Saturday, October 4, 2008

Brief Strange Stories of the Planet

The King Of Morocco

The king of Morocco (in the 17th century), Moulay Ismail Ibn Sharif, had a harem with 500 wives and 1042 recorded offspring.

The woman to give birth to the most children was a peasant’s wife from Shuya (east of Moscow) . She gave birth 27 times. 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets.

Females would starve for Fashion

The difference between men and women is pretty obvious, men find pleasures in beer, great food, watching sports and sex while women…well women won´t enjoy their life fully until they find a way to buy their first Gucci purse.

According to a survey in England, 49% of the British public spend more every month on their appearance than they do on food. Even more stunning is that 18% admitted to spending more than half their wages on clothes and accessories.

The most interested and worrying fact is that 32% of UK females confess that if push came to shove they’d prefer to go without food to nab that fashion “must-have”.

Motorcycle made from a Watch!

Most Nymphomaniac in History

Valeria Messalina of ancient Rome almost certainly wins this one; indeed her name (the "Messalina complex") has been used as a synonym for nymphomania. With her insatiable sexual appetites she acted as prostitute and seducer. She married Claudius when only sixteen; it has been speculated that she started an active sex life when she was thirteen or fourteen. If she fancied a man, Claudius would order him to submit to her whims: it was useful being married to an emperor. Dio Cassius has declared that she kept her lustful husband well supplied with housemaids for bedfellows. She often enjoyed herself in the local brothel.

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