Cameroon military is claiming they killed BH leader Shekau, shares pic

Cameroon military is claiming they killed BH leader Shekau, shares pic

The Cameroon military yesterday announced they have killed Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, in a statement released on their website. The statement was written in French (a language I don't understand...so I got the report from Cameroon Concord. See it below...

In a rare public show by the Cameroon army, photos of the Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau were made public alongside a statement claiming he was killed during a cross border raid deep inside Nigeria by the Cameroon military. A Cameroon military source who spoke to Cameroon Concord late last night, revealed that Abubakar Shekau was killed following an aerial bombardment of his hideout inside Nigeria. The Cameroon army has ever since yesterday been in serious combat against thousands of Boko Haram fighters trying to enter Cameroon via Fotokol from Gambaral Ngala in Nigeria.

Is that the same man though?

Medical Facts Did you know...   A trained nose can distinguish up to 10,000 different smells.       A 70-year-old man breathing deeply will inhale half as much air as he did around the age of 20.       By age thirty, the brain starts losing 50,000 cells a day.       Macrophages (large white blood cells) in the body consume more than 300 billion dead or dying red blood cells each day.       The whole exterior of the body is covered by protective layer, which is commonly termed as skin. The skin constantly flakes away, to be replaced by new tissue, once every month. A lifetime of flaking removes 105 pounds of old skins and sees a thousand outer layers. A square inch of the skin is made up of 19 million cells, 625 glands for sweat, and 90 glands for oil. Nineteen feet of intricately woven blood vessels serve the square - inch area, along with 19000 nerve cells. 65 millions of hairs are there each populated by tens millions of bacteria and microscopic mites on them. The outer most layer of skin is termed in medicine as epidermis, which has no life in it.   An adult human is made up of nearly a 100 trillion cells.           Our eyes have 125 million cells to distinguish shades of gray in dim light and 7 million cells that give colour in bright light.           Blood vessels (arteries, capillaries and veins) make up a 60,000-mile system in the human body.       The heart of olfactory system lies deep within the brain. They are two bulbs. The bulbs receive information from 40 million olfactory nerves that hang from the roofs of the nasal cavities. Although these nerves connect directly to the olfactory bulbs, they are shielded from the outside world only by a thin coating of mucus. They are brain's most direct link to physical environment, perhaps a remnant of organs that first developed some 500 million years ago. Surrounding the olfactory bulbs is the limbic region of the brain, which controls emotion and plays a pivotal role in forming and recalling memories. This intimate association explains why odors and emotions are linked. Some researchers suggest that some specific smell makes a person relaxed or even lowered blood pressure. It is a well acquired fact that woman who work in close work places and live in close dormitories, soon acquire synchronized menstrual cycles.       The brain accounts for only 2% of the body weight. It is bathing in 15% of the blood at any given instant and consumes 20% of the nutrition and oxygen.       In just one second, the human body completes about 500 trillion faultless copies of hemoglobin, a protein containing more than 570 amino acids.       Our blood cycles through our body 1,440 times a day.       It takes 25,000 times more soup to taste it than to smell it.       At birth human babies have some 350 bones, more than one and half times the number they will have as adult. Many f the small bones of the infant skeleton eventually fuse to form larger ones, 206 in all.         Food gradually tastes more bland as the number of taste buds on the tongue is reduced about 2/3rds by age 70.         A blood clot is made up of 99% water.       