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However, if playgrounds like this were situated near us, it might’ve been a different story.

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Well, if your name is Lego, you might actually be able to do that, and that makes you the most invaluable best friend to a Winnipeg boy named Tupper.

Before Lego came along, things were rough for 3-year old Tupper and his family. Tupper has ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) and that plays havoc with his mind and actions, but ever since Lego came into the picture, Tupper’s been a changed kid

Over the last 3 years, there’s been challenges, and one of them is nightmares. Once upon a time, Tupper was sleeping maybe 6-8 hours a night, but waking every 20-40 minutes, inconsolable with nightmares. Last December, Lego was assigned to train with Tupper and his family by MSAR Service Dogs in Manitoba, and by February he was a part of the family for one simple reason; he’s exactly what Tupper needed.

Any time that Tupper started to have a nightmare, Lego would crawl into bed and cuddle with him until he fell asleep. What was once a long night for everyone, is now a night of restful sleep for Tupper. Sometimes he’ll go 10 hours straight without a sound or waking up, as long as Lego is beside him.

Lego also helps outside the bedroom too, guiding Tupper out of the waking nightmare of uncontrollable actions such as banging his head against the wall, screaming, biting and scratching. All Lego needs to do is put his paw on Tupper, and he stops.

Tupper also doesn’t break away and run from his parents anymore either. There once was a great fear that he’d relentlessly run into traffic, but now Lego can help corral his impulses. If Tupper does break away, Lego can catch him and keep him contained until his parents arrive.

And while Lego is technically ‘working’ to keep Tupper distracted when disregulation sets in, the two of them have become inseparable. There’s nothing like the bond between a boy and his dog, especially when the two of them need each other.

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Frank Lucas
Remember that epic Ridley Scott film where Denzel Washington played a smooth Harlem drug lord? Of course you do, “American Gangster” is a classic. That film was loosely based on Frank Lucas, and he was the king of the drug trade in New York at one point, by changing the way drugs were distributed in Harlem. Instead of the traditional model, he cut out the middle man and got his Heroin straight from Asia and then put it on the streets.

He’s been in and out of jail since the 70’s, but as of 1991, he’s a free man.

Griselda Blanco
Despite the fact that she looks like a sweet lady who’ll bake you empanadas and sing sweetly in Spanish, she was one of the nastiest and most psychotic drug dealers in Colombia. Working within the Medellin Cartel, she brought the Cocaine trade to Miami and over her career, she was responsible for over 200 assassinations and murders. Jailed for two decades, she was taken out as soon as she was released from prison.

Amado Carrillo Fuentes
Starting his career in Chihuahua, Mexico, he eventually became known as the “Lord of the Skies” as he was notorious for transporting his drug shipments with large jet fleets. As his notoriety grew and rivals and authorities were closing in on him, he went to a plastic surgery clinic to get his features changed, and he never made it out alive. He’s supposedly the most lucrative criminal of all time, as during his short career, he earned about $25 Billion dollars as his net worth, when he died.

Ismael Zambada García
Now that El Chapo is in prison, Garcia is the sole head of the Sinaloa Cartel and on every most wanted list in the world. He’s definitely smarter than his partner, and has resorted to plastic surgery to move around Mexico and continue importing cocaine and heroin into the U.S. The current bounty on his head is $5 Million, and that’s just to point the FBI in his direction.

Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar
Not only is he the only drug baron from India, he’s also got ties to terrorism and Bollywood. He’s involved in pretty much anything that’s criminal, from smuggling, extortion, arms dealing, counterfeiting, match fixing and assassinations, and currently his fortune is estimated to be in the billions.

Arturo Beltrán Leyva
As the head of the Beltrán-Leyva Cartel, this guy did it all: marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin production, wholesaling and transport, innumerable counts of laundering, kidnapping, smuggling, extortion, gun-running, torture, contract killing and just straight up good old-fashioned murder. He died in a shootout with Mexican Marines in 2009 after a two-hour shootout. Yikes!

