Thomasson is the newly crowned world record holder for having the
largest collection of video games. He is featured in a two-page spread
in the just-released "Guinness World Records 2014 Gamer's Edition."
the path to the world record had a couple of restarts. He sold off his
collection twice, first in 1989 to raise money for a Sega Genesis, then
again to pay for his 1998 wedding. ("I was heavy into collecting when we
married so she knew what she was getting into," he says of his wife,
JoAnn.).
Since then, Thomasson has methodically rebuilt the collection,
averaging two games per day on a strict $3,000-a-year budget which means
never paying full price.
He estimates the collection is worth $700,000 to $800,000.
Thomasson designs games and teaches 2D animation, game design and the
history of video games at Canisius College in Buffalo. He also writes on
the topic for magazines and books.
Guinness lists the number of games in Thomasson's record-breaking
collection at 10,607, though he said the number exceeds 11,000 now, a
year after the official count and after discovering forgotten stashes of
games after the counting crew left.
The record was previously held by Richard Lecce in 2010 at 8,616 games
When Michael and Nova Smith didn't get the hash browns they ordered at McDonald's, they did more than chew out the employees, they allegedly called 911.
The victim of a sexual assault showed up to court to face her attacker. She was a goat.
Katana Kitsao Gona, a 28-year-old man from Kenya, was sentenced to 10 years in jail after admitting he had sex with a goat, KTN Kenya reported Friday.
The goat Gona was convicted of sexually abusing was present, brought there by prosecutors as evidence in the case.
Gona was caught committing the crime last Monday, Prosecuting Chief Inspector Jimmy Kema said.
The neighbor told prosecutors he went to urinate behind a bush, when he noticed clothes hanging on a tree. He investigated and found Gona, naked, having sex with the goat. The victim was tied up to graze, according to The Star.
The owner of the goat was alerted, along with other villagers who
caught Gona engaging in the abuse. Police
quickly took him into custody.
This goat was abused by a baaaaa-d man.
A report from the district's veterinary officer noted that blood was
found coming from its vulva, further evidence of sexual abuse.
Though Gona asked for a pardon in court, saying he had a disabled
wife who depended on him, Magistrate Mrs. Muthoni Nzibe gave him the
10-year sentence -- a record sentence in that court for bestiality.
KOLKATA: Sub kuch bikta hai (Everything Sells). When OLX India, which
claims to be the next generation of free online classifieds, adopted
this slogan, those in charge of the portal may not have thought it would
come to this.
On October 26, somebody uploaded the photograph of a young woman in an
advertisement and offered her for Rs 2,000. The name and telephone
number of a contact person was also given.
Captioned '22Years girl — Kolkata', the classified advertisement said:
"I am Soumen Barui i am the ajent of the girl. If u interest enjoying
this girl please contract me. please not on fake call."
When Barui was contacted on the telephone number published, he lost
his cool initially and said that it was a wrong number. On being told
that the caller wasn't interested whether he is actually an 'ajent', he
calmed down.
"You don't know how many calls I have received since
Sunday. People have been calling up and asking about some girl.
Finally, I checked the internet and realized that somebody had played
this prank on me. I don't know why somebody would want to cause me such
distress. Finally, I lodged a complaint with the Bijpur police station
in Kanchrapara. I realized that if I don't do so, I am liable to get
into legal trouble. I shall visit the police station on Wednesday again
and insist that the authorities try and find out who the prankster is,"
Barui said.
TOI got in touch
with Amarjit Batra, country manager, OLX India, on Tuesday afternoon.
He wasn't even aware that something like this has taken place. Keeping
the line on hold, he checked the site, and was taken aback by what he
discovered.
Police in South Carolina are investigating how a car ended up on the roof of a Forest Acres home early Saturday.
According to WIS-TV, an officer with Columbia police tailed the
vehicle after witnessing what looked like a drug deal. The driver took
off, driving erratically without headlights on.
The officer followed the vehicle and eventually came upon it wrecked on the roof of a suburban home.
The suspect was nowhere to be found, but investigators found crack cocaine and cash in the vehicle.
Homeowner Steve Taylor told WIS that he was awakened by a loud bang
around 2:30 a.m., and was told by police in his yard that there was a
car on the roof.
"I stepped out into the yard and looked back up, and there was a car
on the roof." Taylor said. "It was alarming as you can imagine... I
still didn't believe it, once I saw it."
Most of us have done something stupid after a night on the tiles... but not many of us woken up in Paris.
But that’s what happened to Luke Harding after going out in Oldham.
Luke, 19, was going home in a taxi from the Tokyo Project nightclub when he decided to visit the Eiffel Tower.
He
had his passport in his pocket because he had been using it as ID to
prove he was old enough to drink - and told the cabby to take him to
Manchester Airport where he boarded an early morning flight to France.
The
next thing he remembered was waking up in a toilet cubicle in Charles
De Gaulle Airport, almost 400 miles from his home in Oldham.
