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Meet woman who spend 33 days with about 5000 dangerous toxic Scorpios!
Bangkok: If you will see any single scorpion around your surroundings, then obviously your reacting will be very shocking and you will be feeling very scary as well, but do you think that what will be your reaction if you will came to know about a person who lives with dangerous toxic Scorpios around him or her?
Now, you must be feeling weird after reading this update for sure. Then let us tell you that in Thailand there is a woman who has spent near about 33 days with about 5000 dangerous Scorpios and she is popular with the name of ‘Queen of Scorpions’.
The 39-year-old woman, Kanchana Kaetkaew, kept poisonous scorpions for 3 minutes and 28 seconds on her face after which her name was recorded in the ‘Guinness Book World Record’.
Not only this, Kaetkaew has such a dangerous attachment for scorpions that she sometime keeps them even inside their mouth. We have provided some pictures along with this content that will clearly show her love for this species which proves itself that she is really a different and separate woman is this world.
Wince-inducing photos show Thailand’s ‘scorpion queen’ dangling the arachnids in her open mouth and letting them crawl over her face.
Meet the only woman in world who lives with 5000 dangerous toxic Scorpios for 33 days:
The fearless Kanchana did not bat an eyelid as dozens of the poisonous creatures roamed over her face at Ripley’s Believe it or not museum in Pattaya city, Thailand recently.
Kaetkaew, who is Ripley’s ambassador, holds the Guinness World Record for keeping a scorpion in her closed mouth for a staggering three minutes and 28 seconds.
She is the only Thai woman to hold two Guinness World Records. Her second World Record is for spending 33 days inside a 12-meter square glass enclosure with about 5,0000 alive Scorpions.
Kaetkaew achieved the record in a mall in Pattaya, a city on the Gulf of Thailand known for its nightlife and cabaret. There are almost 2000 species of scorpion, and around 40 are poisonous enough to kill a human.
They feast on anything from insects to mice, but can survive for up to a year without food or water. Despite having up to 12 eyes, scorpions have poor vision and rely on smell to detect their prey.
Scientists are still unsure why scorpions give off a bright green glow when they are under UV light. The animals use venom to turn the insides of their prey into liquid as they are unable to eat solids.
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Meghalaya Reserves Legalized Gambling and Sports Betting for Tourists
The State Scores Extra High on Gaming-Friendly Industry Index
Meghalaya scored 92.85 out of 100 possible points in a Gaming Industry Index and proved to be India’s most gaming-friendly state following its recent profound legislation changes over the field allowing land-based and online gaming, including games of chance, under a licensing regime.
The index by the UK India Business Council (UKIBC) uses a scale of 0 to 100 to measure the level of legalisation on gambling and betting achieved by a state based on the scores over a set of seven different games – lottery, horse racing, betting on sports, poker, rummy, casino and fantasy sports
Starting from February last year, Meghalaya became the third state in India’s northeast to legalise gambling and betting after Sikkim and Nagaland. After consultations with the UKIBC, the state proceeded with the adoption of the Meghalaya Regulation of Gaming Act, 2021 and the nullification of the Meghalaya Prevention of Gambling Act, 1970. Subsequently in December, the Meghalaya Regulation of Gaming Rules, 2021 were notified and came into force.
All for the Tourists
The move to legalise and license various forms of offline and online betting and gambling in Meghalaya is aimed at boosting tourism and creating jobs, and altogether raising taxation revenues for the northeastern state. At the same time, the opportunities to bet and gamble legally will be reserved only for tourists and visitors.
“We came out with a Gaming Act and subsequently framed the Regulation of Gaming Rules, 2021. The government will accordingly issue licenses to operate games of skill and chance, both online and offline,” said James P. K. Sangma, Meghalaya State Law and Taxation Minister speaking in the capital city of Shillong. “But the legalized gambling and gaming will only be for tourists and not residents of Meghalaya,” he continued.
To be allowed to play, tourists and people visiting the state for work or business purposes will have to prove their non-resident status by presenting appropriate documents, in a process similar to a bank KYC (Know Your Customer) procedure.
Meghalaya Reaches Out to a Vast Market
With 140 millions of people in India estimated to bet regularly on sports, and a total of 370 million desi bettors around prominent sporting events, as per data from one of the latest reports by Esse N Videri, Meghalaya is set to reach out and take a piece of a vast market.
Estimates on the financial value of India’s sports betting market, combined across all types of offline channels and online sports and cricket predictions and betting platforms, speak about amounts between $130 and $150 billion (roughly between ₹9.7 and ₹11.5 lakh crore).
Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Delhi are shown to deliver the highest number of bettors and Meghalaya can count on substantial tourists flow from their betting circles. The sports betting communities of Karnataka, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana are also not to be underestimated.
Among the sports, cricket is most popular, registering 68 percent of the total bet count analyzed by Esse N Videri. Football takes second position with 11 percent of the bets, followed by betting on FIFA at 7 percent and on eCricket at 5 percent. The last position in the Top 5 of popular sports for betting in India is taken by tennis with 3 percent of the bet count.
Local Citizens will Still have Their Teer Betting
Meghalaya residents will still be permitted to participate in teer betting over arrow-shooting results. Teer is a traditional method of gambling, somewhat similar to a lottery draw, and held under the rules of the Meghalaya Regulation of the Game of Arrow Shooting and the Sale of Teer Tickets Act, 2018.
Teer includes bettors wagering on the number of arrows that reach the target which is placed about 50 meters away from a team of 20 archers positioned in a semicircle.
The archers shoot volleys of arrows at the target for ten minutes, and players place their bets choosing a number between 0 and 99 trying to guess the last two digits of the number of arrows that successfully pierce the target.
If, for example, the number of hits is 256, anyone who has bet on 56 wins an amount eight times bigger than their wager.