Khun Sa
Born in British Burma, this warlord was the master of the Opium Trade in the Golden Triangle (Myanmar, Laos, Thailand). He built his own army that he used to protect his empire and made a mint in smuggling opium all over the world. From time to time, he would offer deals to the U.S and Australia, offering to sell his opium fields to them for a hefty sum, so that they destroy them, or manage them themselves, but no one took the offer.

He surrendered to the Burmese government in 1996, but they refused to extradite him, and he died a free and wealthy man in 2007.

George Jung
The only other American born drug dealer on this list, Jung’s life was fictionalized in the film “Blow,” where he was played by Johnny Depp. From Boston, he got involved in smuggling marijuana and while in prison, learned about the cocaine trade. He joined the Medellin cartel and made millions until he was arrested in 1987. He skipped bail and was on the lam until 1994, when he was jailed. As of 2014, he’s been released and living in a halfway house.

“Freeway” Rick Ross
No, not the rapper, the original Rick Ross was perhaps one of the most successful cocaine dealers in L.A. Rumour has it that he single handedly ignited the crack cocaine epidemic in the states, and at one time was moving metric tons of Cocaine through L.A. in the 80’s. In one day, he supposedly made $3 Million dollars, so you can imagine how good he was at his job. He was arrested and set for a life in prison in 1996, but through an appeal, was released in 2009.

Pablo Escobar
And who could forget the most famous drug dealer of all. At one point, Escobar was responsible for 80% of the cocaine that entered the U.S. During his lifetime, he was the richest drug dealer of all time, with a net worth of over $30 Billion. What makes him even more notorious, was that he was a nice guy. In the 80’s and 90’s, while he was running the Medellin Cartel, he was also building hospitals, churches and schools like a modern day Robin Hood. He was killed after a long search in 1993.

Guess we know how the Netflix series Narcos is going to end.

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There is no antidote to their toxins, and a single fish can kill up to 30 adult humans. Their skin, muscle tissue, liver, and gonads contain tetrodotoxin, which is nearly 1,200 times more poisonous than cyanide.

Poison Dart Frog

The toxins that these beautiful looking frogs release can kill up to 10 men per frog. Keep in mind, these guys are typically about an inch long. The indigenous tribes of Colombia would use the frog’s venom for their poison blow darts!

Inland Taipan

Drop for drop, this snake has the most toxic venom in the snake world. Venom from a single bite can kill someone in 30-45 minutes if left untreated. To make it even sketchier, this snake can strike several times with an insane amount of speed and accuracy, and it releases it’s venom on almost every hit it lands.

Brazilian Wandering Spider

Rated as the most venomous animal on the planet by The Guinness Book of World Records in 2007, this big ass spider can render you impotent. That is right, it’s bite can give you a raging, but uncomfortable hard on for hours and eventually leave you with a sad case of impotence.

Stone Fish

The stone fish camouflages easily with the ocean floor, making it an accident waiting to happen for some divers. Their spines contain a toxin that can cause you to swell up and go into shock before ultimately dying. Although there is a treatment available for the toxin, it needs to be taken almost immediately, which isn’t the easiest thing to do when you’re swimming on the ocean floor.

Death Stalker Scorpion

With a name like that, you really should be worried when you run into these bad boys. They’re also translucent in appearance making them all the more hard to spot. These guys are considered the most dangerous kind of scorpion, who’s sting will be extremely painful- but wont kill a healthy human being. Children, elderly people, and people with heart problems or allergies have a higher likelihood of death through the death stalker’s sting.

Blue Ringed Octopus

The very definition of small but deadly, these guys are about the size of a golf ball. Their venom can cause blindness, paralysis, nausea, and death- making it one of the deadliest creatures in the sea. Look but don’t touch.

Marbled Cone Snail

There is no treatment for the Cone Snail’s toxin. If you’re lucky and only get a small dosage, you’ll experience swelling, tingling, numbness, and inflammation. However, the unlucky few who get a higher dose of it’s toxin will suffer through vision loss, respiratory failure, paralysis, and death. You won’t find any Marbled Cone Snail escargot in restaurants around the world, that’s for sure.

