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Debunked: A lemon contains more sugar than a strawberry

Does a lemon contain more sugar than a strawberry?

The fact that a lemon contains more sugar than a strawberry, is another remarkable funny fact that is well spread around the internet. The acid within the lemon masks the sweetness of the sugar, at least that is the explanation.
To determine if this is true we first need to agree on how to compare the two, since a lemon is of course much bigger and heavier than one strawberry. To make a fair comparison we should look at the amount of sugar per, lets take the standard, 100gram.
Then we will see that a lemon contains 2.50g sugar per 100g, and a strawberry contains 5g sugar per 100g. Twice the amount of that of a lemon!

So we can safely conclude this fact is not true and debunked; A lemon does not contain more sugar than a strawberry
In fact, a strawberry contains twice as much sugar as a lemon.

Source: Wikipedia, NutrionData, TheFruitPages

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Heroine was developed as cough medicine

German drug company Bayer developed heroine as a substitute for morphine as a cough suppressant. Bayer wanted to develop a less addictive substitute and came up with heroine in 1895.
Contrary to Bayer’s advertisements it soon would prove to have one of the highest rates of dependence amongst its users.

Even still today heroin is used medically as a painkiller. In the UK it is prescribed under the name diamorphine as a strong analgesic. Its use includes treatment for acute pain, such as in severe physical trauma, myocardial infarction, post-surgical pain, and chronic pain, including end-stage cancer and other terminal illnesses.

Source: Wikipedia

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Octopuses get erections

Octopuses can get erections, according to US researchers.
The male octopus seems to have an inflatable organ, called the ligula, on one of its arms. This is the so called ‘mating arm’.
The structure of the ligula is remarkably similar to mammal penises and clitorises, so say the researchers. It has cavities that fill with blood held together by collagen.
Male octopuses produce a packet of sperm and insert it into their mate using this specialized arm. When all goes according to plan, the ligula is deployed inside the female, obscuring its function and size. It might help to transfer sperm, or it might scrub out the sperm of previous mates.
The organ is bright white, lacking the colour-changing cells that camouflage the rest of the octopus. In the two-spot, which hunts by day, this might be a beacon to predators. Shrinking it away might minimize this risk.

I guess the female octopi can be glad he has this organ on only one of his many arms!

Source: Nature

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The youngest mother in the world was only 5 years old when she gave birth

Youngest mother

Lina Medina (born September 27, 1933 in Paurange in Peru) gave birth at the age of 5 years, 7 months and 21 days and is the youngest confirmed mother in medical history.

Lina’s parents brought her to the hospital because of her increasing abdominal size. They thought she had a tumor, but in the hospital it was quickly clear that she was pregnant. A month later, at May 14 1939, her son was born by a caesarean section necessitated by her small pelvis.
The surgery was performed by Dr. Lozada and Dr. Busalleu, with Dr. Colretta providing anaesthesia. Before the operation, Dr. Lozada had brought her to the hospital in Lima to check whether Lina was really pregnant or not.
The case of Lina is well registered by Dr. Edmundo Escomel in La Presse Medicale.

Her son weighed 2.7 kg (6 lb) at birth and was named Gerardo after her doctor. Gerardo was raised believing that Lina was his sister, but found out at the age of ten that she was his mother. He grew up healthy but died in 1979 at the age of 40 of a disease of the bone marrow.

Lina her menarche had occurred at 8 months of age, and she had had prominent breast development by the age of 4. By age 5 her figure displayed pelvic widening and advanced bone maturation.
The pregnancy was the youngest pregnancy in the world.

Source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Medina

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