RANDOM FACT #38 - Over 230 TEETH Were Removed From a Teenage Boy in India...

Poor kid. That's a lot of teeth! And we complain when we have to remove one or two. 
Every major news site and more was carrying this story at the time in 2014...

Composite odontoma is a rare defect in humans in which a benign tumor forms in the mouth, generally as a result of the abnormal growth of a single tooth, causing additional teeth to form within the tumor. Most cases have been found in the upper jaw of patients. Unchecked growth of the tumor can make swallowing and eating difficult, and can also lead to grotesque facial swelling.

In most cases, surgery is required to remove the extra teeth and tumorous tissue. Prior to 2014, the maximum recorded number of teeth removed in such an operation was 37. However, in July 2014 Ashiq Gavai, a 17-year-old boy in India, suffered from an extreme case of composite odontoma in his lower jaw, which required the removal of more than 232 teeth altogether. The surgery was performed by Dr. Sunanda Dhiware, head of Mumbai's JJ Hospital's dental department in India.

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According to the BBC, the teenager had been suffering for 18 months with this condition before travelling to the city from his village seeking help, after local doctors failed to identify the cause of the problem.
Doctors have described his condition as "very rare" and "a world record".

"At first, we couldn't cut it out so we had to use the basic chisel and hammer to take it out.
"Once we opened it, little pearl-like teeth started coming out, one-by-one. Initially, we were collecting them, they were really like small white pearls. But then we started to get tired. We counted 232 teeth," she added.

The surgery conducted involved two surgeons and two assistants.

Ashik now has 28 teeth.

Source(s): wikipedia | bbc

RANDOM FACT #37 - A Chicken Once Lived WITHOUT its HEAD - for 18 Months

Talk about a miracle! Many of you may remember this unbelievable story. The whole thing was intriguing right from the get go. Why did the owner of the chicken screwed up the slaughter? It was not like it was his first time. And after realizing his mistake, why didn't he correct it and finish off the chicken - like most farmers would have likely done. Maybe it was meant to be? We've sure learnt a thing or two since then about the brain and brainstem function - at least in chickens anyways...

Mike the Headless Chicken (April 20, 1945 – March 17, 1947), also known as Miracle Mike, was a Wyandotte chicken that lived for 18 months after his head had been cut off. Although the story was thought by many to be a hoax, the bird's owner took him to the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah to establish the facts.

RANDOM FACT #36 - The DEADLIEST SCHOOL DISASTER in American History Killed HUNDREDS - Most of Them Children

In the mid-1930s, the Great Depression was in full swing, but the London school district was one of the richest in America. A 1930 oil find in Rusk County had boosted the local economy and educational spending grew with it. The London School, a large structure of steel and concrete, was constructed in 1932 at a cost of $1 million (roughly $17.6 million today). The London Wildcats (a play on the term "wildcatter", for an oil prospector) played football in the first stadium in the state to have electric lights.

RANDOM FACT #35 - The CIA Once Used a Bugged Cat to Spy on the Russians...

Everyone likes to eavesdrop on everyone else but at what lengths are willing to go through?
Thanks to some (partially) declassified documents in 2001 from the CIA's Science and Technology Directorate, one can get an idea of just how far. Back in the 60s, the CIA attempted to train a surgically altered cat, wired with transmitting and control devices, to become a mobile, eavesdropping platform...

RANDOM FACT #34 - A 100-YEAR-OLD 'Lifehack' For Cleaning Inside Bottles Used SAND

RANDOM FACT #33 - The RIGHT Lung is Bigger than the LEFT

Each lung is divided into upper and lower lobes. The right lung is larger and heavier than the left lung, which is somewhat smaller in size because of the position of the heart. The upper lobe of the right lung contains another triangular subdivision known as the middle lobe.

The heart is asymmetrical and is more on the left side of the body than on the right. Thus it follows that the left lung is smaller because there’s a heart in the way.

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RANDOM FACT #32 - Swifts can fly ALMOST A YEAR WITHOUT LANDING

“They feed in the air, they mate in the air, they get nest material in the air,” says Susanne Åkesson from Lund University in Sweden. “They can land on nest boxes, branches, or houses, but they can’t really land on the ground.” That's because their wings are too long and their legs are too short to take off from a flat surface. Hence the fittingly-named birds' species name, Apus, which translates to "footless". It's actually safer for them to be up in the air than on the ground.

RANDOM FACT #31 - The Last PUBLIC EXECUTION in the United States was in 1936...

Many scholars maintain that the unprecedented nationwide attention and coverage the execution received caused the United States to outlaw public executions. Therefore, Bethea was the last individual to be hanged publicly in the United States.

RANDOM FACT #30 - 'SLEEPER HIT' is the Term Given to a Film or Music that Becomes SUCCESSFUL Despite Having LITTLE Promotion.

RANDOM FACT #29 - NASA was Once FINED $400 for Littering over Western Australia

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Skylab was the United States' first space station, orbiting Earth from 1973 to 1979, when it fell back to Earth amid huge worldwide media attention. Launched and operated by NASA, Skylab included a workshop, a solar observatory, and other systems necessary for crew survival and scientific experiments. It was launched unmanned by a modified Saturn V rocket, with a weight of 170,000 pounds (77,111 kg). Lifting Skylab into low earth orbit was the final mission and launch of a Saturn V rocket (which was famous for the first--and subsequent--manned moon landings).

RANDOM FACT #28 - Texas' LAST MEAL was Abolished After a REALLY, REALLY LARGE Last Meal That Was Never Eaten

RANDOM FACT #27 - Kangaroos Have THREE VAGINAS

RANDOM FACT #26 - The LARGEST PREHISTORIC MAN-MADE Construction in Europe is...

RANDOM FACT #25 - ASBESTOS Was Once Used in Movies as Fake Snow

RANDOM FACT #24 - The Most LIGHTNING-STRUCK Place on Earth Occurs Over This LAKE in Venezuela

RANDOM FACT #23 - There's an actual WORD for 'The day after tomorrow"...

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RANDOM FACT #22 - An American Dad Named His Sons 'WINNER' and 'LOSER'

RANDOM FACT #21 - The LARGEST STONE Ever MOVED BY MAN Weighed 1250 Tonnes

RANDOM FACT #20 - The WICKED BIBLE is so called Due to a Printing Error in the Ten Commandments

RANDOM FACT #19 - In some Countries, ANESTHESIA is REQUIRED Before Performing Surgery on Octopuses

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