Nothing more vital to human body than water. The water constitutes 61% of the body or about fifty quarts in an average man. About two and half quarts are lost each day through exhalation, perspiration, and excretion. If the loss is not regained by more water intake and if the body looses seven to ten quarts of water more then death is inevitable. Although people have reportedly survived without food, no one has been able to live more than eleven days without water. However, the right protection should be maintained through out the life. If a person increases the intake than normal, then it is possible that he suffers from consequences of excess of water intake. It is rarely seen but such a excess manifests itself in dilution of the mineral concentrations. Because of depletion of the minerals of the body, the cells swell up. Usually the result is uncomfortable bloating. When brain cells become engorged, however, the result could be an excruciating headache, convulsions and or even coma       By the time you grow from infancy to adulthood, you will have about 144 fewer bones.       Even when skin is freshly soaped and rinsed clean, some areas may be home to as many as 20 million bacteria on every square inch.       Only 10 millionths of an inch thick, our lungs can be stretched out to occupy a raquetball court (nearly 750 square feet).       Some 650 muscles sheath the skeleton.       The brain reaches its maximum weight by age 20 – 3 ounces. Over the next 60 years, as billions of nerve cells die within the brain, it loses about 3 ounces.       The body has about 100 trillion cells -- as many as there would be people on 20,000 earths.       There are over 50,000 different proteins in our body.       Many diseases are known to produce characteristic odors on the bodies of the afflicted. Typhoid smells like baking bread, German measles like plucked feathers, yellow fever like a butcher shop, and gangrene like a rotten apple. There are news that at times smell specialist are being asked by the doctors to help them out to diagnose a case which is not being solved but has strange odor. After smelling the affected child, the smell specialist pinpoint the child's condition to which turned out to be a rare metabolic disorder linked to certain food. The appropriate change in diet improved the condition.       The rush of air produced by a cough moves at a speed approaching 600 miles per hour.       The body grows about a third of an inch every night but shrinks to its original size the next day. Gravity makes the difference. In bed, the cartilage disks of the spine are relieved of gravity's downward pull and expand, adding to body length. A prolonged absence of gravity such as that experienced in space can stretch an astronaut by an inch or two.       At any given time, 75 percent of our blood lies in the veins.         Stretched end to end, the digestive tract measure 30 feet.         About a 100 different chemicals transmit information in the brain and along nerves.       The skin sheds nearly a million cells every 40 minutes.       Platelets live for only 10 days.       The heart of a 70-year-old man at rest will pump a quart less blood per minute than it did 40 years earlier.       When we are awake we see many colorful images, the same images are seen in the dreams. Psychologists say that the most exclusive experience is always dreamed of. If that is the case then what about the blind. Blind people interpret their daytime world through hearing, touch, taste, smell, and through balanced emotions. Those who are born blind or lost their vision in early childhood have no concept of seeing with the eyes. Their dreams are rich in sound, movement, and tactual images. Visual pictures are absent in their dreams. A research study revealed that hearing is the most important mode followed by touch.       The lungs are twin sacs of tissues suspended behind the heart. It contains 375 million tiny air cells called as alveoli. These act as small valves at the end of air tubes, or bronchi. The alveoli are involved in active gaseous exchange. It exchanges oxygen with carbon dioxide in the blood. The exchange itself occurs automatically, with the help of simple law of physics. As the pressure is high in alveoli that of oxygen with respect to the pressure of carbon dioxide in the red blood cells, the exchange takes place from the alveoli to the red blood cells. The lungs have interior surface area of 861 square feet. This matches with that of a rug of four by five foot.       One square inch of skin may hold 650 sweat glands, 20 blood vessels and over a 1000 nerve endings.

