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A Vietnamese woman "aged" 50 years in a few DAYS!



Nguyen Thi Phuong switched her medicine to treat an allergic reaction to seafood. She was only 23, and what she didn't know was that this would cause her skin to become sagged and wrinkly within a few days!


Doctors are still trying to figure out what happened. Their best theory is that she has a rare syndrome called Lipodystrophy. This syndrome causes the fatty tissue beneath the skin to disappear and make the skin saggy because it's still growing!


While they're still testing to see what the cause to her problem is, doctors think they might be able to restore about 50 to 70% of her skin. As of now, she still has the voice of a young woman, as well as black hair. They're the only visible signs that she's not 73!

 

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A proposed amendment to the US constitution would have put any act of war up to popular vote!


Imagine how different US history would have been if this 1916 proposal would have gone through. The proposal went even further and said that any person who voted "Yes" would automatically be enlisted into the army! Of course, the US constitution is extremely hard to change, and the success rate of amendments is less than 1% so it failed to pass. Here's a few other interesting (aka crazy) proposed amendments: 

 

• 1876: an attempt to abolish the United States Senate

• 1893: renaming this nation the “United States of the Earth”

• 1912: making marriage between races illegal

 

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This Land is Your Land was intended as the Anti- God Bless America!



These songs are some of the most famous American folk songs. God Bless America was written in 1918, but in 1938,a revised version of it became singer Kate Smith's signature song and a huge hit on the radio.

 

By 1940, Woodie Guthrie was tired of hearing it played on the radio, because he considered the lyrics to the song to be unrealistic and smug, so he decided to write his own version. He originally called it "God Bless America for Me," and eventually became "This Land is Your Land."

 

Check out the lyrics to This Land is Your Land and God Bless America. Does knowing this change the way you interpret each song? Tell us in the comments!

 

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The girlfriend of the founder of Match.com dumped him... for a man she met on Match.com!


Online dating is quickly becoming one of the most acceptable ways to start relationships. Match.com alone (a pay site) has over 1.8 million registered users! The site uses a complex algorithm that suggests people based not only on what people say they're looking for (hair color, age etc) but also on their browsing behavior on the site!

 

However, there was a time when online dating had a very negative connotation. Back in 1995, Gary Kremen saw potential for online dating and created Match.com. He faced a problem very early on... most people weren't dating online. He had EVERYONE on the company create a profile, including himself and his girlfriend, despite the fact that they were in a relationship. 

 

While this may have helped the company grow the number of users, it also backfired for Kremen. His girlfriend met another man on Match.com and left him for him! Kremen later said that while it was painful, at least it showed him that the site worked! What an optimist!

 

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There's a logic test that only 1 in 10 people get right!


 

It's called the Wason selection test. The test is this simple question with the picture to the right: 

 

Which card(s) must you turn over in order to test the truth of the proposition that if a card shows an even number on one face, then its opposite face is red?

 

The test is considered failed if you ask to flip a card that shouldn't be flipped or you don't flip a card that needs to be flipped. When it was first devised in 1966, psychologist Peter Wason found that over 90% of the people were not able to answer! The results were later replicated in 1993. 

 

Evolutionary psychologists think that the reason so many people fail is because it's such an abstract test. When they replaced the colors and numbers for more real-life things like drinking and being underage, people had a much higher success hit. 

 

If you want to see the answer, check out the source

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