Medusa, the world’s largest snake weighs more than 300 lbs (135 kg), is 25ft (7.5 meters) long and it takes 15 people to hold her. Medusa, a massive python is set to slither into the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s largest snake living in captivity. The giant snake, which will be on display at the Edge of Hell haunted house attraction in Kansas City, eats a 40lb animal about o…
Sep 23 2011 | Posted in
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“It will be the biggest star of the park,” said Mayor Elorde. “The villagers, of course, are very happy that they have been able to turn this dangerous crocodile from a threat into an asset.” But the 37,000 people who live in the region have been told not to rest on their laurels. Many other large crocodiles remain in the rivers and people have been told not to venture into marsh areas alone at n…
Sep 6 2011 | Posted in
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…went about his daily business as if nothing had happened. He says he finally agreed to go to hospital after pressure from family, neighbours and police. The incident took place on Tuesday in a village 200 km (125 miles) south-east of Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu. The snake he killed is reported to have been the common cobra. Nepal has a wide variety of snakes, many of which are venomous –…
Aug 23 2012 | Posted in
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Mark Moffett, a nature-lover has revealed how he spent two days tracking down a giant insect, weta, on a remote New Zealand island – and got it to eat a carrot out of his hand. Mark Moffett, 53, from Colorado, found that giant weta, genus Deinacrida of the family Anostostomatidae, is the world’s biggest insect in terms of weight. The insect weighs 71g and is heavier than a sparrow and three…
The world’s largest book has been put on public display in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)’s Dubai at IBN Battuta Mall. The book, named “This is Muhammad”, entered the Guinness World Records as the world’s largest book on February 27. It took professional workers 16 months to finish the 5-meter-long, 4.03-meter-wide and 1.5-ton book, which is estimated to be worth 2.9…
Mar 18 2012 | Posted in
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Workers at Everglades National Park, Florida captured and killed a 16-foot-long Burmese python, who was found to have a whole adult deer in its stomach. The Burmese python, one of the biggest ever found in South Florida, had recently swallowed a doe the size of a child. An autopsy was conducted at Everglades National Park by Skip Snow, a python specialist who said the reptile had a girth of 44 in…
…g through the waters of an Icelandic river have been captured last week by Hjörtur Kjerúlf The notorious “snake-like” creature is said to live in the Lagarfljót lake, which is 25 miles long and 367 feet deep – and it has been the subject of many a supposed sighting since reports of it first emerged in 1345. However, an expert on the legendary Lagarfljótsormurinn lake beast believes th…
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has announced this week a massive, month-long hunt for Burmese pythons in the state – offering a $1,500 prize to the person who harvests the most snakes. The Commission’s 2013 Python Challenge kicks off on January 12th as an initiative to inform the public of the dangerous impact of the tens of thousands of snakes that are threaten…
Dec 9 2012 | Posted in
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…pected to fetch $1.15 million Despite the doubt, Jeff Nechka said that he was confident the stone has been priced accordingly. “If it was solid, untreated emerald, you would be looking at 10 or 20 times the value for sure,” Jeff Nechka told JCK. Regan Reaney, the Calgary gem wholesaler who is selling the stone, told JCK that anyone who questions the stone is welcome to examine it. “This is…
Venomous reptiles may provide a good source for new drugs for human diseases, British researchers in Liverpool say. Venom has already been used to create drugs, but the chemicals in it are often too deadly for human consumption. However, a study, published in the journal Nature Communications, has shown snakes and lizards have “reclaimed” some toxins and used them, safely, elsewhere i…
Sep 19 2012 | Posted in
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The Tropical Islands Resort in Krausnick, Germany, is the world’s largest indoor beach with 400 sunloungers – and not a cloud in sight. Yet with up to 6,000 visitors allowed in at a time, there are bound to be towel-fights over them – especially as this “indoors paradise” is in Germany. The Tropical Islands Resort in Krausnick, south of Berlin, also boasts the largest indoor pool, 50,000-p…
Nov 23 2012 | Posted in
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Lolong, the one-ton crocodile caught in Bunawan, Philippines, has been named the world’s largest saltwater crocodile in captivity. The Associated Press reports that Lolong was caught by locals last September. On Monday, the Guinness Book of World Records declared that the 20.24 feet, 1000 pound crocodile was the largest in captivity. At the time of the crocodile’s capture, Mayor Edwin Cox Elorde…
Jul 3 2012 | Posted in