He later tweeted a photo of himself stood next to the Eiffel
Tower and a second pic with the caption: “Sat outside the Arc De Triumph
eating a croissant.”
The sheet metal worker said: “I went to drop
my friend off at his house in a taxi but for some reason I randomly
decided that I don’t want to go home but stay out instead.
“I
found my passport which I’d been using for ID and was looking at this
flight app on my phone and it was saying something like ‘cheap flights
to Paris’.
“I decided the best thing to do was book a flight to
see the Eiffel tower. It was just a spur of the moment thing and seemed
like a good idea at the time.
“The taxi driver asked me about
where I was going and what I was going to do in Paris but I couldn’t
bring myself to tell him I was a drunken idiot who spontaneously booked a
trip to Paris, so I sold him some story that I was a junior doctor
going to a convention.
“I don’t recall much of the flight because I
fell asleep and then the next thing I know I find myself lay next to a
toilet in a cubicle in the middle of Charles De Gaulle airport and
thinking what the hell have I just done?
“I rang my mum and said ‘don’t panic mum but can you pick me up at Manchester Airport at 8pm?’
"Then I told her what I had done and she went mental at me.
“I had 8 hours to kill so I booked a bus into Paris and had a wander around.
Where the night began: Tokyo Project nightclub in Oldham
"I did get to see the Eiffel Tower but there was a massive
queue so I didn’t get to go up it but at least I had my picture taken
outside the Arc de Triumph and I went to a cafe for coffee and a
croissant and sat outside.”
Since then Luke has become a Twitter sensation as news of his big night out spread.
Luke was inundated with messages from Twitter users amused by his escapade.
Dale Harris said: ‘“Don’t even know Luke Harding but I want to shake his hand.”
The Brazilian college student who attempted to sell her
virginity through an online auction last year is hoping lightning will
strike twice.
In October, 2012, Catarina Migliorini was offered $780,000 for her virginity from a Japanese millionaire who bid for the privilege through a controversial online auction.
That deal was never consummated, but now she is attempting to do it again through her own website, VirginsWanted2.com.
"Well, after being featured by so many media outlets in so many
countries, I decided to actually auction off my virginity," she told The
Huffington Post by email via a translator.
The bidding ends Dec. 12, but Migliorini said the minimum bid for her
to get into bed is $100,000. She told the Brazilian website
PurePeople.com.br that her goal is to get $1.5 million.
Migliorini's previous auction was part of a proposed documentary called Virgins Wanted being made by Australian filmmaker Justin Sisely.
The auction made Migliorini a celebrity and Playboy cover girl in her native country, but also aroused controversy and skepticism.
As Sachin Tendulkar retires at Wankhade Stadium against the West Indies on November 16, we bring to you some of the interesting facts about
the Master Blaster after his 200th Test.
35+ demographic represents more than 30% of the entire user base
71.2 % of all USA internet users are on Facebook
In 20 minutes 1,000,000 links are shared on Facebook
In 20 minutes 1,484,000 event invites are posted
In 20 minutes 1,323,000 photos are tagged
In 20 minutes 1,851,000 status updates are entered
In 20 minutes 1.972 million friend requests are accepted
In 20 minutes 2,716,000 photos are uploaded
In 20 minutes 2,716,000 messages are sent
In 20 minutes 10.2 million comments are posted
In 20 minutes 1,587,000 wall posts are written
750 million photos were uploaded to Facebook over New Year’s weekend
48% of young Americans said they found out about news through Facebook
48% of 18 to 34 year olds check Facebook right when they wake up
50% of active users log on to Facebook in any given day
Average user has 130 friends
People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook
There are over 900 million objects that people interact with (pages, groups, events and community pages)
Average user is connected to 80 community pages, groups and events
Average user creates 90 pieces of content each month
More than 30 billion pieces of content (web links, news
stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each month.
More than 70 translations available on the site
About 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States
Over 300,000 users helped translate the site through the translations application
Entrepreneurs and developers from more than 190 countries build with Facebook Platform
People on Facebook install 20 million applications every day
Every month, more than 250 million people engage with Facebook on external websites
Since social plugins launched in April 2010, an average of 10,000 new websites integrate with Facebook every day
More than 2.5 million websites have integrated with Facebook,
including over 80 of comScore’s U.S. Top 100 websites and over half
of comScore’s Global Top 100 websites
There are more than 250 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices
People that use Facebook on their mobile devices are twice as active on Facebook than non-mobile users.
