5 People With Exceptionally Unique Skin Colours

We have different Skin colors due to the presence of a pigment called melanin, which is controlled by at least 6 genes. Both light and dark complexioned people have melanin. However, two forms are produced--pheomelanin , which is red to yellow in color, and eumelanin , which is dark brown to black.

Below are few people with exceptionally unique skin colors:

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1. Khoudia Diop

Khoudia Diop is a 19-year-old from Senegal who has faced bullying throughout her life simply because of the color of her skin. But that hasn't stopped her, and she began working with The Coloured Girl, Inc., a group that promotes self-love and celebrates women of all backgrounds.

Since then, Khoudia, who started modeling when she was 17, has won over the Internet with her stunning photos, which have earned her a following of over 235,000 people on Instagram. She's also inspiring people to embrace their differences: “If you're lucky enough to be different, don't ever change.”

2. Connie Chiu

Connie Chiu was born in Hong Kong. The fourth child in a Chinese family, she was the only one born with albinism.

3. Winnie Harlow

When Winnie Harlow was four years old, a mysterious white patch appeared on her stomach. Diagnosed with the skin disorder vitiligo, she watched as similar spots spread all over her body over the next few years, including on her hands, knees, and face.


Her striking appearance caught the attention of Tyra Banks, who discovered her on Instagram and asked her to compete in cycle 21 of America's Next Top Model, where she placed fifth. She is now the current brand ambassador for the Barcelona-based casual clothing brand Desigual, along with Brazilian supermodel Adriana Lima. (Source 1 | Source 2)

4. Nastya Zhidkova

Dubbed the most beautiful albino girl in the world, Nasty Zhidkova was born in Russian in 1996. This young model is a striking photogenic beauty credited with changing the face of the fashion and beauty industry in Russia. Nastya is also a talented songstress who frequently shares her music on Youtube.

5. Brock Elbank's subjects

Photographer Brock Elbank is another artist who wants to show off just how beautiful freckles truly are. He started a project dedicated to photographing freckled skin back in 2012, in a stripped back studio free of any visual distractions. The focus is all about the freckles.

The project, called #Freckles, is in progress in London. Elbank is still looking for anyone with freckles to take part for a collection that will be shown in 2017 through Michael Reid.
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5 Incredibly Bizarre Genetic Mutations That Are Real

According to Wikipedia, Mutation is the permanent alteration of the nucleotide sequence of the genome of an organism, virus, or extrachromosomal DNA or other genetic elements.

No two people are alike, due to the subtly different ways our genomes are expressed. But sometimes these biological differences lead to genetic mutations that are extremely rare, and sometimes debilitating.


Historically, many people suffering from these mutations were labeled monsters or freaks — but today, we know they are simply part of the broad spectrum of genetic variations in our species.

Here are 7 of the most Incredibly bizarre genetic mutations we've identified in humans.

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1. Frog baby:

In 2006, this bizarre-looking baby was born in Charikot, the headquarters of Dolakha district, attracting a huge number of onlookers to witness the astonishing sight.

The neck-less baby with its head almost totally sunk into the upper part of the body and with extraordinarily large eyeballs literally popping out of the eye-sockets, was born to Nir Bahadur Karki and Suntali Karki at the Gaurishnkar Hospital in Charikot. The Karki couple is a permanent resident of Dolakha's Bhirkot VDC.

2. The tail man:

With a 13-inch tail, Chandre Oram, a tea-estate worker, has become quite an object of devotion in his native Alipurduar, West Bengal and believes that Hanuman is manifest in him. "I was born on Ram Navami (birthday of Lord Ram). People have a lot of faith in me - they get cured of severe ailments when they touch my tail.

I believe I can do a lot of good to those who come to me with devotion," says the man, before whom thousands of people queue up each day to seek blessings. In a corner of the courtyard of his home, Oram has set up a small Hanuman temple, where he receives offerings on Ram Navami, which he later offers to the deity.

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3.  Feet facing backwards (Wang Fang - China):

Wang Fang, 27, of Chongqing city in China, was born with her feet facing the wrong way. She has learned to live with her condition without problems and recently refused a disability pension by being classified as disabled. 

"I can run faster than most of my friends and have a regular job as a waitress in the family restaurant. There is no reason to class me as disabled."

4. Baby with three arms( Liu Junjie- China)

 

This baby named Liu Junjie from Anhui Province, China, was born with a third arm in 2006. Doctors successfully removed the extremely rare and well-developed third arm, but the baby required long-term physical therapy to gain function in his remaining hand, which has no palm and flexes in either direction. 

"We're hoping to exchange information with doctors who've dealt with similar cases anywhere in the world," said Chen, head of the orthopedics department at Shanghai Children's Medical Center. "This is so rare that we have virtually no information to go on."

