We’ve picked up a few weird things and wanted to share them with you.
1st fact – Delusions of death
A rare condition exists that was first described by Dr. Jules Cotard in 1882.
Many of us make it through out day without questioning if we are alive or not. And if we did? We’d most probably find a million comforting answers from physical (do you move? Grow? Metabolize?) to the philosophical (‘’I think, therefore I am””). But all of this doesn’t stand for people with the rare condition called Cotard’s syndrome.
People suffering from the delusion become convinced that they have lost blood, organs or body parts or even soul. They report the desire to be among dead people and hopelessness, decreased appetite, low energy and somnolence.
No one is certain what causes these delusions. Some reported that it usually occurs with severe depression and some psychotic disorders. It can accompany other neurological conditions and mental illnesses. It is also referred to as walking corpse syndrome or nihilistic delusion. Some experts believe that Cotard’s delusion is purely psychological. Regardless of its origins, it’s certainly one of the weirdest things we learned this month.
Fact 2: Animals adopt other species babies
Even though you might think of your own pet as your own furry baby, you wouldn’t think its literally the fruit of your loins, right?
We can’t be sure whether this pair of albatrosses that adopted a chick of another species are just compassionate, loving pet owners or extremely jumbled. But however, it happened—and whatever their motivations are – these loving short-tailed birds hatched a black-footed baby after taking good care of it.
The best potential explanation for these alternative family provisions is that it’s much better to be unwary and innocent than to occasionally abandon their own offspring. There’s no harm in sporadically babying another species member by accident when the alternative is to be so cautious of the chicks in your nest that you might frustrate your own evolutionary dominant by kicking one of your kids to the curb?
Fact 3: The first celebrity diet consisted of salt and vinegar chips
The web is full of weight loss advice. How to lose 10 pounds in 10 days; quitting carbs and sugar altogether. Every dietary plan is backed up by sites promising scientific evidence (which is not usually the case). Almost every diet has at least one celebrity endorsing the trend and claiming it was a life saver.
The first celebrity diet is claimed to be done by Lord Byron, an English poet who lived from 1788 to 1824. The poet attended Cambridge University and during that time, Byron was extremely vain as historians claim. With an overwhelming fear of becoming overweight, Byron subsisted on a combination of biscuits and soda water. He’d occasionally eat potatoes covered in vinegar for a little variety.
It turns out he had a reflective effect on the other young poets during those days – where many of them followed the same diet or variations of it like eating rice and vinegar. They all wanted that same thin and pale look that Byron had.
Let’s be realistic though: Carbs drenched in vinegar do not provide a nutritious diet. Vinegar has few, if any, health benefits. And even though potatoes are a healthier food than low-carb trends might have you believe, you’d have to consume a lot of them to get all the nutrients and vitamins you need. Celebrities are probably not best people to take dieting advice from, regardless of how cool they are.
