Oddities, curiousities and strangness in history

A 22-year-old woman placed a potato in her vagina after her mother told her it was a fail proof contraceptive method.

After experiencing pain in her abdominal area, the Columbian woman went to a local hospital to get help.

Embarrassed, she told nurses she had put a potato into her vagina two weeks ago, because she was advised it would prevent pregnancy. According to Columbiareports.co, the potato germinated and grew roots. The nurse who attended to the woman found the roots had visibly emerged from her vagina. The potato was eventually removed, non surgically.

Sex education is a taboo subject in the conservative Columbian community after families boycotted classes aimed at informing the youth on such topics.

Pettytyrant101 wrote:I have a theory about that constructed on the Scottish referendum, and my cats. No really, stay with me on this.

During the referendum it was all people talked about, it even effected my mood, it altered the immediate environment- signs went up, vans went about blaring messages from loud speakers.
And my cats lived through that period. They saw the changes in the street outside, the flags, the banners, they heard the announcements being made and hid from the vans under hedges when they went by.
But despite the referendum having a physical and tangible effect on their environment- the had no comprehension of it or what was going on.
I see humans like that. There are almost certainly things which are right there in plain sight in front of us, even effecting us, but we cant grasp it or comprehend it. We cant put the pieces together and see that they are part of a single thing occurring. They are beyond our scope.

Pettytyrant101 wrote:'Scientists believe they have discovered the origin of copulation.
An international team of researchers says a fish called Microbrachius dicki (seriously?!) is the first-known animal to stop reproducing by spawning and instead mate by having sex.

And where did all this sex begin I hear you ask? Where else of course-

'The primitive bony fish, which was about 8cm long, lived in ancient lakes about 385 million years ago in what is now Scotland.'

Yup you can add sex to the list of Sottish inventions!

Pettytyrant101 wrote:'Scientists believe they have discovered the origin of copulation.
An international team of researchers says a fish called Microbrachius dicki (seriously?!) is the first-known animal to stop reproducing by spawning and instead mate by having sex.

And where did all this sex begin I hear you ask? Where else of course-

'The primitive bony fish, which was about 8cm long, lived in ancient lakes about 385 million years ago in what is now Scotland.'

Yup you can add sex to the list of Sottish inventions!

In the 1960s, researchers unearthed two gigantic dinosaur arms. For decades, scientists have speculated about what kind of beast they belonged to.

Now, the rest of the dinosaur's body has been unearthed, and researchers say that the creature is even more bizarre than they had thought.

They say it was huge, with a beak, a humped back and giant, hoofed feet.

The study is published in the journal Nature.

Lead researcher Yuong-Nam Lee, from South Korea's Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (Kigam), said: "It turned out to be one of the weirdest dinosaurs, it's weird beyond our imagination."

Slow mover

For half a century, all that was known about this dinosaur was that it had enormous forearms, measuring 2.4m-long (8ft) and tipped with three giant claws.

Its name Deinocheirus mirificus means unusual, horrible hands. In various reconstructions, it has been imagined as anything from a T. rex-type predator grasping at prey with its claws, to a giant, sloth-like climber, using its arms to dangle from trees.

But the discovery of two nearly complete skeletons in Mongolia have finally laid this speculation to rest.

The international research team says the beast was very large, measuring about 11m (36ft) long and weighing six tonnes.

It had an elongated head with a duck-like beak, and a large humped sail on its back.

Its legs were short and stumpy, but its feet were very large with hooves, which would have prevented it from sinking into the boggy wetlands where it lived.

The researchers think that the beast was probably a very slow mover. The contents of its stomach suggest that it ate plants and fish.

Dr Yuong-Nam Lee said: "We did not know their function before, but the long forearms with giant claws may have been used for digging and gathering herbaceous plants in freshwater habitats."

Commenting on the research Prof John Hutchinson, a palaeontologist from the UK's Royal Veterinary College, said: "Many dinosaur fans have seen pictures of the 8ft-long arms and hands, and they really are amazing and wonderful. People were really wondering what the rest of this animal looked like.

"Now we know, and it's just so freaking weird - we never would have expected this animal to look so bizarre.

"It really is shocking to see how many weird features it has. It changes our view of what kind of forms dinosaurs can even take."

“down below the mines and sea ooze and fake fossil bones put there by a Creator with nothing better to do than upset archeologists and give them silly ideas.”