King Cobra

The King Cobra is one of the most menacing looking deadly creatures in the world. Instantly recognizable by their hoods, these guys have the ability to spit their venom at victims. Just a tiny bit of King Cobra venom can kill a full grown elephant, or, 20 adult humans.

Box Jellyfish

Here it is, the thing that is considered by most to be the deadliest living thing in the world (that isn’t a human). The Box Jellyfish is nearly invisible when you’re not looking directly at it, and it’s toxin can cause high blood pressure and death in a very short amount of time if not treated. If you ever find yourself stung by one, submerge the affected area in vinegar as you get yourself to a hospital ASAP!

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Eminem has been in his fair share of feuds, throwing down some wicked diss tracks along the way. With songs like “Bully,” “Nail in the coffin,” “Girls,” “The Sauce,” “Can I Bitch” and “The Warning,” it’s easy to see why The Game was quick to end any possible beef with Marshall. Unfortunately for Drake and his team of ghostwriters, his half-challenge to Eminem took the internet by storm and now, well, there’s no hiding.

Here are a few memorable lines from Eminem’s brilliant career that gave him the right to be called one of the greatest in the game.

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This 42-lettered monstrosity is just a long scientific name for a species of fly in Thailand.

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

Sir… I don’t quite know how to say this…but you have Pneumon..oultramicroscopicsili..covolcanoconiosis? It’s a type of lung disease.

Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism

This is a condition associated with the resistance to the parathyroid hormone

Floccinaucinihilipilification

This is a word used to describe the estimation of something as “valueless.”

Antidisestablishmentarianism

This word is used to describe any opposition that is looking to withdraw government support from a church.

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Mary Poppins says that it’s a word you can use when you simply have nothing to say. It’s even in the Oxford Dictionary!

Strengths

I know what you’re thinking, this ain’t even a long word motha-licka. However, “strengths’ is one of the longest monosyllabic words in the English language.

Euouae

At 6 letters long, Euouae is the longest word in English that consists of only vowels. It was used as as a musical term in the Middle Ages.

Antitransubstantiationalist

This is a fancy word to describe someone who doubts that the host and wine don’t actually turn into the body and blood of Christ.

Methionylthreonylthreonylthreonyg….

I apologize for not typing out the entire word here, but it’s 189,819 letters long. It is the full chemical name for the human protein, Titin.

Subdermatoglyphic

This word holds the title for the longest isogram: a word in which no letters are repeated. What does it mean? Well it is used to described the underlying dermal matrix that determines the crazy shapes in our finger prints.

Hepaticocholangiocholecystenterostomies

This is the longest word in Gould’s Medical Dictionary. It’s used to describe “the surgical creation of a of a connection between the gall bladder and a hepatic duct and between the intestine and the gall bladder.”

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian

This word means “pertaining to a very long word.” As in: this post is filled with Hippopotomonstrosesquipedalians!

Honorificabilitudinitatibus

This is an Old English word that describes the state of being able to achieve honours.

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It’s funny to think that tigers are just massive cats. They do all the same things that house cats do, just they’re a lot more dangerous. Like this here, they’re hanging out and cleaning each other. Isn’t that adorable? But, this wasn’t always the way Aasha, a Bengal Tiger lived.

When she was 9 months old, she weighed only 30 pounds. That is about as heavy as a normal 3-month-old tiger should weigh. She was living the unfortunate, cruel life of a travelling circus animal. She was mistreated as well as picked on by a much bigger tiger.

Fortunately, Vicky Keahey of Texas’ In-Sync Exotics Wildlife Rescue and Educational Center, decided to do something about it. She took Aasha in and nursed her back to health.

Keahey said that “Aasha’s bald spots covered almost her entire body and her skin was dry (with) cracked, darken areas and bleeding.”

Twice a day, every day, Keahey would give her medications and medicated baths in the hopes of curing Aasha of her ringworm and open wounds. It took several months, but Aasha started to grow into the big beautiful cat she was meant to be.

Aasha was finally introduced to a bigger tiger, Smuggler, who apparently “went crazy for her and was always showing off for her.” Break out the tissues, because this story just grabs your feels and rips them apart.