There are more than 200 mobile operators in 60 countries working to deploy and promote Facebook mobile products
Al Pacino’s face was on the original Facebook homepage
One early Facebook function was a file sharing service
The first “Work Networks” as well as the original educational networks included Apple and Microsoft
The meaning of the term poke has never been defined
There is an ‘App’ to see what’s on the Facebook cafe menu
Mark Zuckerburg (CEO of Facebook) calls himself a “Harvard
Graduate” when in fact he didn’t graduate (apparently his reply is
that “there isn’t a setting for dropout”)
Australian’s spend more time per month on Facebook than any other country at over 7 hours on average
A Facebook employee hoodie sold for $4,000 on eBay
Facebook was initially bank-rolled by Peter Thiel the co-founder of PayPal for $500,000
It is the second biggest website by traffic behind Google (at the moment)
Facebook is now valued at approximately $80 billion
Facebook makes money through advertising and virtual products
Facebook was almost shut down by a lawsuit by ConnectU who
claimed that Zuckerburg stole the idea and Technology for Facebook
(the issue was settled out of court)
The USA has the largest Facebook user base with 155 million people which represents 23.6% of Facebook’s total users
There is over 16,000,000 Facebook fan pages
Texas Hold’em Poker is the most popular Facebook page with over 41 million fans
The "Walkie Talkie Building," a name Londoners have
given a distinctively shaped skyscraper near Saint Paul's Cathedral,
has been in the news this week after reflected sunlight from its
mirrored facade melted the side mirrors and panels on a Jaguar XJ parked
on a nearby street.
As children we have heard a lot many fairy tales but with those fairy
tales we have also heard some scary ghost stories as well. Well even
though we hardly recall the fairy tales but for sure we remember the
freaky ghost stories. They still haunt us in our dreams. If this is not
enough to digest then let us brief you about some best haunted places on
earth that would really give you that real jolt. Drowse yourself in a
pure hair raising experience.
Bhangarh Fort, India
Bhangarh
Fort / Castle is located on the way to Alwar and Jaipur in Rajasthan in
India. As per a legend there was a black magic sorcerer who cursed the
residents of the palace that they all would die an unnatural death and
their spirits will stay there for centuries to haunt the castle for time
immemorial. This fort would really freak any living mortal. One can
seldom find a temporary household in the close periphery of this fort.
Let us reveal you one more fact about this place. The village households
found here are without roofs as there persists a popular belief and
experience that the moment a rooftop is built on a house it collapses.
This is said to be the most freaky place in India. Believe us it is also
said that anybody who has been to this place after dusk never comes
back !
Highgate Cemetery, North London, England
This
is just like watching a horror flick of Alfred Hitchcock in reality. By
the time dusk settles down the ultimate horror environment starts to
descend on the panorama. Highgate cemetery is one ideal place for ghost
hunters. Headless statues, creaky pathways, unmanaged grass pavements
and lest we forget the typical hooting of owls is a common feature to be
found in this place. High gate cemetery also scores the top slot in
being the haunted places in United Kingdom. Still one cannot ignore the
Gothic architecture, beautiful serene ambiance and lest we forget the
shivery silence which overrules the entire arena!
Screaming Tunnel, Niagara Falls, Ontario
This
one is for those brave hearts boasting hard of their fearless spirits.
This is located beneath the railway track that connects Niagara falls to
Toronto and New York. As per a legend about a century ago there was a
farm house located just near the south entrance of this tunnel. One
night the farm house caught fire and a young girl doused in flame
screaming for help running wild.Nobody knows the story how the farm
house caught fire. She ran through the tunnel if in case she could get
some help but alas she was burnt completely and collapsed. So from that
day onwards whoever tries lighting a match in the tunnel the spirit
comes out screaming and haunting the person till dead.Some say you might also see the ghost of the girl’s father coming into the end of the tunnel.
Changi Beach, Singapore
Changi
Beach in Singapore is the ultimate one. The Changi beach in Singapore
is believed of being a popular killing ground of the Chinese soldiers by
the Japanese during the second world war. Thousands of Chinese soldiers
were tortured and killed during this operation as they were suspected
by the Japanese of getting into anti Japanese activities. This beach
stands witness to the killing of innumerable innocent chinese. Till date
beach combers thronging to this place could hear the screams and
weeping of people. Often at night people could also find deep dig pits
as that needed for burials of dead bodies. The most horrifying is that
some beach combers have found headless bodies of chinese soldiers on the
beach at night.
Monte Cristo, New South Wales, Australia
Monte
Christo mansion is recalled by travellers as a place which shouldn't
even haunt the memories. As per people's version Mrs Crawley the owner
of this mansion locked herself up after the death of her husband and
never came out in the rest 23 years of her life except for once. She
died in there and her spirit lingers in the mansion. Passerby could hear
the shrills and weeping of a woman. People who visit the mansion get
suffocated as if some spirit is trying to press in them. They get
respite of the shackles only when they come out. Instances have also
been cited of people turning blue.
The
following pictures of bridges around the world should be viewed with
caution because they might cause serious travel fever. The bridges’
vital stats are not only amazing because they are the world’s tallest
and longest; they also fulfill important environmental promises –
cutting down traffic, shortening trade routes, connecting countries, or
making car, train, bicycle or pedestrian travel not only faster but also
so much more stylish!