5. Nipple on the foot

"A 22-year-old woman(unidentified), sought medical care for a lesion in the plantar region of her left foot, a well-formed nipple surrounded by areola and hair. Microscopic examination of the dermis showed hair follicles, eccrine glands, and sebaceous glands. Fat tissue was noted at the base of the lesion.

Clinical and histopathologic findings were consistent with the diagnosis of supernumerary breast tissue, also known as pseudomamma. To our knowledge, this is the first report of supernumerary breast tissue on the foot." 

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10 Incredibly Hairy People That Will Leave You With A Jaw-Drop

Hypertrichosis is a rare genetic condition that results in extreme hairiness. It is sometimes referred to as "werewolf syndrome". Only about 50 cases in history have been documented.

There is some speculation that Esau, son of Isaac and twin brother of Jacob, may have had hypertrichosis. He was described in the Old Testament as born covered in red hair, and was referred to as a hairy man by his brother as an adult.


So, if you think you're hairy or if you think you know someone who's hairy, then think again. These incredibly hairy people will sure leave you with a jaw drop.

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1. Ramos Gomez brothers

Life for hairy brothers Victor "Larry" and Gabriel "Danny" Ramos Gomez is anything but dull. They fly through the air regularly in their jobs as trampoline acrobats. The duo had a chance to become TV stars when they were offered starring roles in The X-Files.

2. Yu Zhenhuan

Yu was born in the city of Anshan in the Chinese province of Anshan in 1979 and began growing hair at the age of two that eventually covered approximately 96% of his body. As well as being incredibly hairy, The Hairy Chinese Kid is also an aspiring rock star and has used his unusual looks to launch something of a music career. He is an adult now.

3. Pruthviraj Patil

Pruthviraj Patil was born to a well off farmer in the Indian district of Sangali which is near Mumbai, with the "Werewolf Syndrome" due to which he has all his face and body covered in thick matted hair. He and his parents have tried various traditional Ayurvedic remedies, laser surgeries and homeopathy, to cure the disease but none of them have worked.

4. Supatra Sasuphan

Supatra Sasuphan, an 13-year-old girl from Thailand, suffers from werewolf syndrome, which could offer a future cure for baldness.

She has been teased her entire life by other kids, who call her "monkey face" and "wolf girl". But now her Guinness world record has made her very popular at school. She said: "I'm very happy to be in the Guinness World Records. A lot of people have to do a lot to get in. All I did was answer a few questions and then they gave it to me." Supatra is one of only 50 sufferers of Ambras Syndrome documented since the Middle Ages. It is caused by a faulty chromosome.

5. Julia Pastrana 

Julia Pastrana was born in Mexico in 1834 with hypertrichosis terminalis, meaning her entire body was covered with hair several inches long. She also had a deformed mouth with huge teeth, leading one doctor of the day to declare that she was "˜a hybrid between human and orangutan'. Pastrana was only four and a half feet tall but had a womanly figure.

She began a career in freak shows at age 20, and was "managed" by several other handlers before she met exhibitor Theodor Lent, who eventually married her. At venues all over Europe, she was billed as part human, part animal but charmed audiences with her intelligence and grace. Pastrana spoke three languages and sang and danced on stage.

At age 26, Pastrana gave birth in Moscow to a son who was also covered with hair, and who died within two days. Julia herself died five days later. Pastrana's body was traded around for exhibit

6. Fedor Jeftichew

Fedor Jeftichew was born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1868 to a father, Adrian Jeftichew who also had hypertrichosis. The father and son appeared in sideshows together until P.T. Barnum brought the younger Jeftichew to the US in 1894.

Although Fedor could speak three languages(English, German and Russian), he played his part and barked for the audience. In his time, Jeftichew was one of the highest-paid sideshow attractions in the world. He died in Turkey in 1904.

7. Stephan Bibrowski

Stephan Bibrowski (1891–1932), better known as Lionel the Lion-Faced Man, was a famous sideshow performer. His whole body was covered with long hair that gave him the appearance of a lion.

Bibrowski was born in 1891 near Warsaw in Poland with one-inch hair covering his body. His mother blamed the condition on the mauling of his father by a lion, which she witnessed while pregnant with Stephan.

8. Percilla Lauther Bejano

Percilla Lauther Bejano was born in 1911 in Puerto Rico, the only one of five children to be born with excessive hair. Her mother consulted with doctors, but could find no treatment for her.

Percilla fell in love with another sideshow exhibit named Emmitt Bejano, who suffered from ichthyosis and was billed as the Alligator-Skinned Man. The two married in 1938 and remained madly in love until Emmitt's death in 1995. They were billed as "The World's Strangest Married Couple" when they toured with Ringling Brothers.

Percilla and her parents traveled to New York City to be examined by a team of doctors. She remained in New York for seven months before returning to Puerto Rico. Percilla passed away in 2001 at age 89.

