AMAZING MIND BLOWING FACTS 2

1. Some Civil War soldiers had wounds that glowed in the dark

After the Battle of Shiloh in 1862, which left 3,000 dead and 16,000 injured, there weren’t enough medics on either side to aid the wounded. Infection wasn’t well understood at that time, and so soldiers were very prone to infections.

Many of the soldiers died due to problems that could be easily cured today. Some of the soldiers sat in the mud waiting for medics. When night fell, they realized their wounds were casting a faint light. Stranger still, those exhibiting the glowing wounds turned out to have a much better survival rate than those not.

For over a hundred years after, this mysterious phenomenon was called Angel’s Glow. In 2001, its secret was cracked. It turns out bacteria were to blame.

Photorhabdus luminescens is a type of bacteria that lives in the guts of nematodes. Nematodes hunt down insect larvae, burrow into their bodies, and then vomit the bacteria into the larvae hosts. There, the bacteria (which glow in the dark) begin producing chemicals that kill the larvae and all other microorganisms inside it.

It turns out those nematodes were to blame for Angel’s Glow and its related survival rate. The bacteria had essentially killed all other harmful infectants in the wounds which increased survival and decreased infection, and its bioluminescence had produced the strange glow effect.


2. Tanning is as cancer-causing as plutonium! 

It is a well-known fact that tanning is dangerous and hazardous to your health. What many don’t realize is that the risk to your health is extreme. Tanning is actually as likely to cause cancer as plutonium is, and plutonium is highly radioactive! Using a tanning bed before the age of 30 will increase your risk of melanoma, one of the most deadly skin cancers, by 75%.


In the United States, melanoma kills about 8,650 people yearly. Additionally, your chance of getting squamous cell carcinoma is 2.5 times as likely and your chance of getting basal cell carcinoma increases by 1.5 times. With risks associated with tanning so high, it’s crazy how many people make tanning a part of their regular routine. Somewhere along the lines having tan skin became a mark of beauty and it’s costing lives!


Organizations and lawmakers are trying to lower the amount of people using tanning beds by raising awareness and creating laws. In many states, people are campaigning to ban people under the age of 18 from using tanning beds. In Wisconsin, young people under the age of 16 are not allowed to go tanning. Do you think these laws are a good way of keeping people healthy?


3. Oranges are green, not orange when grown in a tropical climate!

An orange is not a naturally occurring fruit , but rather a crossbreed of the tangerine and the pomelo. The first oranges were created in southeast Asia, where they would have been green rather than orange in colour.

The reason why oranges are green in a tropical climate is because the weather rarely gets cold. Because of the lack of cool weather, the chlorophyll remains in the skin of the orange, keeping it green. When an orange is exposed to cool weather while still on the branch it turns to orange. And orange that is left on the tree can change between green and orange several times depending on the weather.

This change of colors also means it’s impossible to tell if an orange is ripe. Fortunately for us, you don’t have to pay attention to if an orange is ripe. It remains ripe for a long time, even if left on the branch until the next season. The reason all of our oranges are orange in the store is because oranges are generally grown in subtropical areas, which means that they are exposed to cold weather. Oranges were able to give their name to the color because, most oranges are actually orange and not green.

SOURCE : OMG Facts

Wear & Care Instructions for football boots

A. Leather Care Instructions

- Use warm water and a cloth to remove large chunks of soil in between the boots.
- To dry your shoes , fill them up with newspaper. Place the boots in a dry place.
- When storing the boots use a boot tree which will help to maintain their shape.
- Do not put the boots in a bag after washing.
- Do not expose the boots do direct sunlight or a near heat source like an oven.

B. Synthetic / Textile Care Instructions

- Wash upper with cold water and dry.
- Do not expose the boots to direct sunlight or a near heat source after washing.
- Do not use solvent based products such as leather cream as they will damage the surface.

TYPES OF FOOTBALL BOOT  OUTSOLES

SG  : For wet , soft natural grounds / grass pitches
FG  : For dry grass pitches , natural ground
HG  : For very hard and dry natural ground or cinder surface
AG  : For the latest generation of artificial turf
MG : For all hard natural ground and the latest generation of artificial turf pitches
TF   : For hard pitch and artificial turf
IN   : For indoor hall surfaces

FOOTBALL

Football is an amazing sport to play but nevertheless , it acquires a lot of skill and speed. One of the ways you can increase your running capacity is by doing Dual Exercise.Start off by running back and forth from two points in the range of 8 yards or more. If you can do that for about twenty to thirty times , then your ready for the next step. Use something heavy , like heavy shoes or weights attached to your shoe , and re-run the course. 


As a safety precaution , you should start off jogging first then running to avoid muscle aches. Keep on running until you can run at your top speed with the weights. Remember to also eat a lot of protein and carbohydrates as they will help in this exercise.


Once you have accomplished that , then you can start training your skills into becoming a better player.
Skills at optimum can help you a lot and if mastered can make you unstoppable. One of the main skills you should learn is dribbling. 


Dribbling can be quite tricky and risky. However it is not impossible to pull off an amazing dribbling skill. The key to dribbling quickly is not to use more power but to make contact more frequently by moving the feet faster. You can start of with a simple dribble like keeping the ball in between your legs and moving your legs front and back following the position of the ball while running frontwards.

Dribbling the ball in between your legs.