While sitting at your desk make
clockwise circles with your right foot. (go ahead no one will see you)
While doing this, draw the number “6″ in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change direction – that is a fact. Pretty interesting, huh? Keep on reading..
Residents of a small Scottish village
called Dull are confident they will become a "sister community" with the
US town of Boring.
Dull, in Perthshire, and Boring forged an
unlikely link when Elizabeth Leighton, who lives in Aberfeldy, near the
Scottish village, was on a cycling holiday in the US.
OSLO, Norway-- A paramedic from Norway who died recently was buried in a coffin decorated like an ambulance, his family said.
Before Paul Rorset was buried, his coffin was taken on a procession
to his childhood home and was then carried to Otroy church in Midsund
municipality by his co-workers, who dressed in full uniform, The
Local.no reported.
"He said that he wanted it, but he said it almost as a joke," his
daughter Jeanette Rorset told TV2. "But the ambulance service was such
an important part of his life, and he worked around the clock, so we
decided to do it."
The coffin was painted by the same company that paints the ambulances Rorset used to drive.
"They were a little skeptical of the mission at first, but later they
found it quite fun," said local undertaker Arild Kirkeland.
Bats are one of the only mammals known to feed on blood. They are also
the only mammals capable of flight. There are more than 900 species of
bats found all over the world; some experts say there are more than
1,200 species.
Serhiy Nazorovych Bubka is a retired Ukrainian pole vaulter. He represented the Soviet Union until it's dissolution 1991.Throughout
his athletic career he won multiple awards, such as six consecutive
IAAF World Championships, Olympics gold and broke the world record for
men’s pole vaulting 35 times!
China – A woman in northern China was rushed to hospital after she
was bitten by a snake that had been pickled in wine for three months.
The surprise attack happened after Liu, from Shuangcheng,
Heilongjiang Province, opened the bottle to add more alcohol, reports
the Global Times.
PATTAYA,
Thailand -- Hospital security guard Ekkachai Tiranarat, 44, and
33-year-old housewife Laksana locked lips for 58 hours, 35 minutes and
58 seconds, during the "kissing marathon" being held at Ripley's Museum
in Pattaya,
smashing last year's Guinness World Record by more than eight hours and
setting the new world record for the Longest Kiss.
At 80, Hussain Ali, a small farmer in Assam, is still going strong
but is a little worried as his third wife is expecting his 31st child,
even as he is busy cradling a bubbly two-month-old baby boy in the
courtyard, born to his fourth wife.
Edmonton, Canada resident, Sheila Taschuk took her Honda Element in
to a repair shop and was surprised when she received a speeding ticket
for a violation that occurred when the car was supposed to be at the
shop. As reported by Global News, the warranty work required that her
car stay at Boyd Autobody & Glass for two-and-a-half weeks.
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The belief that demons exist and can possess people is of course the
stuff of fiction and horror films — but it is also one of the most
widely-held religious beliefs in the world. Most religions claim that
humans can be possessed by demonic spirits (the Bible, for example,
recounts six instances of Jesus casting out demons), and offer exorcisms
to remedy this threat.
It may look like something you’d chuck on the barbecue without a second
thought, but this round of meat costs a very beefy £250,000 — as the
world’s first test-tube burger.
After the patty was lightly fried
in a little butter and sunflower oil yesterday, the two volunteers
chosen to taste it in front of a live audience were hardly effusive,
though.
‘I was expecting the texture to be more soft,’ said
Austrian food researcher Hanni Rutzler, taking 27 chews before being
able to swallow a mouthful. ‘It’s close to meat — it’s not that juicy.’
Devilishly stylish, ridiculously smart and seductively comfortable this
is a pool one can build for himself with not so many means but above all
else with a lot of brain, desire and the will to entertain himself.
It is physically impossible for pigs to
look up into the sky.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a
version of Alphabetti Spaghetti especially for the German
market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.
By law, every child in Belgium must take
harmonica lessons at Primary school.
On average, a human being will have sex
more than 3,000 times and spend two weeks kissing in their
lifetime.
Punjab, INDIA — 32-year-old Indira Mahajan was stoned to death today after being found guilty by the Haryana High court
of Punjab, India. Her husband, 51-year-old Bijan Kumar Mahajan said he
is thrilled with the ruling and says the court’s decision brings much
happiness to his friends and family.
Fact #21: Dogs are capable of understanding up to
250 words and gestures, can count up to five and can perform simple
mathematical calculations. The average dog is as intelligent as a
two-year-old child.
There’s no better way to learn than hands-on experience, and
hopefully that’s especially true for one law student who wasn’t doing so
hot in the classroom.
Jackson Milkman, who is currently in his third year at Thomas
Jefferson School of Law, is reportedly suing the school after school
officials told him he must retake a course in order to complete his law
degree program.
Pocket-sized pets remain one
of the most fascinating areas of the Guinness World Records database,
with petite dogs arguably the most popular of all our animal records.
