16-year-old Adrien Locatelli, from Grenoble, France, has succeeded in transcribing the book of Genesis and the Quran into DNA and injecting them into his body. He injected the text of the books in each thigh.
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23-year-old man stuck in mind-numbing deja vu loop – relives each moment over and over again for 8 years
It’s a fairly rare occurrence but something all of us experience from time to time. That unusually strong sensation that you’ve been there before or already experienced what you’re doing (or reading) in the present time – it’s called déjà vu. For most people, the feeling passes quickly leaving us slightly frightened and more often,…
That time a man fighting a fire died after accidentally swallowing molten lead (1755).
A no more unusual circumstance than swallowing molten metal can be imagined but in fact, there are many recorded cases of people swallowing molten metals. After a particularly unusual incident in Plymouth, a series of experiments were conducted on dogs, cats, and fowl to determine the effects of swallowing molten material. The case that sparked…
Mysterious Sleeping Beauty illness hits Soviet village – residents collapse where they stand and sleep for days on end.
Scientists are unclear what is causing the mysterious Sleeping Beauty sleep syndrome that has affected dozens of villagers in the Kalachi village and nearby Soviet town of Krasnogorsk. Beginning in the spring of 2013, Villagers began seeking medical help for fatigue, weakness, drowsiness, loss of coordination, partial memory loss, and occasionally even hallucinations. By January…
A kid’s (or immature adult’s) guide to X-Rays.
X-Rays are really quite amazing when you really think about it. I mean, come on guys, it lets you see right through things! Image how much fun it would be to have x-ray vision. When dad left for work you could snicker about his polka-dotted boxer underwear. At Wal-Mart you could look at closed-up stuff…
Man develops star-shaped cataract eyes after 14,000-volt electrical shock.
A California man has developed bizarre star-shaped cataracts in both of his eyes after suffering an electrical injury whereby 14,000 volts of electricity passed through his body. According to the New England Journal of Medicine, the 42-year-old electrician was working when his left shoulder accidentally came into contact with 14,000 volts of electricity. The massive…
African “muti murders” – organs harvested from live (or dead) victims and sold for good luck and black magic spells
It’s a dirty little secret in South Africa, one that as of 2010, is once again on the rise. Called “muti murders” or “medicine murders” (sometimes termed “ritual murder” or muthi-murder), it takes its name from the Zulu word “muti”, the term for traditional black magic medicines that utilize human body parts and flesh as…
UK girl has been hiccupping every two seconds for the past three months – doctors are baffled
In January 2013, 13-years-old Emily Marsh, from the United Kingdom, was on her way to math class when she began to hiccup. At first it was funny but now, three months later, not so much. Emily hiccups every 2 seconds and has been hiccuping continuously, even while she sleeps, for over three months. The physical…
Natasha Demkina – Russian girl with X-Ray eyes claims she can see inside the human body (down to the cellular level).
Natasha Demkina, from Saransk, Russia, has a special gift, a gift that her parents have known about since she was a child but up until the mid-2000’s, kept secret from the world. Her eerie ability to see inside of human bodies has been demonstrated before witnesses time and time again. Experts say nobody since Edgar…