After you are able to learn a dribbling skill , you should improve it further before training a new skill. Here are some of the steps I got from wikihow.com on how to improve your dribbling skill / skills :


1. One of the best processes to get good at dribbling is to play soccer with a tennis ball, or other smaller ball.
2. Make sure to use all the surfaces of your foot.
3. Change the pace.
4. Improve your weak foot.
5. Use your body to protect the ball.


Once you have gained a huge power of speed and swift dribbling then you must finally learn to finish it off with a beautiful goal. There are many factors to take in hand and many ways to improve these factors.
Example :


1. Accuracy
    - this can help you a lot in scoring a right on target goal. Start off by placing a bottle filled with sand or water at about 5-6 yards away. Stand at the same point and try to hit the bottle down using your right leg first and then the left leg. After you are able to hit the bottle down several times then increase the range and keep hitting the bottle down until you are able to hit it from a whole fields range.


2. Power
    - power is a vital priority in scoring a goal from afar. First of all , try striking the wall a few hundred times with your right leg and your left leg alternately. As you go on , increase the range from the wall and time your kicks to reach the wall as fast as 1-5 second. After you are able to beat the hell out of the ball from a small range , then move on until you are able to kick as hard and fast ad possible from a whole fields range.


I hope this review will be able to help young football players out there to one day become a hell of a player.
Good luck to all of you.

Jell-O Firecrackers –from Kraft Foods


Ingredients:

1-1/3 cups boiling water, divided

1 package (3 oz.) JELL-O Berry Blue Flavor Gelatin
1 package (3 oz.) JELL-O Cherry Flavor Gelatin
1 envelope KNOX Unflavored Gelatine
1 cup milk, divided
3 Tbsp. sugar
1/2 tsp. vanilla
20 maraschino cherries with stems, well drained, patted dry


Directions:


Add 2/3 cups of boiling water to berry gelatin and mix in small bowl , stir for 2 minutes until completely  dissolved. Repeat with cherry gelatin mix. Cool for about 5 - 10 minutes.


Meanwhile , sprinkle unflavored gelatine over 1/4 cup of milk in medium bowl and let it stand for 5 minutes. Bring remaining milk to boil in saucepan. Remove from heat and stir in sugar and vanilla. Add to plain gelatin mixture. Stir until gelatine is completely dissolved. Cool for10 minutes.


Spoon some berry gelatin into 20 (1-oz.) plastic shot glasses sprayed lightly with cooking spray, adding about 2 tsp. to each. Refrigerate for 15 minutes or until set but not firm.


Top with unflavored gelatine mixture, adding about 2 tsp to each cup. Refrigerate for 10 minutes. Insert cherry, stem end up, into white gelatine layer in each cup. Then refrigerate for 2 minutes.


Cover with cherry gelatin, adding about 2 tsp to each cup. Refrigerate for 2 hours or until firm. Remove from cups before serving.

Another amazing recipe from Foodgawker :

Toasted Sesame Ginger Salmon

1 1/2 pounds raw salmon

1/4 cup olive oil

2 tablespoons toasted sesame oil

2 tablespoons rice vinegar

2 tablespoons brown sugar

2 tablespoon soy sauce

2 garlic cloves, grated

1 tablespoons freshly grated ginger

1-2 tablespoons toasted sesame seeds

4 green onions, sliced

Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil and place a wire rack over top. Spray the rack with nonstick spray.

In a large bowl or baking dish, combine olive oil, sesame oil, soy sauce, garlic, ginger, vinegar, brown sugar and whisk well until combined. Add salmon to the dish or place everything in a ziplock bag, then refrigerate and marinate for 30 minutes.

Preheat the broiler in your oven. (Or preheat your grill, etc if you prefer to use something else.)

Remove salmon with kitchen tongs and place directly on the wire rack. Sprinkle with a little bit of salt and pepper, then place directly under the broiler. Cook for 10-12 minutes, depending on the salmon’s thickness (our’s was just about an inch thick), until opaque and easily flakable with a fork. You can flip the salmon halfway through cooking if desired.

Remove and serve immediately, with a sprinkling of toasted sesame seeds, green onions and the glaze below.

Sesame Ginger Honey Glaze

1/4 cup honey

1 teaspoon toasted sesame oil

1 teaspoon soy sauce

1/2 teaspoon freshly grated ginger

1/2 teaspoons toasted sesame seeds

Combine all ingredients in a bowl and whisk until smooth. Pour over salmon.

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THE LIFE CYCLE OF A TIGER

About 103 days after mating with a male tiger , the female tigress will give birth to a litter of 2 to 3 cubs and sometimes up to 7 cubs which are born blind and helpless. The females rear them alone, sheltering them in dens such as thickets and rocky crevices. The father of the cubs generally takes no part in rearing them. Unrelated wandering male tigers may even kill cubs to make the female receptive, since the tigress may give birth to another litter within 5 months if the cubs of the previous litter are lost.

The female tigress looks after her babies and feeds them milk for up to 8 weeks. The chances of tiger cubs surviving without their mother's milk is very slim. In most cases , the tigress will defend her cubs against mostly any animal even a male tiger.

After that , she teaches them how to hunt. The cubs will start gaining their agility and speed through hunting. They will watch first how their mother hunts and captures a prey and then practice themselves. The cubs will stay with their mother for up to 3 years before they will go on leaving in a solitary environment.