Guinness World Records currently has two main categories for petite pooches: Smallest dog living (height) and Smallest dog living (length).
A vicious monkey attack at a wildlife park in Guiyang, China, maimed an 8-month-old boy, according to Chinese state media.
The boy's mother was changing his dirty diaper at Guiyang Qianling Wildlife Park, where monkeys roam free. The animal reportedly attacked the boy, tearing off his testicle
and dropping it. According to the Mirror, a man recovered the testicle,
but the monkey then "snatched it from his hand before scampering away
and eating it."
There is conflicting information about the attack. The Daily Mail reported that both of the boy's testicles were torn off, but that only one was eaten by the monkey.
The boy has been hospitalized. Though disfiguring, his injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.
Just two months ago, an Arkansas man paralyzed from the waist down
awoke to "burning pain" in his midsection, and was horrified to discover
that a stray dog he had taken in had eaten one of his testicles while he slept.
56-year-old Ashrita Furman of New York City has set 311 records since
1979 and still currently holds 123 of them (including the record for the
most records held at one time)! His first record was for the most
jumping jacks performed - a whopping 27,000!.
All of his records which he currently holds or previously holded are as follows:
Birthdays are known to be a costly affair and for a reason! Did you know
that if you sang “Happy Birthday to You” for commercial purposes, you
could be sued! Yes, The song “Happy Birthday To You” is not a public-domain composition. The publishing rights are owned by a subsidiary of Warner Communications, and a performance fee must be paid every time it is used for commercial purposes.
Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.
A goldfish is the
only animal that can see infrared and ultraviolet light.
One in 5,000
North Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
A snail can sleep for
3 years.
A group of jelly fish is called a smack.
The oceans contain 99 percent of the living space on the planet.
The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could
be confused at a crime scene.
There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.
There are about 100 breeds of cats.
A
tiger's paw prints are called pug marks.
Over
100,000 birds, whales,
seals and turtles worldwide are killed by plastic rubbish every
year. Marine life, in particular turtles, is prone to mistaking
plastic bags for jellyfish, ingesting them and dying of
intestinal blockage.
Infant beavers are called kittens.
The fastest bird, the spine-tailed
swift, can fly as fast as 106mph.
A bee must visit 4,000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.
Humpback whales create the loudest sound of any living creature.
Bald
eagles may use the same nest year after year, adding more twigs
and branches each time. One nest was found that had been used
for 34 years and weighed over two tons.
Great White Sharks can go as
long as three months without eating.
A bee can see the colors green,
blue and ultra-violet - but red looks like black.
A giant squid’s
eyes have a diameter of 15 inches which are the largest of any animal.
There is certainly plenty of fascinating aspects about whales to be aware of. You may be surprised at some
of the characteristics as well as behaviors of these delightful mammals.
1. Whales need to breathe air
You likely already know that whales breathe by taking in air though their blowhole. 2. Whales can’t sleep for very long?
This is because they have to remember to go to the surface for air as needed.
3. Whales' brain sleep one half at the time
In order to make sure that whales perform the basic functions to breathe, only one half of their brain will sleep
at a time. This is the only way that they are able to get the amount of rest that they need and still take care of
this function that is necessary for their bodies to survive. 4. Whale Males are not easy to
identify.
It is common for male whales to be misidentified out there due to the location of their genitals. When they aren’t
in use, these parts of the body are actually tucked inside of a cavity. This allows them to swim faster. Therefore
you do need to really look at other factors before you classify a whale as either male or female.
5. Whales are mammals, calves grow inside their mothers.
Do you know that newborn whales are born fin first which means the back end of their body first? Researchers
believe this is done so that the calf is less likely to drown when it is born. All of their young are born alive
and are able to be cared for immediately after birth. 6. Whales are cetaceans, mammals fully adapted to aquatic life.
Whales are believed to be the only mammals that are able to adapt to the changing environment in the waters. This
is important due to the impact that humans have had on their natural living environment.
7. Whales swim as fast as 30 miles per hour.
Whales can swim at a rate of about 30 miles per hour. However, most people think they are much slower because
they often don’t have to be in such a hurry so they simply glide around the water. 8. Whales have hair.
Most people don’t think that whales have hair but they do. However, it is very thin and very light so unless you
are seeing one up close you wouldn’t think it was there at all.
9. Whales are warm blooded.
Whales are warm blooded mammals so they have to keep a high body temperature. Since they don’t have much hair they
rely on layers of fat called blubber. You will find that the younger whales have more hair than the adults. As a
baby gets older it will develop more blubber and then the hair will start to disappear. 10. Whales are the largest animals in the world.
You likely are aware of the fact that whales can be extremely large. The Blue Whale is the biggest one out there.
