Page 3 - Other Facts

Two black Nigerian parents had a blonde-haired, blue eyed, white baby!

You’re probably thinking that this is completely impossible, but it actually happened! The husband says he knows that it’s his baby because even if his wife had cheated on him the baby couldn’t look completely white.

In fact if you had never seen the parents, nothing would look odd about the child, then when she’s placed next to her black parents, the blonde-haired, blue-eyed, white baby looks astounding! Genetics experts aren’t entirely sure how this occurred, but they have several theories. T

he first is that the baby has a rare genetic mutation that is entirely unique to her. If this were the case, the gene would likely be passed on to her children. The second theory is that a long dormant white gene was present in one of the parents, which just surfaced now.

The third theory is that she has a rare form of albino in which she didn’t lose all of her pigment, but had a slight genetic mutation. This theory proposes that her skin will likely darken as she gets older!

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Blind-from-birth men prefer female figures with the same waist-to-hip ratio as sighted men do!

A psychologist at Radboud University in the Netherlands, along with his student and collaborator, Sander Arons, clothed 2 plastic women identically in tight black tops and dark skirts and then drove them to the homes of blind men.

The researcher set one so that they have a waist-to-hip ratio of 0.7 and the other so that they have a vase to hip ratio of 0.84. The lower ratio represents an ideal; a slim but curvy physique. The higher ratio represents the shape of an average woman.

The blind men were told to touch the women and focus their hands on their waist and hips. The breasts on both figures were the same in case the men reached too high. They were then told to score the attractiveness of the bodies. Like a majority of sighted men, they preferred the mannequins with the 0.7 ratio.

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There are still 3 coded messages from WWII that haven't been decrypted yet, but we are still working on them!

Over the years codes have become increasingly more complex and difficult to crack. It was the birth of computers that mandated the increase in difficulty when creating codes because traditional codes could be broken within minutes once entered into a computer.

During World War II, codes were an important aspect of war for communication and both sides made huge efforts to create the best system and crack the opposing sides information to save the lives of their soldiers. Strangely there were three German codes that the Allied forces were unable to crack during the war and have so intrigued code enthusiast that they are still being studied today!

The codes date back to 1942 and were created by various German encryption techniques. Today, massive computer data bases are searching for what these codes meant, and two have actually been deciphered fairly accurately since new technology was used in 1995. Both were coordinates for German U-boat attacks on British forces, which, if cracked on time, could have saved important lives. The last is yet to be translated, even with supercomputers.

They are so difficult to crack because they were created with plugboards, which swapped pairs of letters during the encoding process and greatly increased the number of possible encryptions. Also, some of the letters are believed to be missing making it even more difficult to decipher the last code!

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An artist put on an art exhibit that nearly killed him!

Over the years, art has become a lot more daring. The definition of art has broadened and the limits of artists have been stretched. Chris Burden is a big fan in involving himself in his art; essentially, being both the artist and the subject matter (kind of like in a selfie). However, his artwork is not immortalized on canvas or in stone; it’s experienced.

He once asked his friend to shoot him with a rifle (which he did) and nailed himself to a car in the name of art. This most notorious piece was one he produced in 1975. He placed himself under a glass sheet next to a clock and lay there completely immobile in a notorious art gallery. He intended not to move until a visitor of the gallery helped him. He lay there for two days-without any water, and having pooped in his pants-and no one did more than politely nod at him. Eventually, a gallery attendant got nervous and left a glass of water next to him, at which point he broke down and ended the show.

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Publications in Israel have to say if a fashion model was made thinner using Photoshop!

A new law in Israel has banned the use of underweight models in advertising and the catwalk and requires adverts to state if an image has been altered to make a model appear thinner. The idea behind the bill is that images of extreme thinness are to blame for the eating disorders in young girls in the country.

Models in Israel are now required to have a BMI of no less than 18.5. Not only this, but they need to have an up-to-date doctor’s report certifying their weight when they go for jobs. There have been some criticisms for this bill.

Some say that the government may be trying to discourage putting weight above health but that’s exactly what they are doing. Many models are naturally thin, and under this new law, completely healthy women who happen to be thin would be disqualified from becoming models.

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