She even became fond of playing in water!

Aasha now lives in the same enclosure as Smuggler, and the two love each other like no other.

She even likes to play “human” and dramatically look outside of the window!

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Maybe this guy is hiding in a palm tree.

Is that a…Mii?

This one is hiding in the museum posing as a caveman.

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Winston sported the classic anchor on his forearm.

Czar Nicholas II.

Nicholas went on a trip to Japan in 1891. Not only did he survive an assassination attempt, he got a dragon tattoo’d on his right arm.

Thomas Edison.

Thomas came up with the electric pen, which eventually turned into a tattoo gun. So it’s only right that he had a tattoo. He had a quincunx, a geometric pattern consisting of 5 dots, on his forearm.

John Wilkes Booth.

This fella had a tattoo of his own initials in his right hand: J.W.B.

King Harold II.

King Harold II, who was slain at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, was clearly a sucker for love, as he had his wife’s name, Edith, tattoo’d across his chest.

Barry Goldwater.

The political figure who’s public image and reputation earned him the nickname “Mr. Conservative” was in fact a tattoo man himself. The underside of his left hand is marked with a half circle and several dots. The symbol is that of the “Smoki People”, an organization that aims to help preserve Native American culture.

George Orwell.

The famous author had his knuckles tattoo’d with blue dots. He got them done during his days as an officer in Burma, where the dots were said to protect the wearer.

James Polk.

Perhaps this is where the infamous trend of getting Chinese characters tattoo’d on you started. The 11th president of the U.S.A. had the character for “Eager” tattoo’d on him.

Theodore Roosevelt.

Teddy had one of the most bad ass tattoos on the list. He had the Roosevelt family crest on his chest.

Andrew Jackson.

Andrew had a large tomahawk tattoo’d on his inner thigh. The 7th president of the U.S.A.

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G.R.U. , Russia

Otherwise known as the Glavnoye Razvedyvatel`noye Upravleniye, these guys are a major player in global intelligence. They mainly focus on defense intelligence as well as military espionage- especially away from Russia.

M.I.6. , U.K.

Otherwise known as the Directorate of Military Intelligence Section 6, these guys have been around for over a century- although they have only been “officially acknowledged” since 1994. Their job is to look all over the globe for anything that could possibly impact political or economical interests in the United Kingdom.

R.A.W. , India

RAW, or the Research and Analysis Wing is located in New Dehli. It’s chief contacts India’s PM directly, and keeps an eye out on possible threats from around the globe. It is believed that they employ around 8,000 field agents worldwide.

C.I.A. , U.S.A.

The Central Intelligence Agency is the largest in the world. They play a large role in ensuring that the U.S.A. remains as the worlds largest super power. They also work with other countries to combat global terrorism.

M.S.S. , China

The Ministry of State Security takes the cake when it comes to active Chinese intelligence agencies. They are constantly working to track and neutralize any enemies of the communist party of China. Their goal is to maintain the rule of Communism in the country.

I.S.I. , Pakistan

The ISI is Pakistan’s Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence. These guys are supposedly one of the more notorious agencies in the world. Their job is to provide security intelligence to their government. Unfortunately, they have also been known to have caused trouble in India.

B.N.D. , Germany

The BND, or if you’re slightly more daring, the Bundesnachrichtendienst, is Germany’s major intelligence agency. They alert the government of any possible threat. They have agents all over the world- approximately 4000 of them.

A.S.I.S. , Australia

The Australian Secret Intelligence Service was a secret to it’s own government for over 20 years. Their main objective is to keep an eye out on all possible threats to Australia.

Mossad, Israel

Mossad, which means Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations, is one of the most powerful intelligence agencies in the world. They have agents all over the world that are gathering intel to help in ‘protecting Jews and Jewish interests’.

D.G.S.E. , France

The long for it is The General Directorate for External Security. Built for the same purpose as the C.I.A. , they claim to have prevented 13 major terrorist attacks in France since 9/11. They apparently employ approximately 5,000 spies around the globe.

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