Most experts agree that the Blue Whale is the largest mammal that ever been on Earth as well as the loudest. They
can be up to 105 feet long. The smallest whale is the Dwarf Sperm Whale. It is only about 8 feet long. 11. The most dangerous predators for Whales are humans
The only predator that whales have to content with are humans. They aren’t bothered by any other creatures in the
water. However, the changes to their food source, hunting by humans, and even pollution to the waters that they
live in can affect their abilities to survive which is why they continue to try to adapt to the environment that
they are in.
As you can see, there are plenty of facts that are fun to learn about whales. Exploring them in more detail is a
great way to enhance your knowledge of these amazing mammals. You may find that you want to learn all you can about
them because they are definitely interesting and enjoyable creatures.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.
Money isn’t made out of paper. It’s made out of cotton.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle.
A duck’s quack doesn’t echo. No one knows why!
The “spot” on the 7-Up comes from its inventor who had red eyes – he
was an albino. ’7′ was because the original containers were 7 ounces and
‘UP’ indicated the direction of the bubbles.
Chocolate can kill dogs, as it contains theobromine, which affects their heart and nervous system.
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster.
There are only two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: “abstemious” and “facetious.”
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow film down so you could see his moves.
The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed.
A MAN has been arrested after he stole 82 reinforced concrete slabs that made up a road in northwestern Russia.
The man, in his 40s, has admitted to using an industrial
manipulator to dismantle the slabs from the road that links the village
of Parcheg in the republic of Komi with the Vychegda River, The Moscow Times reports.
The
slabs, worth 200,000 rubles ($6,100), were then loaded onto three
trucks, which police later stopped, the regional interior department
said in a statement.
The man faces up to two years in prison for the theft.
Simply by taking a
little saunter across the female’s web, a male black widow can sense if a
female is hungry or not. Why does it matter? Because female black widow
spiders have a rather freaky habit of eating the male after mating.
It’s how they earned their dangerous name.
The Smell Of Safety
Males have developed this very useful technique, which tells them
whether or not a female has recently eaten. But if a female is hungry,
she would be more likely to cannibalize the male spider. They take a
sniff of those silk strands and then decide if they want to proceed or
scurry away. A new study discovered this interesting skill and published
the findings in the journal Animal Behaviour. So, how do researchers actually go about testing something like this? Feeding Time For The Ladies
First things first. The researchers fed a bunch of hungry female back
widow spiders. Using a cricket neatly held between forceps, they rested
it on the web and waited for the female to come over, wrap the cricket
in silk and chow down. The females got one cricket each week. Yet, by
the time the fourth week came around, they weren’t so hungry anymore and
didn’t really want to eat the crickets.
Another bunch of female black widow spiders were starved for a few
weeks. It apparently didn’t put their lives at risk, but they did get a
bit smaller. Now, let’s find out what happened when a male was placed on
the web of a well fed or a starved spider.
Since the male spiders can pick up scents with their feet, they were
able to figure out the difference from one female to another just by
walking on the web. Normally, a male black widow spider has a special
dance he does to court the female.
In this experiment, the males danced far more actively on the webs of
well fed females. Smart dudes! If anything, dancing and mating would
leave them ready to eat – not be eaten! Typically, they dance around for
an hour or two, which sure shows their dedication to the purpose. They
wave their legs and pluck and tap at the web in a unique way, so that
unlike prey they show the female they are interested to mate rather than
become dinner. If Only I Had Such Powers
Now I have a strong sense of smell but definitely nothing like these
male black widow spiders. It’s too bad because I’m really scared of
spiders even though I know most are harmless. If I had my way, I’d be
able to simply smell any spider from several meters away. That would
give my timid self enough time to run!
BEIJING: A Chinese father's bizarre method to beat the heat has become
an Internet hit in the country after he posted photos of his toddler
dressed in watermelon shorts.
The toddler's father in Wenzhou
city worked all day to create the fruit attire, complete with a
watermelon helmet and shoes, to keep the boy cool in the hot weather,
media reports said.
While most Chinese netizens think
watermelon shorts are adorable and funny, some believe they may be
uncomfortable due to the moisture in the fruit.
Dressing babies up in watermelons is a new trend in China, first reported by state news agency Xinhua last month.
The pictures of the baby in watermelon garb, doing rounds on the
Internet, were first posted on Sina Weibo, a Chinese microblogging
website, according to New York Magazine 'The Cut'.
Why are private sector psychiatrists
in the U.S trading their cozy lives for 4 years in the U.S Army ? For
the $272,000.00 Sign on bonus currently being offered.
The automatic popup bread toaster was
patented before the bread slicing machine. 1919 and 1928. That’s right,
people sliced their own bread for the toaster for almost a decade before
sliced bread was sold.
Meteorites were very important to
ancient Egyptians, they created jewelry from meteorites by hammering it
into shape making beads and other designs. The jewelry was often buried
with loved ones.
After spending 17 years underground,
2013 is the year the Cicada bug is expected to emerge by the billions on
the east coast of the United States. Some estimate trillions will
arrive.
