Jackie Chan vs Bruce Lee, Who was the best

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With just 14 years separating their birth (Bruce Lee was born in 1940 and Jackie Chan in 1954), it was Lee’s untimely death in 1973 when he was just 32, that the world was denied any major collaborative work with both these great martial artists and actors sharing the same platform – as friends or foes.  Both of them had roots in Hong Kong, Lee after being born in the US was raised here while Chan was born and still resides in Hong Kong.

A short introduction to both

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Bhopal disaster, the terrible gas tragedy

The night of 2nd and 3^rd of December, 1984 still remains memorable in the minds of the people and the government of Madhya Pradesh because of what happened on that fateful night. This is the day the Bhopal Disaster happened. The Union Carbide India limited which used to manufacture and produce phosgene monomethylamine (MMA), Sevin which is also referred to as pesticide carbaryl and methylisocyanate is the industry involved in this disaster.
What happened is that the MIC storage tank with 40 metric tons of MIC mixed with water which entered the tank by mistake causing a chain reaction that led to;

• Rise in temperature
• Increase in pressure
• Led to further reaction of the steel tank producing a lot of gas
• MIC and vapor to escaped in to the neighboring village killing people in their beds and in the streets

Those who were affected by the gas were easy to note because they showed the following signs

• Vomiting
• Burning sensation in the eyes
• Burning sensation in the throat

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The second brain in human stomach

The human body is a machine that is full of wonders. Consider this fact – our stomach has neurotransmitters (nerve cells) similar to the brain means our stomach is our second brain.

Second Brain in Human Stomach:

According to Dr. Michael Gershon, M.D., author of `The Second Brain’ (HarperCollins, 1999), and a neurobiologist at New York’s Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, the stomach is our second brain with an independent network of over 100 million nerve cells in the gut, that not only signals our bodies to stress but causes  ailment. With the collection of around 100 million nerve cells, the stomach in fact contains the second largest accumulation of nerve cells in the human body after the brain.
What’s more, researchers have found all the typical cell characteristics

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Bill Gates – Interesting Facts and Coolest quotes

William Henry Gates, the person who never graduated from a college, is the current chairman and former chief executive of Microsoft. His net worth as on March 2012 was $61 Billion. He founded Microsoft in year 1975 along with his friend Paul Allen.
He was rated as the world’s youngest self-made billionaire in year 1987. He was listed in the pages of Forbes’ 400 Richest People in America issue when he was 32 years old.

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