And your Lord inspired the bee, saying: "Take you habitations in the mountains and in the trees and in what they erect.
"Then, eat of all fruits, and follow the ways of your Lord made easy (for you)." There comes forth from their bellies, a drink of varying colour wherein is healing for men. Verily, in this is indeed a sign for people who think.
[16:68-69]

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FACTS ABOUT HONEY

	Honey never spoils. No need to refrigerate it. It can be stored unopened, indefinitely, at room temperature in a dry cupboard.
	Honey is one of the oldest foods in existence. It was found in the tomb of King Tut and was still edible since honey never spoils.
	Due to the high level of fructose, honey is 25% sweeter than table sugar.
	Honey is created when bees mix plant nectar, a sweet substance secreted by flowers, with their own bee enzymes.
	To make honey, bees drop the collected nectar into the honeycomb and then evaporate it by fanning their wings.
	Honey has different flavors and colors, depending on the location and kinds of flowers the bees visit. Climatic conditions of the area also influence its flavor and color.

	To keep their hives strong, beekeepers must place them in locations that will provide abundant nectar sources as well as water.
	In the days before biology and botany were understood, people thought it was a special kind of magic that turned flower nectar into honey.
		Honeybees are one of science's great mysteries because they have remained unchanged for 20 million years, even though the world changed around them.
		Bees have been producing honey for at least 150 million years.

	The true honeybee was not known in the Americas until Spanish, Dutch, and English settlers introduced it near the end of the 17th century.
	Did you know that bees have 4 wings?
	The honeybee's wings stroke 11,400 times per minute, thus making their distinctive buzz.
	A bee flies at a rate of about 12 miles per hour.
	How many eyes does a honeybee have? Five.
	The queen bee is the busiest in the summer months, when the hive needs to be at its maximum strength. She will lay about 1,000 to 1,500 eggs per day.
	In the cold winter months, bees will leave the hive only to take a short cleansing flight. They are fastidious about the cleanliness of their hive.
	Honeybees do not die out over the winter. They feed on the honey they collected during the warmer months and patiently wait for spring. They form a tight cluster in their hive to keep the queen and themselves warm.
	It takes 35 pounds of honey to provide enough energy for a small colony of bees to survive the winter.
	Honeybee colonies have unique odors that members flash like identification cards at the hive's front door. All the individual bees in a colony smell enough alike so that the guard bees can identify them.
	The honeybee is not born knowing how to make honey; the younger bees are taught by the more experienced ones.
	Some worker bees are nurse bees. Their job is to feed the larvae.
	A honeybee visits between 50 and 100 flowers during one collection flight from the hive.
	In order to produce 1 pound of honey, 2 million flowers must be visited.
	A hive of bees must fly 55,000 miles to produce a pound of honey.

	One bee colony can produce 60 to 100 pounds of honey per year.
	An average worker bee makes only about 1/12 teaspoon of honey in its lifetime.
		At the peak of the honey-gathering season, a strong, healthy hive will have a population of approximately 50,000 bees.
		It would take approximately 1 ounce of honey to fuel a bee's flight around the world.
	A Cornell University paper released in 2000 concluded that the direct value of honeybee pollination to U.S. agriculture is $14.6 billion annually.
	We should appreciate honeybees for their honey and pollination services. 80% of the pollination of the fruits, vegetables and seed crops in the U.S. is accomplished by honeybees
	Honey is the primary food source for the bee. The reason honeybees are so busy collecting nectar from flowers and blossoms is to make sufficient food stores for their colony over the winter months. The nectar is converted to honey by the honeybee and stored in the wax honeycomb
	The United States has an estimated 211,600 beekeepers.
	Honey contains vitamins and antioxidants, but is fat free, cholesterol free and sodium free!
	Not a spinach lover? Eat honey - it has similar levels of heart-healthy antioxidants!
	One antioxidant called "pinocembrin" is only found in honey.
	For years, opera singers have used honey to boost their energy and soothe their throats before performances.
	Honey is the only food that includes all the substances necessary to sustain life, including water.
	Honey has the ability to attract and absorb moisture, which makes it remarkably soothing for minor burns and helps to prevent scarring.
	Honey speeds the healing of open wounds and also combats infection.
	As recently as the First World War, honey was being mixed with cod liver oil to dress wounds on the battlefield.

	Modern science now acknowledges honey as an anti-microbial agent, which means it deters the growth of certain types of bacteria, yeast and molds
	Honey and beeswax form the basics of many skin creams, lipsticks, and hand lotions.
	Queen Anne of England, in the early 1700's, invented a honey and olive oil preparation to keep her hair healthy and lustrous.
	According to Dr. Paul Gold, a Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia, "people remember things much better after they've consumed glucose, a form of sugar found in honey."
	Honey is nature's energy booster! It provides a concentrated energy source that helps prevent fatigue and can boost athletic performance.
	Recent studies have proven that athletes who took some honey before and after competing recovered more quickly than those who did not.
	Honey supplies 2 stages of energy. The glucose in honey is absorbed by the body quickly and gives an immediate energy boost. The fructose is absorbed more slowly providing sustained energy.