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;t afford to support my family on $16,000 a year,” Sarah Gilbert a striking worker in Seattle told AOL. According to Glassdoor.com, the average Wal-Mart sales associate earns $8.83 an hour. If working 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year, their annual salary would be $18,400. On Wednesday the latest public smear against the company came from the mouth and public arrest of a former employee seen handcu…
Nov 16 2012 | Posted in
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imes the daily recommended allowance of 2,500 calories for a man. The gastronomic gauntlet is the latest in what the eatery hopes will be a long line of food challenges and follows the creation of the 3 lbs cheeseburger, which has yet to be successfully tackled by any contender. Dean Key, 30, director of Smokey’s, said he began seeking out a new challenge following his customers failed attempts to…
Oct 22 2012 | Posted in
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A new world record for the largest ukulele ensemble has been set in Yokohama, Japan, at the Ukulele Picnic Week event. More than 2,000 strummers gathered in Yokohama, Japan’s second-largest city, to trump the previous record set in Sweden. The group was watched by Guinness World Records officials, AFP news agency said, and played a song called Aloha Mahalo A Hui Ho, written by a Hawaii-born…
Australia announces that it will create the world’s largest network of marine parks ahead of the Rio+20 Earth Summit. The reserves will cover 3.1 million sq km of ocean, including the Coral Sea. Restrictions will be placed on fishing and oil and gas exploration in the protected zone covering more than a third of Australia’s waters. Environment Minister Tony Burke, who made the announc…
…ses who cannot get money from the big, official, state-owned banks. Li’s private financier naturally invested the money in property, and paid him interest every three months at the rate of about 40% a year. He had put the equivalent of over $1 million into such schemes. For two years they paid out, but last year the interest payments began to dry up. Then one of the financiers disappeared. T…
Mar 17 2012 | Posted in
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mers and engineers used an instrument called Pionier, which replaces a multitude of mirrors with a single optical microchip. Although the first attempt to combine the four telescopes happened in March 2011, it did not really work, said Jean-Philippe Berger, a French astronomer involved in the project. But this time, it was already pretty clear that all the instruments were working correctly, Jean-…
incredible dimensions leave the next biggest floundering in its wake, with the Orthlieb in Morocco measuring a mere 1,575 ft long. Crystal Lagoons in numbers: • Capacity: 66 million gallons • Length: 3,323 ft • Area: 20 acres • Depth: Up to 115 ft • Temperature: heated to 26C • Estimated cost of construction: $1.6 billion • Cost of upkeep: $3.2 million a year • Construction time: almost 5 years •…
Huntharnghanki, another Ziona Chana’s wife said the entire family gets along well. The family system is reportedly based on “mutual love and respect”. Ziona Chana, whose polygamous religious sect has 4,000 members and whose grandfather also had many wives, says he has not stopped looking for new wives. “To expand my sect, I am willing to go even to the U.S. to marry,” he said. One of Ziona Chana’…
Oct 20 2011 | Posted in
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esses is enhanced,” said Robert Yi, head of investor relations at Samsung. Samsung said its IT and mobile communications division, which manufactures the smartphones, made an operating profit of 4.27 trillion won during the period, as revenues in the division surged 86% from a year earlier. Samsung Electronics has overtaken Nokia to become the world's largest maker of mobile phones Sams…
ged our economy into a crisis that put millions out of work, saddled us with more debt, and left innocent, hardworking Americans holding the bag. In the six months before I took office, we lost nearly 4 million jobs. And we lost another 4 million before our policies were in full effect. Those are the facts. But so are these: In the last 22 months, businesses have created more than 3 million jobs….
…nd December 2010. The company also will launch a $250 million program for 16 million current owners to provide supplemental warranty coverage for certain vehicle components, and it will retrofit about 3.2 million vehicles with a brake override system. An override system is designed to ensure a car will stop when the brakes are applied, even if the accelerator pedal is depressed. The settlement wou…
Dec 27 2012 | Posted in
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Movie Star News Collection, one of the largest collections of old Hollywood photographs, has been gone up for auction this week. Guernsey’s auction house in New York is holding a two day sale from April 6-7 to sell the Movie Star News Collection of 3 million photographs and negatives that capture the history of Tinseltown. Guernsey’s auction house in New York is holding a two day sal…
Apr 7 2013 | Posted in
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d by researchers as “borderline significant”, but the total number of days spent with flu was reduced from 850 to 672, a “highly significant” change. Recurring infections were cut from 100 episodes in 43 patients to 65 episodes in 28 patients, a difference of 59%, the authors wrote. Roland Schoop, a medical researcher for Bioforce, the British arm of A. Vogel, and one of the study’s authors,…
Oct 14 2012 | Posted in
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