Saturday, November 27, 2010

Barracuda Jumps into Boat and Bites

14-year-old Koral Wira was sitting on her family's yacht while her dad was fishing for sharks near Venice, Florida.Suddenly a 30 pound, 45 inch long barracuda large barracuda leapt out of the sea and latched on to her arm. Koral's dad was able to kill the fish with a fillet knife.Koral said the barracuda flew into the boat and chomped down...
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World's Smallest Gun

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World's Biggest Cheesecake

On 25 January 2009, in Mexico City, Mexico, Philadelphia of Kraft Foods Mexico was recognized by Guinness World Records as the creator of the largest cheesecake ever made.The colossal confectionery weighed 2,133.5 kg, had a diameter of 2.5 m and was 56 cm tall.The recipe for the world’s largest cheesecake included 800 kg of Philadelphia...
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World's Biggest Easter Egg

The Easter egg or Ukrainian ‘Pysanka,’ was constructed in 1975 to commemorate early Ukrainian settlements in an area east of Edmonton.Professor Resch was responsible for the entire Pysanka concept which required the development of new computer programs.The Pysanka is really an immense jig-saw puzzle containing 524 star patterns, 2,206 equilateral...
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Bursting a Bubble in High Speed Photography

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Monkey Who Adopts Kitten

A long tailed macaque monkey adopts a kitten in the forests of Bali, IndonesiaA young long tailed macaque monkey has been spotted in a forest protectively nuzzling and grooming a ginger kitten and making sure no harm came to it. The extraordinary sight was captured by amateur photographer Anne Young while on holiday at the Monkey Forest Park,...
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