Showing posts with label Strange Facts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Strange Facts. Show all posts

Sunday, October 28, 2012

Never even think of committing SUICIDE



On March 23 the medical examiner viewed the body of Ronald Opus and
concluded that he died from a gunshot wound of the head caused by a shotgun.

Investigation to that point had revealed that the deceased had jumped from
the top of a ten story building with the intent to commit suicide (he
left a note indicating his despondency) . As he passed the 9th floor on the way
down, his life was interrupted by a shotgun blast through a window, killing
him instantly. Neither the shooter nor the deceased was aware that a safety
net had been erected at the 8th floor level to protect some window washers
and that the deceased would not have been able to complete his intent to
commit suicide because of this.

Ordinarily, a person who starts into motion the events with a suicide intent
ultimately commits suicide even though the mechanism might be not what he
intended. That he was shot on the way to certain death nine stories below
probably would not change his mode of death from suicide to homicide. But
the fact that his suicide intent would not have been achieved under any
circumstance caused the medical examiner to feel that he had homicide on his
hands.

Further investigation led to the discovery that the room on the 9th floor
from whence the shotgun blast emanated was occupied by an elderly man and
his wife. He was threatening her with the shotgun because of an
inter-spousal spat and became so upset that he could not hold the shotgun
straight. Therefore, when he pulled the trigger, he completely missed his
wife and the pellets went through the window striking the deceased.

When one intends to kill subject A, but kills subject B in the attempt, one
is guilty of the murder of subject B. The old man was confronted with this
conclusion, but both he and his wife were adamant in stating that neither
knew that the shotgun was loaded. It was the longtime habit of the old man
to threaten his wife with an unloaded shotgun.  He had no intent to murder
her; therefore, the killing of the deceased appeared then to be accident.
That is, the gun had been accidentally loaded.

But *further* investigation turned up a witness that their son was seen
loading the shotgun approximately six weeks prior to the fatal accident. That
investigation showed that the mother (the old lady) had cut off her son's
financial support and her son, knowing the propensity of his father to use
the shotgun threateningly, loaded the gun with the expectation that the
father would shoot his mother. The case now becomes one of murder on the part
of the son for the death of Ronald Opus.

Further investigation revealed that the son became increasingly despondent
over the failure of his attempt to get his mother murdered. This led him to
jump off the ten story building on March 23, only to be killed by a shotgun
blast through a 9th story window.

The medical examiner closed the case as a suicide.

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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Some interesting facts..........



A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.










































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Some universal facts.......



The earth is over 330,000 times smaller than the sun.
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The Earth is 4.5 billion years old.
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71% of the Earthâs surface is covered with water.
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Jupiter is a planet made entirely of gases.
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Pluto is the smallest planet in our solar system, and the farthest of the planets away from the sun.
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There are over six billion people living on Earth!
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The first animal sent up to outer space was a dog.
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The Earth is 93 million miles away from the sun.
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97% of the earth's water is undrinkable!
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A giant game of cosmic pool was played when the solar system was first formed billions of years ago. Neptune was hit by an asteroid so big it was knocked sideways on its axis. It orbits with one pole pointed at the sun. 
Venus was hit so hard it is almost upside down and is the only planet to spin backwards on its axis. 
And most astronomers believe the Moon was formed when an asteroid almost the size of Mars hit Earth and shot debris into orbit. I wonder who won the game and when is the next tournament?
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When you think you're standing still remember this fact. Even though you don't feel it, our entire local group of galaxies is moving at about one million miles per hour toward another galaxy group called the Virgo Cluster.
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Scientist believe that diamond rains occur on Neptune and Uranus. The heart of these planets may be a layer of diamonds hundreds of miles thick.
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Jupiter's giant red spot is like a tornado and it is 3 times bigger than the earth.
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The largest crater on the moon measures 183 miles across.
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Astronomers know Mars is a backwards planet. Once a year, for several days, it appears to move backwards in its orbit. This is actually an optical illusion when the faster orbit of Earth races past Mars.
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The farthest you can see with the naked eye is 2.4 million light years away! (140,000,000, 000,000,000, 000 miles.) That's the distance to the giant Andromeda Galaxy. You can see it easily as a dim, large gray "cloud" almost directly overhead in a clear night sky.
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Australia is the only continent on earth without an active volcano.
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If you could live on the planet Mercury, a year would only last 88 days.