9. Jesús Aceves

Jesús "Chuy" Aceves was born in Loreto, Zacatecas, Mexico, and is the second person in his family born with a rare condition known as hypertrichosis.

Chuy's face is covered with hair, making him resemble the legendary werewolf or, as some call him, a monkey man. Chuy is married and has two daughters, one of whom has the condition.

In 2007, Chuy was featured in the books Ripley's Believe It or Not! and Guinness World Records.

10. Annie Jones

 Annie Jones (c. 1860 – 1902) was an American bearded woman, born in Virginia. She toured with showman P. T. Barnum as a circus attraction. It is unconfirmed if this was a case of hirsutism or an unrelated genetic condition that affects children of both sexes and continues into adult years.


She became a musician and then married Richard Elliot in 1881, but divorced him in 1895 for her childhood sweetheart William Donovan (who later died, leaving Jones a widow). In 1902, Jones herself died of tuberculosis.

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10 World's Most Extreme Body Piercing (Warning: Graphic Contents).

Body piercing as defined by Wikipedia, is the practice of puncturing or cutting a part of the human body, creating an opening in which jewelry may be worn.


However, this act has taken a totally different turn, a turn to the extreme. In fact, humanity has been doing it for a long long time. One of these rituals was celebrated at Phuket, Thailand's Vegetarian festival where devotees pierce their faces and deny eating meat to become "pure".

Penetrating the body with objects of all kinds, however, is something that is practiced across the globe, although it has become far more common in the West over the last few decades.

Here are a few collections of the world's most extreme body piercings.

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1. Piercing with knives:

Extreme body piercing from the vegetarian festival in Phuket, Thailand, where devotees pierce their faces and deny eating meat to become "pure".

2. Nose piercing with a knife:

The guy in this picture is Pauly Unstoppable.

3. 2,008 needles pierced:

Southern China: in a bizarre publicity stunt, Dr. Wei Sheng pierced 2,008 needles using the colors of the Olympic rings into his head, face, shoulder and hands to mark the Beijing Olympic games. He also broke a Guinness World record in 2004 for piercing 1,790 needles into his head.

4. The Fishmouth

One of the most asked-about members of the BME modification community is “Fishmaul” (”Fishmouth”) or “Zygzag”, who is said to wear massive plugs in stretched cheek piercings.

5. Record breaking piercing in Sunderland.

On March 04, 2006, Kam Ma spent 7 hours and 55 minutes being pierced by Charlie Wilson at Sunderland Body Art in the UK. When the world's longest body piercing session was over, Charlie Wilson had pierced Kam Ma a record breaking 1,015 times, all without the use of any anesthetic.

6. Large Hollow on the ankle:

Another example of an extreme body piercing. And sometimes I wonder why some of 'em freaks do what they do, I got to a conclusion that they want to challenge themselves...

7. 900 Needles:

Brent Moffatt from Winnipeg, Canada, pierced himself with surgical needles to set a Guinness record for most body piercings, in Montreal, December 13, 2003. Moffatt inserted 900 needles into his legs to break his previous record of 702 piercings.

8. From the Thailand vegetarian festival.

Mediums, who were laymen and monks, pierce themselves (particularly their cheeks) with objects of different shapes and sizes while in an altered state to exhibit the powers and strength of the human body and spirit.

9. Extreme!!!

I think you should say something about this yourself.

10. Another Record Breaker

And to end this article, meet the Guinness World record holder as the most pierced woman of the world: Elaine Davidson from Edinburgh, Scotland. She has over 9,000 piercings and plans to get more!

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8 Most Extreme Wedding Photoshoots in the History Of Wedding Photoshoots

Most weddings are beautiful  festive events, filled with love and emotions. There is usually not a lot of risk or danger involved, as the wedding moves from the getting-ready stage to the ceremony and reception in beautiful locations.


For these couples, however, they wanted to have a feel of something different from the boring usual. They wanted to feel fear and then have it coated with lovely smiles to make it look just as amazing as they really are.

Well, below are a collection of the most amazing, yet  extreme wedding photoshoots in the history of wedding photoshoots.

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1. The Blazed Photoshoot:

Photographer Josh Newton captured these dramatic wedding photos in 2014 in Oregon, after a small fire in the vicinity grew out of control. The fire brigade evacuated all the guests halfway through the ceremony.

No one was in any real danger — the fire was 6 miles away. Right before the bride walked down the aisle, firefighters came and told everyone they had to be evacuated. However, the wedding coordinator talked the firemen into letting them get married if they did it quickly.

After the ceremony, the couple took the most dramatic wedding photos ever, and the results were amazing. (Source)

2. Tornado feel Photoshoot:

A Canadian photographer named Colleen Niska, posted the pictures to her Facebook page with the caption "I've dreamed about a day like this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Could NOT wait to post these! Pretty sure this will only happen once in my lifetime!"