The worlds largest yacht is 590 feet (approximately 197 yards) long and 94,000 horsepower.
The restaurant ‘White Castle’ is Americas oldest and 1st hamburger chain.
A team of students from Wilmington, Del., spent their entire summer vacation breaking a Guinness World Record.
The students from John Dickinson High
School erected a 112-foot tower of more than 500,000 LEGO bricks –
breaking the previous record set by the city of Prague in the Czech
Republic, who built a 106-foot tower, according to Gizmodo.
Instead of going to camp or on
vacation, the students spent their entire summer vacation building the
tower. The last brick was put into place Monday in front of Guinness
World Record Book representatives
A unique room in Sweden's Treehotel has been designed to blend seamlessly with
the surrounding landscape.
Scandinavian design has a reputation for being cool, subtle and discreet, so
it’s appropriate that the unique Mirrorcube room forms part of a Swedish
hotel.
HANOVER, Pa. (AP) — When farmer Ben Klunk tells people about the mutant corn he found, they're all ears.
Klunk
said Wednesday he discovered an ear of sweet corn with four heads on
his central Pennsylvania farm and has been keeping it in his
refrigerator.
Klunk
said that when he pulled the corn out of the crop he initially thought
there was mud holding it together, but his wife said that wasn't the
case.
"It started out as one," Marie Klunk said, "and then it split, and then another one split."
The
farmer, who's 81, said he's never seen corn multiply in such a way:
He'd never found a double- or triple-headed ear of corn, let alone a
quadruple one.
"And I've pulled a lot of sweet corn!" he said.
The
Klunks said they don't plan to eat the corn, which was pulled from
their farmland in Hanover, 20 miles southwest of the state capital,
Harrisburg, and was first reported by The Evening Sun newspaper. They
said if it stays fresh for another 10 days they'll enter it into a
contest at the South Mountain 4-H Fair.
But
the Klunks aren't sure it'll last that long in the refrigerator and
suspect it's already turning. If that happens, they said, they'll just
throw the mutated husk away.
A PREGNANT New Mexico woman has survived a bolt from the blue to give birth to a bouncing baby girl.
Authorities say Kendra Villanueva and the baby's father Ian Gordon
were watching fireworks with friends on July 4 when lightning struck
both of them in the front yard of an Albuquerque home.
“We were actually going inside because we heard the lightning and the thunder,” .
"The next thing we know, we woke up on the ground and everybody was just trying to keep us calm.”
Mother, father and baby survived relatively unscathed.
The couple named the baby Kimberly Samantha Rose Gordon and said they'll also call her "little Flash Gordon."
Ian Gordon says the new parents are hoping their new daughter will "run fast, or save the universe."
It's been just about enough time for 'Gangnam Style' to have slipped to the back of our minds, but this baby bear isn't having it.
Story continues after photo.
A SLEEP artist is set to appear at one of London's most
bizarre attractions after shocking sleep experts with his artistic
talents.
Lee Hadwin is a sleep artist who paints and draws whilst asleep Lee Hadwin, who is described as a
‘sleep walking artist,' has allowed a series of his drawings and
paintings as well as videos of him doing them, to be shown at popular
tourist attraction Ripley's Believe It Or Not!
On Friday, Lee
himself will make an appearance at the Piccadilly Circus venue where he
will be meeting members of the public and signing his prints, which he
creates whilst in a state of sleep.
"The Ripley’s Believe It or
Not! brand is such a good fit for my pieces," Hadwin said. "I’m excited
to have a pop-up exhibition somewhere that celebrates all that is
different and I hope that the visitors will enjoy my unusual talent and
the pieces I’ve created."
Hadwin has been described by the
Edinburgh Sleep Clinic and the Art World as truly "unique." He has been
studied by doctors and scientists both in the UK and overseas but his
nocturnal artistic activities are a still mystery.Despite having had no artistic training, he has been producing pieces of artwork in his sleep since the age of four.
However,
he is unable to produce such pieces whilst awake but his skills whilst
asleep have developed over the years to become more detailed and demand
for his pieces from art galleries and exhibitions across the globe
continues to grow.
If
you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also
have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make
change for a dollar.
The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.
In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.
Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.
The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
In the early days of the telephone, operators would pick up a call and
use the phrase, "Well, are you there?". It wasn't until 1895 that
someone suggested answering the phone with the phrase "number please?"
The surface area of an average-sized brick is 79 cm squared.
According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.
It’s probably fair to say that any
woman’s wardrobe simply wouldn’t be complete without a pair of striking
killer heels. From kitten heel slip-ons, sensible court shoes, and
sensational summer wedges, women today really are spoilt for choice when
it comes to footwear.
Heels
have been a part of fashion for many centuries but surprisingly enough,
these elegant shoes which give extra height and posture were not solely
reserved for women. Dukes and Monarchs alike (Louis XIV in particular)
were well known for their extravagant shoes with elaborate decorations
sometimes depicting scenes of battle. Back in those days, many shoes
that were custom designed for Louis XIV boasted a heel of anywhere up to
ten inches!
