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Jyoti Amge is the world’s smallest woman, she is 18 years old and is only 2 feet tall.
Jyoti Amge (born December 16, 1993), a resident of Nagpur, India, is the world's smallest living woman according to the Limca Book of Records and Guinness Book of Records.
The man on the right is the world’s shortest man, Chandra Bahadur Dangi of Nepal.
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The world's largest playable guitar is 43.5 feet long and was built by a high school class in Texas.
The world's largest playable guitar is 43.5 feet long, 16 feet wide, and weighs in at 2,255 pounds. It was built by the Academy of Science & Technology in Woodlands, Texas in 2001.
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There is a 500-year-old statue of a man eating a sack of babies in Bern, Switzerland and nobody knows why.
The Child Eater of Bern or Kindlifresserbrunnen:
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An artist creates clouds indoors to photograph them!
Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde creates clouds indoors by carefully regulating a space’s humidity, temperature and light. "This intersection of science and art was recently named one of TIME magazine’s “Best Inventions of the Year 2012.”
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Mudpuppies are a type of salamander that makes noises that sound like a dog.
"Mudpuppies, also called waterdogs, are one of only a few salamanders that make noise. They get their name from the somewhat embellished notion that their squeaky vocalizations sound like a dog's bark."
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World's Biggest Burger Weighed 777 Pounds!
On Saturday, July, 2 2001, at California's Alameda County Fair, a record breaking burger was created. Guinness World Records officials were there to make it official. Here are the recorded stats:
Weight: 777 pounds
Thickness: 3 feet
Diameter: 5 feet
Amount of beef used: 600 lbs
Amount of lettuce used: 30 lbs
Amount of pickles used: 12 lbs
Amount of onions used: 20 lbs
Weight of bun: 110 lbs
Cooking Time: 14 hours
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Yellow Stone National Park is widely considered "America's best idea."
FUN FACTS:
1. There are over 40 major waterfalls in Yellowstone. 2. Yellowstone National Park was established on March 1, 1872, 20 years before Montana, Idaho and Wyoming were granted statehood. 3. Yellowstone has about 300 active geysers and about 10,000 thermal features. 4. Yellowstone produces 3.3 million acre-feet of water every year making it one of the riches sources for water in the western United States. 5. Twelve major rivers originate in the Greater Yellowstone area. 6. The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone is 20 miles long, 1,500 to 4,000 feet wide and 1,500 feet deep.
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Platypus venom can have you in excruciating pain for months! Even morphine doesn't work against it!
Many think of the platypus as just a cute furry little animal. I mean, what's not to love? It's got the bill of a duck, and the back end of a beaver. They're mammals, but they lay eggs! They seem harmless enough..right?
Well, as it turns out, the platypus has a dark secret..it's venemous! That's right. The duck-billed platypus is one of the few venemous mammals. It has poisonous barbs on it's hind limbs that delivers a very nasty sting, which causes excruciating pain. In fact, it's the only known neurotoxin that directly targets pain receptors! It has been compared to hundreds of hornet stings and can leave someone incapacitated for weeks!
The venom production peaks during mating season, as the venom is used against other males to assert dominance.
The voice of Shredder from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is actually Uncle Phil from The Fresh Prince of Bel Air!
James L. Avery, Sr. is an American actor best known as Philip Banks in the TV show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. He's also had various movie roles and has guest starred on several sitcoms.
What most people don't know however, is that he also provided the voice for Shredder in the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles television series.
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Ever wonder where the phrase 'take something with a grain of salt' comes from?
'Take something with a grain of salt' comes from the Latin addito salis grano. It can be found in Pliny’s Historia Naturalis, which was written in c. 77 A.D.. The full passage, from Book 23, section 149, is:
In sancutariis Mithridatis, maximi regis, devicit Cn. Pompeius invenit in peculiari commentario ipsius manu conpositionem antidoti e II nucibus siccis, item ficis totidem et rutae foliis XX simul tritis, addito salis grano: ei, qui hoc ieiunus sumat, nullum venenum nociturum illo die. (After the defeat of that mighty monarch, Mithridates, Gnaeus Pompeius found in his private cabinet a recipe for an antidote in his own handwriting; it was to the following effect: Take two dried walnuts, two figs, and twenty leaves of rue; pound them all together, with the addition of a grain of salt; if a person takes this mixture fasting, he will be proof against all poisons for that day.)
The phrase's English application dates to 1647 in John Trapp’s Commentary on Revelation of John:
This is to be taken with a grain of salt.
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In Neptune and Uranus it may rain diamonds!
Uranus and Neptune are nearly 4x the size of Earth. Scientists think that beneath an outer layer of hydrogen and helium, their atmospheres contain 10% to 15% methane, which is a hydrocarbon. Both planets are also believed to have temperatures anywhere from 3,000 to 12,000°F and pressures from 200,000 to 6,000,000 times the pressure of our atmosphere.
"In other words, possibly ideal conditions for producing diamonds."
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NASA taped over the original moon landing recordings.
In 2006, NASA discovered that the original recordings of the moon landing were missing. After some searching, it was discovered that they were part of some 200,000 tapes that were magnetically erased and re-used to save money.
The recording are not lost forever though; NASA found copies in the CBS News archives and some other recordings in the vaults at the Johnson Space Center which they used for digital restorations.
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The world's largest natural breasts belong to Annie Hawkins-Turner with a 102ZZZ Cup Size.
The largest natural breasts belong to Annie Hawkins-Turner (aka Norma Stitz). She has an under breast measurement of 43 in and an around chest-over-nipple measurement of 70 in. Her breasts total weigh 85 pounds!
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There are weird similarities between Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy.
Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846. John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.
Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860. John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.
Both were shot in the back of the head in the presence of their wives.
Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.
Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.
Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.
Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808. Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.
Lincoln was shot in the Ford Theatre. Kennedy was shot in a Lincoln, made by Ford.
Lincoln was shot in a theater and his assassin ran and hid in a warehouse. Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and his assassin ran
and hid in a theater.
Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.
In 1990, Coors debuted a line of bottle water.
Coors Rocky Mountain Sparkling Water was launched in 1990 and lasted only 2 years. It came in original, lemon-lime, and cherry flavors.
Paleontologists found two dinosaurs frozen in battle as fossils!
Velociraptor vs. Protoceratops!
This battle scene was found in Mongolia's Gobi Desert in 1971. These two dinos were most likely killed simultaneously after a sand dune collapsed. These photos are of a cast replica.
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A cyclops, albino shark was found in the Gulf of California!
Earlier this summer, a pregnant dusky shark was opened up by commercial fishermen in the Gulf of California. What they found inside was a rare albino shark fetus with just one eye in the middle of its head.
Researchers examining the shark claimed the eye's optical tissue was intact, yet the fetus would not have likely survived outside of the womb.
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