The hospital, which helps you to die

New facilities open to the Hague is called Levenseinde kliniek, translated "clinic to end of life." In her work doctors who contact the Dutch, who want to die before the "natural death" and offered them their professional services. The Netherlands is, otherwise, a country about the possibility of euthanasia law passed 10 years ago. The clinic was a great success the Dutch lobby group "right to die", which describes itself as "the world's largest association that advocates the choice of euthanasia". At the head of the association's is doctor Petra de Jong, a specialist in pulmonary disease. So much for the Hippocratic Oath.

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Classical music helps the transplanted heart

Japanese scientists have found that "classical music helps the transplanted heart". In Tokyo Džantando University Hospital, mice was transplanted heart, let the serious and pop music, and the little patients who listened to Verdi's "La Traviata" and Mozart's concert music has lived twice as long. 


Specifically, mice with a transplanted heart, listening to Verdi lived 26 days, and Mozart's listeners have lived over 20 days. Patients who listened to Irish pop-star Agnew lived 11 days, and the unfortunates showered with monotonous music only 7 days.

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Most children born to one woman

The official record for most children born to one woman is an astonishing 69! From 1725 to 1765, the first wife of Feodor Vassilyv (a Russian peasant) endured 27 pregnancies while producing 4 sets of quadruplets, 7 sets of triplets, and 16 pairs of twins. Of the 69 total babies conceived, 67 of them survived infancy.

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"F" is for front

In the United States it is illegal to operate a train that does not have an “F” painted on the front.  Apparently without that “F” we all might not know where the front of the train is.

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iIt's against the law to tickle a girl under her chin

In Newport, Virginia it's against the law to tickle a girl under her chin with a feather duster in order to get her attention.

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It is forbidden to die

Since the start of the March, 2012 it is illegal to die in a village in Naples, Italy. Unfortunately, two senior citizens were ignored in the law and died.

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The reason wheels seem to spin backwards on a camera

The reason wheels seem to spin backwards on a camera is because when you film something, you are really taking a series of still images and then replaying them so fast that the eye is fooled into thinking it is a continuous stream of images. The eye can see about 12-14 frames per second. Because of a physical law called the Nyquist Sampling Theorem you need to display frames twice as fast as the eye can see to fool it into seeing it as a continuous movie (Nyquist showed mathematically why that is true). So, imagine you have a wheel that is spinning exactly once every second. If you took a picture at the same rate, it would look like it is standing still. That's because it rotates exactly once every time you take a picture. Now take a picture just a little bit faster than 1 per second. Now every time you take a picture, the wheel has not quite made it all the way around; maybe it will have gone 350 degrees around, so it's 10 degrees behind the first frame. The next frame it will have gone another 350 degrees, making it now 20 degrees behind the first frame, and so on. When you play the film back, it will look like the wheel is moving backwards, even though you know it was going forwards. The opposite effect happens when you take pictures a bit slower than the rotation rate. It gets more complicated when the wheel does not rotate at a constant rate, like when a car accelerates. The next time you watch TV or go to the movies, watch the wheels as a car speeds up. You might see the wheel appear to go backwards, them stop, then go forwards, all while the car is moving forwards.

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