3.  Photoshoot on the rim of a volcano:

This couple got married at the rim of an active volcano, the Masaya Volcano in Nicaragua.

Molinas and Timmer also had an over-the-top proposal (while storm chasing) and engagement shoot, which was weather-themed and shot underwater in the pool at the Biltmore in Miami–and featured in a story on Fox and Friends

4. Stunt Photoshoot:

This couple attempted a stunt not quite so safe. The bride pictured below conquered the famous Lost Arrow Spire Highline in California’s Yosemite National Park on her wedding day. Dressed in white she clambered along a tight rope 3,000 feet in the air; a feat that’s recommended only for the most experienced and prepared rock climber.

5. She's on fire kinda Photoshoot:

Tel Aviv area photographer Arik Siman-tov had been planning to shoot a photo so “extreme,” nobody would forget it. Then, he says, he was contacted by a bride, Natasha Samuel, who was looking “to do something that hadn't been done before.” It was a match — as they say — made in heaven.

Together they came up with the idea of lighting the bride's dress on fire, which she would then extinguish by running into the Mediterranean Sea. In the video below, Siman-tov is seen sparking the fire on the back of the dress and commands Samuel to quickly run into the sea to put it out.

The image is dramatic. Though it looks like her entire back is on fire, the flame never actually touched her back, according to Siman-tov. But it did get frighteningly close.

6. Hang from that Tree Kinda Photoshoot:

This photoshoot was done in Seychelles by photographer Christelle Rall. It look beautiful to behold but dangerous. What if anything goes wrong?

7. Photoshoot on an ice cliff:

This bride took the daring step to stand on a 120ft high ice cliff just to have the perfect wedding photoshoot with the famous photographer, Jay Philbrick.

8. Cliff Hanger Photoshoot:

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In some jaw-dropping images, bride and groom Christie Sulkoski and Kevin Coleman can be seen hanging off the cliff in their full wedding outfits.

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10 Morning Wood(erection) Facts You Probably Didn't Know.

Many young penis owners, and even some older ones who haven’t found the right people to ask, are curious about morning erections. Most people who have a penis have the experience, with some regularity, of waking up in the morning with an erection and wonder, what's up with this?


This is a difficult thing to understand for women and even people who own a penis. Doctors, however, have studied why this morning wood happens to men. Yes, hard to believe, that science spent time on this subject.

Below are some of the facts they discovered from their studies.

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1. It's just part of life, men of all ages wake up with an erection.

 The medical name for a morning wood is nocturnal penile tumescence (NPT). There are some assumptions as to why this happens to men when they wake up in the morning.

2. It becomes less frequent when you get to a certain age.

This morning wood phenomenon becomes less and less frequent around the time men are in the 60's and 70's.

3. The brain controls our bodies and function. This is why men can control being aroused at work, in the gym or on a date.

 

While at sleep, some parts of the brain are shut down, that means the brain no longer keeps the penis in check. 

Whereas normally the brain is regulating the penis and making sure erections only occur when needed, during REM the penis is free to do whatever it wants. And what it wants to do is get hard.

4. It's a lot stronger in the morning because he's hormonal.

 

Guy's testosterone level is at its highest, early in the day around 25% to 50%. As the day progresses, the levels begins to drop.

5. The penis gets hard when it's rubbed up against something accidentally, during sleep.

 

The penis gets aroused by touch, physical stimulation. Hence, if the body is pressed against something or someone, it's responded by making the penis do what it knows how to do best, getting hard.

6. It's just a way for the penis to exercise 

NPT can actually be a way the body conditions the penis to keep blood in it for long periods of time. "There's no other place in your body that has to trap blood for an extended period of time," says Dr. Alukal.

"For example, if we took a tourniquet and tied it around your foot for a half hour, we might have some problems afterward. But your penis is expected to trap blood for a half hour or an hour and be fine afterward.  

But Dr. Alukal is quick to point out that this is just a theory, and there's no data to back it up. (source: cosmopolitan.com)

7. A man's erection comes after receiving signals from the brain telling him he is stimulated and ready. 

 

8. Guys experience multiple boners per night  

Doctors estimate that men will have about four to five erections throughout the night with each lasting approximately 25-30 minutes. In case you are wondering, that is totally normal.

9. A man's bladder may also be making him get an erection. 

 

It is a common myth that morning erections are caused by a full bladder. While we know that having a full bladder can lead to an erection in someone who is awake (we know this through research with men with spinal cord injuries) it's not clear that this does cause erections throughout the night.

10. Getting the morning wood is good news, don't get embarrassed cos of that.

Men on average have morning erections about three times a night. Doctors say this means your testosterone levels are good, and his overall health is doing great.

References: 1, 2 and 3.

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