…probably not available in the Guinness Book of World Records or Ripley’s Believe It or Not
Dubbing it "the eternal embrace," Reuters reported on 6th Feb 2007 that archaeologists in the northern city of Mantova, Italy have discovered a couple buried up to 6,000 years ago, hugging each other. Apparently, there has never been a double burial found in the Neolithic period, and to find such a burial, with them hugging, is unprecedented.
Tags: archeology, archaeology
I think it’s a tie between Louis J Horvitz, 60 (pic above) and Walter C Miller (pic below). These two guys are responsible for directing the world’s most prestigious live TV shows, year in and year out. Horvitz has directed the last 11 Annual Academy Awards (also known as the Oscars) show and Miller has directed the last 8 Annual Grammy Awards show. (more…)
techchee.com reports today that UK-based zopa.com is the first web 2.0 loan shark website in the world. Why so? Because it provides a platform for lenders to lend and borrowers to borrow from the lenders. No financial institutions in the middle. That sounds very loan shark-friendly to me. Zopa (Zone of Possible Agreement) calls itself “the world’s first online lending and borrowing exchange.” Simply put, it works as follows: (more…)
Of all the best friend turnabout stories I’ve heard and read, this has got to be the worst best friend ever.
The Star reported on 25th February that in Johor Bahru, a 17-year-old school dropout tricked her best friend to be raped by four men in a desperate bid to settle her debts to them.
Granted, she was in severe stress, but surely there are other ways to settle the problem than turn in your best friend?!
She lied to her now definitely "ex best friend" 17-yr old, telling her that she needs help, please follow her, her brother was being assaulted at a car park.
Of course the other girl wanted to help. But imagine her horror when she reached the car park, the victim instead saw four lecherous men waiting in a car. There started her worst nightmare.
They then immediately grabbed her and tied her hands, then drove to a house, where she was then taken to a room where the men took turns to rape her. She was dropped off at her home several hours later.
The usual procedures were taken and within hours 5 suspects were rounded up.
Danish artist Peter Callesen and British artist Richard Sweeney make the world’s best, and definitely most difficult, paper sculptures.
Example of Callesen’s artwork:
According to thrillingwonder, the strangest plant on earth is Welwitschia Mirabilis, which looks like this:
The Star Tribune reported on 16th Feb 2007 that airline pilot Raymond Snouffer Jr won a 5/31 USD25,000 lottery jackpot two days in a row. 5/31 means you have to select 5 numbers, each between, and including 1 and 31. Numbers, once selected cannot be repeated in the same combination.
His combinations were 11-14-23-26-31 for the first draw and 3-7-11-19-28 with the second. Each have odds of about 170,000 to 1. According to the Minniesota Lottery website, this is inprecedented and the odds against it were “virtually incalculable.”
How incalculable? According to discussion at digg.com, someone mentioned that the odds for that to happen would be 170,000 x 170,000, which is 28.9 billion to 1.
Well, here in Malaysia, the most difficult lottery to win would be Sports Toto’s 6/49, which has an odds of 13 million to 1. Meaning, you’re more likely to be struck by lightning than winning it.
But, if the odds are 28.9 billion to 1, you’d have to be struck by lightning several times over!
What is not clear is how heavy a gambler Mr Snouffer Jr is. He could’ve bought more than USD50,000 worth of lottery tickets in his lifetime, so in essence he could’ve still lost money.
On 15th Feb 2007, Kuppan Muniandy, 50 became the first Malaysian to expose himself in the middle of court proceedings when he suddenly dropped his trousers in full view of everyone present at a magistrate’s court in Kuala Lumpur.
Hailing from Ipoh, he was brought to court to be charged with robbing salesman Johan Razali Hang Jebat, 18 of a mobile phone worth RM200 in January. While the charge was being read, the unrepresented Kuppan suddenly dropped his trousers.
This so shocked magistrate Tasnim Abu Bakar that she adjourned the case. Upon resumption of the proceedings, she ordered Kuppan to undergo psychiatric evaluation.
The most poisonous animal is neither of the above. Actually, it’s a little frog, measuring max 2 inches in length.
Now, most frogs produce skin toxins, but the dart poison frogs from Central and South America are the most potent of all. But the king among all them all is the golden poison frog, scientifically called “phyllobates terribilis.” A single terribilis contains enough poison to kill up to 100 people. In case you think this is a typo, I really meant one hundred!
Would you want to argue that it is definitely the most poisonous animal on Earth?
Pics after the jump.
Meet the real Mr Boring: Dean Boring, president of Boring Business Systems, a 50-employee company based in Florida.
Its products and services include imaging systems, imaging services, network services, office furniture and office supplies.
However, they seem to offer their services exclusively to Central Florida.