While heels are predominantly reserved
for women, there have been occasions throughout history where they have
featured heavily as a practical and fashion element for men. Let’s take
the Romans for example; both men and women wore sandals with a platform
heel, known as Cothurns, in an attempt to raise the wearer above the
mud and rubbish in the streets. Cowboy boots were first developed as an
attempt to stop the foot sliding through stirrups while on horseback,
and of course, who could forget the highly popular platform shoes worn
by both men and women during the 1970’s.
Originally reserved for the aristocracy,
heeled shoes soon filtered down the rungs of society and became
acceptable footwear for all. The heel itself became less of a practical
necessity and developed into what we see and wear today however, the
sight of a man gracefully strutting down the high street in six inch
stilettos is somewhat of a rarity nowadays.
One
caller reported maggots in her bin, another called for "pregnancy
pills" while another complained about a stolen parking space.
Greater Manchester Police dealt with an average of 3,571 emergency and non-emergency calls a day during April, May and June.
That increased by 19% in July, according to the force.
Diane
Grandidge, GMP's business lead for call-handling, said: "Every false or
inappropriate 999 call wastes precious time that could be spent dealing
with genuine emergencies.
"Apart from potentially putting
somebody's life at risk, misusing the 999 system is a criminal offence
and we have the power to prosecute people for making hoax calls.
"Each
day we receive dozens of calls about issues that the police are not
responsible for, such as noise nuisance, stray dogs and abandoned cars.
"Answering
these calls leads to delays in people trying to get through to us for
legitimate reasons so please think ahead and decide whether it may be an
issue for the council before picking up the phone."
Officers
reminded people to only ring 999 if there is a direct and immediate
threat to life or property, or if a crime is in progress, while for
general inquiries or to report less urgent crime or disorder, they
should call 101.
101 is available 24 hours a day, seven days a
week, and there is a single flat rate charge of 15p, no matter how long
the duration of the call, what time of day or whether you are calling
from a landline or mobile phone.
Calls about noisy neighbours,
stray dogs, graffiti, abandoned vehicles, fly-tipping or faulty traffic
lights should go to local councils.
At age 20, Kyle Kandilian of
Dearborn, Mich., has created a start-up business to fund his college
expenses, but it involves a roomful (in the family home) of nearly
200,000 cockroaches. The environmental science major at University of
Michigan-Dearborn breeds species ranging from the familiar household
pests, which he sells on the cheap as food for other people's pets, to
the more interesting, exotic Madagascar hissing roaches and rhino
roaches, which can live for 10 to 15 years. (Kandilian told the Detroit
Free Press in July that of the 4,000 cockroach species, only about a
dozen are pests.) Why not choose a more conventional "pet"? Because
"(m)ammals smell," he said. (Missing from the Free Press story: details
on the likely interesting initial conversation between Kyle and his
mother when he asked if he could have 200,000 cockroaches in the house.)
[Detroit Free Press, 7-28-2013]
Tallest Mountain on Earth from Base to Peak - Mauna Kea, Hawaii:
33,480 feet (rising to 13,796 feet above sea level) (10204 m; 4205 m)
Point Farthest From the Center of the Earth - The peak of the volcano
Chimborazo in Ecuador at 20,561 feet (6267 m) is farthest from the
center of the earth due to its location near the equator and the oblateness of the Earth.
Rotation on Axis: 23 hours and 56 minutes and 04.09053 seconds. But,
it takes an additional four minutes for the earth to revolve to the same
position as the day before relative to the sun (i.e. 24 hours).
Revolution around Sun: 365.2425 days
Chemical Composition of the Earth: 34.6% Iron, 29.5% Oxygen, 15.2%
Silicon, 12.7% Magnesium, 2.4% Nickel, 1.9% Sulfur, and 0.05% Titanium
Earth is gradually slowing down. Every few years, an
extra second is added to make up for lost time. Millions of years ago, a
day on Earth will have been 20 hours long. It is believed that, in
millions of years time, a day on Earth will be 27 hours long.
The centre of the Earth, its core, is molten. This
means that it is liquid rock which sometimes erupts onto the surface
through volcanic eruptions. This core is 7,500°c, hotter than the
surface of the
Sun!
From a distance, Earth would be the brightest of the planets. This is because sunlight is reflected
off the planet's water.
Lee Hadwin is a sleep artist who paints and draws whilst asleep 
Heels
have been a part of fashion for many centuries but surprisingly enough,
these elegant shoes which give extra height and posture were not solely
reserved for women. Dukes and Monarchs alike (Louis XIV in particular)
were well known for their extravagant shoes with elaborate decorations
sometimes depicting scenes of battle. Back in those days, many shoes
that were custom designed for Louis XIV boasted a heel of anywhere up to
ten inches!
