Around the World in 80 Days with Iron Maiden.

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS?... NOT QUITE.

On February 2nd, 2017, 27 year old Cassie De Pecol from Connecticut set a world record for visiting 

every country in the world in the fastest time.

She visted all 196 countries in 18 and a half months.

She spend 2 to 5 days in each country.

She smashed the existing record of three years and three months, set by previous record-holder Yili Liu.

HERE IS HER WEBSITE WITH HER AMAZING PHOTOS

IRON MAIDEN

Saddam Hussein's psychotic eldest son Uday owned an iron maiden torture device.

It was around 7 feet tall, three feet across and deep enough to house a grown man.

It was found his backyard in Baghdad.

The sarcophagus-shaped device is essentially a large, metal closet with long spikes on the inside door that closes to impale its victim.

It was clearly worn from  use.

It's nails have lost some of it's sharpness.

It lay on its side within view of Uday's first-floor offices in the soccer association.

As head of Iraq's Olympic committee and also of its soccer federation, he is known to have ordered the torture of athletes who performed below his expectations.

Players had their feet scalded and toenails ripped off for failing to win tournaments.

No player would dare admit to suffering such abuse, for fear of even worse.

IN THE NAVY

George Washington was the father of the Navy.

The U.S. Navy was disbanded following the Revolutionary war in 1785.

The last ship was the Alliance.

It was brought back in 1794 mostly to fight pirates.

Metro-phobia is the fear of seeing, hearing or writing poetry.

People with this fear tend to dislike seeing, hearing or writing poems. Metro-phobia is considered to be a specific phobia.

It is believed that heredity, genetics, and brain chemistry combine with life-experiences to play a major role in the development of phobias. 

The symptoms typically include extreme anxiety, dread and anything associated with panic such as shortness of breath, rapid breathing, irregular heartbeat, sweating, excessive sweating, nausea, dry mouth, nausea, inability to articulate words or sentences, dry mouth and shaking.

It is important to note that medicines do not cure phobias, at best they only temporarily suppress the systems. 

However, there are treatments for phobias, which include counseling, hypnotherapy, psychotherapy, and Neuro-Linguistic programming.