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Friday, March 23, 2012

Knowledge..........................


1.  Q: Why are many coin banks shaped like pigs? )(Piggy Bank)
     A: Long ago, dishes and cookware in  Europe were made 
      of a dense orange clay called 'pygg'. When people saved 
      coins in jars made of this clay, the jars became known as
     'pygg banks.' When an English potter misunderstood the word, 
      he made a bank that resembled a pig. And it caught on.

2.  Q: Did you ever wonder why dimes, quarters and half 
           dollars have notches, while pennies and nickels do not?
     A: The US Mint began putting notches on the edges of coins
           containing gold and silver to discourage holders from 
           shaving off small quantities of the precious metals.  Dimes,
           quarters and half dollars are notched because they used 
           to contain silver. Pennies and nickels aren't notched 
           because the metals they contain are not valuable enough 
           to shave.

3.  Q: Why do men's clothes have buttons on the right 
           while women's clothes have buttons on the left?
     A: When buttons were invented, they were very expensive 
           and worn primarily by the rich. Because wealthy women 
           were dressed by maids, dressmakers put the buttons on 
           the maid's right! Since most people are right-handed, 
           it is easier to push buttons on the right through holes on the left      
         and that's where women's buttons have remained since.

4.  Q. Why do X's at the end of a letter signify kisses?
     A: In the Middle Ages, when many people were unable to 
           read or write, documents were often signed using an X. 
           Kissing the X represented an oath to fulfill obligations 
           specified in the document. The X and the kiss eventually 
           became synonymous.

5.  Q: Why is shifting responsibility to someone else called 
          'passing the buck'?
     A: In card games, it was once customary to pass an item, 
          called a buck, from player to player to indicate whose turn 
          it was to deal. If a player did not wish to assume the  
          responsibility, he would 'pass the buck' to the next player.

6.  Q: Why do people clink their glasses before drinking a toast?
     A: It used to be common for someone to try to kill an enemy   
          by offering him a poisoned drink. To prove to a guest that 
          a drink was safe, it became customary for a guest to pour a 
          small amount of his drink into the glass of the host. Both 
         men would drink it simultaneously. When a guest trusted 
          his host,he would then just touch or clink the host's 
          glass with his own.

7.  Q: Why are people in the public eye said to be 'in the limelight'?
     A: Invented in 1825, limelight was used in lighthouses and 
           stage lighting by burning a cylinder of lime which produced 
           a brilliant light. In the theatre, performers on stage 'in the 
           limelight' were seen by the audience to be the center of attention.

8.  Q: Why do ships and aircraft in trouble use 'mayday' as their 
           call for help? (MAYDAY)
     A: This comes from the French word m'aidez - meaning 
           'help me' and is pronounced 'mayday.'

9.  Q: Why is someone who is feeling great 'on cloud nine'?
     A: Types of clouds are numbered according to the altitudes 
           they attain, with nine being the highest cloud. If someone 
           is said to be on cloud nine, that person is floating well 
           above worldly cares.

10.  Q: Why are zero scores in tennis called 'love'?
       A: In  France, where tennis first became popular, a big, 
             round zero on the scoreboard looked like an egg and 
             was called  'l'oeuf,'  which is French for 'egg.'    
           When tennis was introduced in the US, Americans 
            pronounced it  'love.'

11.  Q: In golf, where did the term 'Caddie' come from?
       A. When Mary, later Queen of Scots, went to France as a 
             young girl (for education & survival), Louis, King of France, 
             learned that she loved the Scot game 'golf.' So he had the 
             first golf course outside of Scotland built for her enjoyment. 
             To make sure she was properly chaperoned (and guarded) 
             while she played, Louis hired cadets from a military school 
             to accompany her. Mary liked this a lot and when she returned 
             to Scotland (not a very good idea in the long run), she took 
             the practice with her.  In French, the word cadet is 
             pronounced 'ca-day' and the Scots changed it into 'caddie.'

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