Page 4 - Fun Facts

DC Comics once created a superhero named Dog Welder whose strategy was to weld dead dogs to people's faces!

DC Comics is behind several super hero legends, such as Spider-Man and Superman. They are one of the biggest and most well-known comic companies in the world. Even the best make mistakes though. And DC Comics made one when they created a super hero named Dog Welder.

While Dog Welder is a good guy, his technique for fighting bad guys is not be the prettiest or most effective. He takes dead dogs and welds them to villain's faces. Ouch. Also, gross. Not exactly the super hero we're used to. Some may argue that it actually takes a lot of skill to weld a dog to a human, but the fact remains that it is just disturbing. DC Comics should probably stick with their more typical super heros.

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A 21-year-old managed to win a $300 million arms contract with the US. He's now in jail as a result of it!

Efraim Diveroli wanted to follow in his father's footsteps, and become a weapons dealer. He wanted to live a life of fame and fortune, and what better way to do that than to bid on government weapon contracts? He was able to land a few smaller contracts for around $100,000 - but he wanted to land the mother load of all contracts, which in fact, he did. He was able to outbid the most profitable international weapons dealers.

When signing the contract, Diveroli noticed that one of the conditions of the arrangement that he wasn't allowed to buy any Chinese ammunition - which was a problem for him, because it was much cheaper to buy, and he usually bought his weapons and ammo from China.

Diveroli was now stuck between a rock, and a lengthy prison sentence, and he decided he needed to buy the ammo from China. He sent the ammo to his business partner to be repackaged, and he even told the United States government this is what he was doing - and they gave him the O.K.

Typically, those multi-billion dollar companies that Diveroli was able to outbid looked into his small company, and saw that there was only a handful of employees. The companies made false claims of fraud (based on virtually nothing) which caused the IRS to investigate Diveroli's weapons dealing business.

They discovered the situation with the Chinese ammo, and all the illegal transactions Diveroli had participated in, and arrested him, as well as one of his business partners. His foreign business partner went missing and hasn't been found, and the man who repackaged the Chinese ammunition wound up dead a few weeks after Diveroli's arrest!

You HAVE to read the full story! It's quite incredible!

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A farmer in China grows Buddha-shaped pears!

There have been rare cases of fruit looking like a famous person or god. One Chinese farmer has decided to mass produce such occurrences. By using a plastic mold, Hao Xianzhang grows pears in the shape of Buddha.

Instead of their usual oval shape, these special pears grow in the shape of the tiny, praying god. Imagine a tree of hanging, edible deities.They are sold for 50 yuan or about $7.32. Wonder if those people who buy these pears can bring themselves to eat them?

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Kids in a New Delhi slum quickly learned how to use a computer with no one there to teach them!

Computers are manmade objects. We are not born knowing how to use them. In many ways, there is very little about a computer that it is intuitive. Of course, this depends on your nature. Sugata Mitra may disagree about this though.

As part of Mitra's research as an educator, he and his colleagues installed a networked PC into a the side of a outside facing wall in a slum in New Delhi, India. They then left this "hole in the wall" computer open for the local children to use.

With no training or previous computer knowledge, these slum children were quickly able to figure out how the computer operated. The children worked together to explore the PC and the Internet it was connected to. This experiment spurred Mitra's extensive research on self-organized learning. This research later was the inspiration for the Oscar winning film "Slumdog Millionaire."

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Google Earth may have found lost pyramids in Egypt!

Most people have heard of the Great Pyramids in Giza, Egypt. There are also 115 lesser known pyramids scattered throughout the country. Some of these have been covered by desert sand. Google Earth may have discovered more of these lost pyramids.

Google Earth is a mapping program that combines satellite technology and aerial photography. It started out as a project of the Central Intelligence Agency and was acquired by Google in 2004. Google Earth took images of what appear to be clusters of pyramids. The two sites are about 90 miles apart.

One of the sites has a distinct square shape and is about 140 feet across. It also contains a three small mounds arranged diagonally, which is similar to the Pyramids at Giza. The second site has four mounds. The two largest are about 250 feet across while the smaller two are closer to 100 feet across. If these do end up being pyramids, they will need to be certified and protected by Egyptian authorities.

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