Wierd World 1

The world is a wierd place. We're always talking about wanting to meet aliens, and trying to make new great discoveries. But thiers so many great things that happen around us that we know very little about, simply because it's not given that much coverage.
In this series of blogs i'm going to just give you few bits of information that i thought were interesting, or just a bit odd.
Some are odd stories that you may not know, others are just wierd world records that show some of the strange things in our world.

Hand Amputations
Some guy from New Zealand called Clint Hallam has had his right hand aputated 3 times!
He was the first ever recipient of a hand transplant. He lost his original hand after an accident with a circular saw in 1984.
Unfortunatly, after the transplant, it became infected and had to be removed again in 1988.
They tried another transplant in September 1998 which took 13 hours. For two years after this, he was able to move his hand and even write with it.
But for some reason Hallam voluntarily stopped taking his immunosuppressive drugs. Clint then requested to have it amputated again in 2001.

What's your name again?
Here's one of the world's longest names, which someone changed to by deed poll--

Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk And The Flash Combined
Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/673833-top-10-weird-world-records#ixzz1HvgzISJ6

Some Random Facts

- The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing
- A cow has four stomachs
- Toto the dog was paid $125 a week for his work in The Wizard of Oz.
- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
- The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

Thanks for reading, hope you learnt something new =D

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