DID YOU KNOW..?? IF NOT THEN NOW YOU KNOW..!!🙃 PART 1 POCHO THE CROCODILE Chito, a fisherman, tour guide, and naturalist from Siquirres, Limón Province, Costa Rica, discovered a dying male crocodile weighing 70 kg (150 lb) on the banks of the Reventazón River in 1989. Upon closer examination, Shedden discovered that the crocodile had been shot in the head through the left eye. The crocodile had been shot by a local cattle farmer, as it was preying on a herd of cows. Shedden took the crocodile home in his boat. For six months, Shedden fed the crocodile 30 kg (66 lb) of chicken and fish a week, sleeping with it at night in his home. Shedden also simulated the chewing of food with his mouth to encourage the crocodile to eat and gave it kisses and hugs while talking to it and petting it. Shedden later stated his belief that providing food alone would not have helped it recover, and that "the crocodile needed my love to regain the will to live". After the crocodile's health improved, Shedden released the crocodile now named 'Pocho' in a nearby river to return it to the wild. The next morning, Shedden awoke to find that the crocodile had followed him home and was sleeping on his veranda. Shedden decided to allow the crocodile to stay, where it lived in the water outside Shedden's home and was considered a member of his family, alongside Shedden's second wife and daughter; Shedden's first wife had left him because he was spending too much time with the crocodile. Shedden eventually trained the crocodile to respond to its own name being called. For more than twenty years, Shedden swam with the crocodile in the river outside his home, mostly at night, talking and playing with Pocho while hugging, kissing and caressing him. Pocho died of natural causes in the water outside Shedden's home in Siquirres on 12 October 2011. Following a public funeral held for the crocodile, which was attended by friends and admirers, Shedden sang to the crocodile whilst holding its 'hand'. Pocho's taxidermied remains are on permanent display behind glass in the Siquirres town museum. #NYK

DID YOU KNOW..?? IF NOT THEN NOW YOU KNOW..!!🙃 PART 2 THE LARGEST GOLD STATUE IN THE WORLD The Golden Buddha, officially titled Phra Phuttha Maha Suwanna Patimakon, commonly known in Thai as Phra Sukhothai Traimit, is a gold Maravijaya Attitude seated Buddharupa statue, with a weight of 5.5 tonnes (5,500 kilograms). It is located in the temple of Wat Traimit, Bangkok, Thailand. In 1954, a new Viharn building was built at the temple to house the statue. It was moved to its new location on 25 May 1955; there are a variety of accounts of what exactly happened next, but it is clear that during the final attempt to lift the statue from its pedestal, the ropes broke and the statue fell hard on the ground. At that moment, some of the plaster coatings chipped off, allowing the gold surface underneath to be seen. Work was immediately stopped so that an evaluation could be made. All the plaster was carefully removed and during the process, photos were taken and are now displayed in the Temple for visitors. Pieces of the actual plaster are also on public display. When all the plaster was removed, it was found that the gold statue actually consisted of nine parts that fit smoothly together. A key was also found encased in plaster at its base, which can be used to disassemble the statue, allowing for easier transportation. The golden statue was discovered very close to the commemoration of the twenty-fifth Buddhist Era (2500 years since Gautama Buddha's passing) so the Thai news media was full of reports and many Buddhists regarded the occurrence as miraculous. On 14 February 2010, a large new building was inaugurated at the Wat Traimit Temple to house the Gold Buddha. The building also contains the Bangkok Chinatown Heritage Centre and an exhibition on the origin of the Gold Buddha.

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DID YOU KNOW..?? IF NOT THEN NOW YOU KNOW..!!🙃 PART 3 WHAT SPARKLED THE NEED FOR FINGERPRINTING 》Two people looked identical and even shared the same name, but the two prisoners were different people, and their remarkable case helped bring in the era of fingerprint identification. One was called Will West, and the other one William West, and they were both sentenced to jail at Leavenworth Penitentiary in Kansas over 100 years ago. The arrival of Will West in 1903 caused the records clerk at the prison considerable confusion because he was convinced he'd processed him two years previously. The clerk, M.W. McClaughry, asked Will West if he'd ever been to the prison before. West said he hadn't. McClaughry then set about taking his Bertillon measurements, named after the French policeman Alphonse Bertillon which was the usual method of identifying people and involved recording the dimensions of key physical features. McClaughry, still convinced the man before he had already been to the prison, looked up his name in his filing system and found one William West who looked identical to Will West in the photographs in every respect. They even shared the same Bertillon measurements. But Will West insisted to McClaughry that it was not him: 'That's my picture, but I don't know where you got it, for I know I have never been here before.' To McClaughry's shock, he was right, too. William West was a different person altogether and in fact, had been admitted to prison two years previously for murder. The case highlighted the flaws in the Bertillon method and it wasn't long before the U.S authorities turned to fingerprints. Its pioneer was Scotland Yard's Sgt. John K. Ferrier met McClaughry at the St Louis World Fair in 1904 while he was guarding the Crown Jewels, which were on tour. He told the U.S prison officer how Scotland Yard had been using fingerprinting for the past three years and evangelized its accuracy. McClaughry was sold, and after being instructed on the technique he introduced it to Leavenworth Prison. America's first national fingerprint repository was established shortly afterward. The use of fingerprints had begun in 1858 with Sir William James Herschel, Chief Magistrate of the Hooghly district in Jungipoor, India, who asked locals to stamp their business contracts with their palms. However, he did this on a hunch that it would be a good way of identifying someone, not because he knew the science behind it.

