Facts with fun

At the age of 12, Martin Luther King became so depressed he tried committing suicide twice, by jumping out of his bedroom window.

It is illegal to be a prostitute in Siena, Italy, if your name is Mary.

Only 1 child in 20 are born on the day predicted by the doctor.

It is a criminal offence to drive around in a dirty car in Russia.

Sir Winston Churchill rationed himself to 15 cigars a day.

Some Eskimos have been known to use refrigerators to keep their food from freezing.

Between the two World War's, France was controlled by forty different governments.

The study of stupidity is called 'monology'.

A parthenophobic has a fear of virgins.

The two highest IQ's ever recorded (on a standard test) both belong to women.

In parts of Malaya, the women keep harems of men.

The Toltecs, Seventh-century native Mexicans, went into battle with wooden swords so as not to kill their enemies.

When Albert Einstein died, his final words died with him. The nurse at his side didn't understand German.

compiled from http://home.bitworks.co.nz/trivia/human.htm

Hard earned FREEDOM

In October 1952, the British governor of Kenya, Sir Evelyn Baring, declared a state of emergency. Mau Mau rebels were attacking and killing African loyalists and white settlers in a quest for "land and freedom." Whites were in a panic, and the empire needed a swift show of force. What began as a military operation turned into an eight-year campaign of terror against Kenya's largest ethnic group, the Kikuyu. British soldiers herded nearly one million of them into detention camps and "emergency villages," where they endured forced labor, starvation, torture, and disease. At least 100,000 died.

Today we celebrate Madaraka Day, the day we got self rule from the colonialists, the imperialists, the god-damn British. I still do not believe that they believed what they were doing was right especially since it was identical to the holocaust. How do you go to a new land, claim it as yours and kill, tax and torture those from whom you took the land. I feel like puking every time I think about it. Life is such a bitch. "Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya", is a book that tells of the injustices of British colonial rule. Get it, Read it!