TOP 10 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT LIONEL MESSI

TOP 10 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT LIONEL MESSI

Lionel Messi

1.Messi is the first person in history who has won four FIFA/Ballons d'Or.Another interesting fact is that he won these four awards consecutively. He is also the first player who won three European Golden Boot awards.

2.Messi is a very shy person which makes others difficult to talk him over the phone.Most of the important messages are informed him as SMS and he uses this SMS for communication as well.

3.Diego Maradona has declared Messi as his successor because of the similarity of their playing style.

4.Messi had tattooed his son's name "Thiago" and handprints on his left calf.

5.Messi was born in a middle-class family, his father Jorge Horácio Messi was a factory steel worker and his mother Celia María Cuccittini was a part-time cleaner.

6.Messi was diagnosed a growth hormone deficiency at the age of 11 and his parents couldn't afford his treatment as it was $900 a month

7.Messi started playing football at the age of 5. Barcelona was very impressed by his skills when he was 13, which made them offer to pay his medical bills and move his family to spain.

8.The National Team of Spain has offered him to play and he has declined it.

9.Messi is the founder of Leo Messi Foundation, which is an organisation that gives children treatment and education facilities. This foundation helps to pay for medical treatment, transportation and recuperation of children having major medical irregularities.

He is also the goodwill ambassador of UNICEF.

10.Messi shares his birthplace with Argentinian revolutionary Che Guevara.

TOP 10 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT HUMAN EYE

TOP 10 FACTS INTERESTING ABOUT HUMAN EYE

1.Images formed on the retina of the human eye is upside down, split in half and distorted.Yeah, it's true our brain inverts the image right-side up.

2.An average person blinks 15-20 times per minute. By blinking, we are lubricating our eyes and it allows us to focus better afterwards.

3.Eye is the fastest muscle in a human body. It contract in less than 1/100th of a second.

4.Our retina cannot detect red colour. Although we have red, green and blue receptors, the red receptor only detects yellow-green and the green receptor detects blue-green. Our brain combines these signals into the red.

5.There is a phobia called Ommatophobia which is the fear of eyes.

6.Albert Einstein's eyes are preserved in a box in New York City. That's weird I wouldn't let anyone do that to me.

7.Human eyes develop two weeks after conception.

8.Only one-sixth of the human eye is visible outside.

9.80% of our memories are built depending on what we see.

10.Cornea doesn't need blood supply. Oxygen and nutrients instead diffuse directly from the tear fluid on the outside and the aqueous humour on the inside, as well as along the nerve fibres that are connected to the cornea. 

The Superman curse

         I always wanted to write something creepy and mysterious stuffs by which I am always fascinated about. So, let me write about Superman curse. I used to watch these animated series of this movie in my childhood. Lately, I came to know about this Superman curse which I found very interesting.

The Superman curse

   The Superman curse refers to a series of misfortunes that happened to the people who have worked in this franchise. I really liked those animated series and seriously I don't believe in this stuff. I like Superman. let's start with people who are said to be victims of this curse. 

Christopher reeve in Superman costume

Actors who are said to be victims of this curse

1.Kirk Alyn

            

Kirk Alyn

           Kirk Alyn played as Superman in 1940s low budget Superman serials. But he couldn't gain success in his career. He became restricted to voice-overs, commercials, and uncredited screen roles. He suffered Alzheimer's's disease and died in 1999 at the age of 88.

2.Bud Collyer

Bud Collyer

               Bud Collyer was a voice actor who gave voice to the first Superman cartoon in 1941. In 1966, he gave voice to The New Adventures of Superman. Three years later, he died of circulatory ailment at his 61.

3.Lee Quigley

 Lee Quigley played as a Superman as a baby in a film. He died of solvent abuse at the age of 14.

4.Christopher Reeve

Christopher Reeve

Christopher Reeve was the most successful person in this list. He was very famous for his roles as Superman in the four Superman film series. In 1995, he was paralysed from the neck to down from a horse ride. Later, he died of heart failure in 2004.

5.George Reeves

George Reeves

George Reeves acted as Superman in the movie Superman and the Mole Men in 1951 and in the television series Adventures of Superman. In 1959, he was shot dead at his home. It was concluded as a suicide. It is said that his fingerprints were not found on the gun.

6.Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando in The Godfather

Marlon Brando acted as Joe-El in the film Superman: The Movie (1978), famous for his role in The Godfather. Misfortunes followed him also. In 1990, His son shot his half-sister's boyfriend. In 1995, his daughter committed suicide. He died in 2004.

7.Margot Kidder

Margot Kidder

Margot Kidder played as Lois lane. She suffered from bipolar disorder. In 1996, she disappeared for several days and found in a paranoid state. Kidder refused the idea of this Superman curse.

8.Richard Pryor

Richer Pryor acted as a villain Gus Gorman in Superman 3. In 1986, he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. In 2005, he died of cardiac arrest at the age of 65.

9.Joe Shuster

Joe Shuster was an artist who sold the rights to DC comics. In 1950, Shuster was losing his eyesight which made him quit his job and worked as a deliveryman.In 1976, he went almost blind and lived in a nursing home.

10.Fleischer brothers

Max Fleischer and Dave Fleischer was the producers of Superman cartoons, they started quarreling each other followed by a financial crisis which made them sell the studio. The new owners of the Studio dismissed from the Studio and one of the brothers died of poverty.


   I have written whatever I found relevant about this curse. There are people who are said to be not affected by the curse. Henry Cavill, Brandon Routh, Bob Holiday and Dean Cain are some of them. I don't think Brandon Routh was successful after acting as Superman in Superman Returns. Let's see what happens to Henry Cavill who is the latest Superman "The Man Of Steel".