DID YOU KNOW..?? IF NOT THEN NOW YOU KNOW..!!🙃 PART 4 EINSTEIN TURNED DOWN ISRAEL PRESIDENCY 》As a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and the creator of the world's most famous equation, Albert Einstein had an impressive resume. But there was one notable title he turned down: President of Israel. Israel's first president, Chaim Weizmann, said that Einstein was "the greatest Jew alive." So, upon Weizmann's death on November 9, 1952, only one successor seemed a natural fit. As such, the Embassy of Israel sent a letter to Einstein on November 17, officially offering him the presidency. The letter said he would have to move to Israel, but he wouldn't have to worry about the job being a distraction from his other interests. It was just the presidency, after all. "The Prime Minister assures me that in such circumstances, complete facility and freedom to pursue your great scientific work would be afforded by a government and people who are fully conscious of the supreme significance of your labors," Abba Ebban, an Israeli diplomat, wrote. And despite Einstein's age of 73 at the time, he would have been a popular choice. For one thing, as a German-born professor who found refuge in America during Hitler's rise to power, he had been a long-time advocate for the establishment of a persecution-free sanctuary for the Jews. "Zionism springs from an even deeper motive than Jewish suffering," he is quoted as saying in a 1929 issue of the Manchester Guardian. "It is rooted in a Jewish spiritual tradition whose maintenance and development are for Jews the basis of their continued existence as a community." Furthermore, Einstein's leadership in establishing the Hebrew University of Jerusalem suggested that he might be a willing candidate. Proponents thought his mathematics expertise would have been useful to the burgeoning state. "He might even be able to work out the mathematics of our economy and make sense of it," one statistician said to TIME magazine. However, Einstein turned the offer down, insisting that the man whose last name is synonymous with "genius" was not qualified. He also cited old age, inexperience, and insufficient people skills as reasons he wouldn't be a good choice. (Imagine someone turning down a presidency based on a lack of experience, old age, and an inability to deal properly with people.) "All my life, I have dealt with objective matters. Hence I lack the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people and to exercise official functions," he wrote. Though resolute in his decision, Einstein hoped it wouldn't reflect badly on his relationship with the Jewish community, a connection he called his "strongest human bond."

DID YOU KNOW..?? IF NOT THEN NOW YOU KNOW..!!🙃 PART 5 SAFETY COFFINS 》Cholera outbreaks, and bacterial infections causing severe diarrhea and dehydration, were prevalent in the 18th and 19th centuries. They left not only the communities it impacted very ill. But also very fearful of being buried alive. It was during this time clever feats of engineering sought to comfort the panicked population. One such invention was the safety coffin. The safety coffin provided its occupants the ability to escape from their newly found entrapment and alert others above ground that they were indeed still alive. Many safety coffins included comfortable cotton padding, feeding tubes, intricate systems of cords attached to bells, and escape hatches. Unfortunately, most neglected methods for providing air. An account from 1791 explains the death of a man from Manchester, Robert Robinson, and a prototype of a safety coffin. He was laid to rest in a mausoleum fitted with a special door that could be opened from the outside by the watchman on duty. Inside Robinson's coffin was a removable glass panel. Before his death, Robinson had instructed his family to periodically check on the glass inserted in the coffin. If the pane of glass had indications of condensation from his breath, he was to be removed immediately. However, the first true recorded safety coffin was for Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick before his death in 1792. The coffin included an air tube, a lock to the coffin lid that corresponded with keys he kept in his pocket, and a window to allow light in. 1892 saw the rise of the bell system, created by Dr. Johann Gottfried Taberger. Bells housed above ground are connected to strings attached to the body's head, hands, and feet. If the bell rang, the cemetery watchman would insert a tube into the coffin and pump air using bellows until the person could be safely evacuated from their grave. However, due to the process of natural decay, a swelling corpse could activate the bell system leading to false beliefs those buried inside were alive. Despite its popular use, there is no record of a safety coffin saving anyone. Many of the old burial customs from history resurfaced as fables and idioms we use currently. Some experts believe the idiom 'saved by the bell' originated from the use of safety coffins.

DID YOU KNOW..?? IF NOT THEN NOW YOU KNOW..!!🙃 PART 6 RAIN OF FISH 》Every year for the past 100 years or so, the little city of Yoro, Honduras, has experienced some very strange weather. Typically occurring in May or June, "lluvia de peces" or "rain of fish" is an annual weather event in which hundreds of fish rain from the sky onto the city's streets in the wake of severe thunderstorms. "Fish rain" or "animal rain," as the phenomenon is commonly known, has been reported around the world for centuries. But scientific explanations for why the phenomenon occurs are few and far between. One hypothesis suggests that a fish rain such as lluvia de peces originates with waterspouts, which are tornadoes that move over water, sucking up small creatures living below the surface, usually fish and frogs, and depositing them elsewhere. However, waterspouts are not known to carry their aquatic cargo at great distances; this doesn't help explain Yoro's fishy weather, because the fish that end up stranded there are not indigenous to local rivers or streams. If the waterspout theory were correct, then Yoro's fish would have to come from the next-closest body of water, the Atlantic Ocean, that's about 125 miles (200 kilometers) away. Local legend has it that the lluvia de peces event is actually a blessing bestowed upon the people of Yoro by Father Jose Manuel Subirana, a Spanish missionary who visited the area in the 1860s and prayed for the region's poor and hungry, asking God to provide them with food. Perhaps the most likely theory to explain the lluvia de peces phenomenon is the one proposed by a team of National Geographic scientists, who witnessed this bizarre event while on assignment in Yoro in the 1970s. After noting that the washed-up fish were completely blind, the scientists concluded that the Yoro fish don't actually fall from the sky. Instead, the heavy rains preceding their appearance probably force these subterranean fish above ground. While this theory of the lluvia de peces makes the most sense, it's also the least romantic and is therefore largely ignored.

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