Imagine being able to dive 115 ft (aprox. 35m) deep, or to be able to swim 1000 yards (1013m) only to discover that you have made a single length. This things is HUGE! The massive pool covers eight hectares of ground and is situated in San Alfonso del Mar resort on the Southern coast of Chile.
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This rather big rat is “about five times the size of a typical city rat”, and as luck would have it, is completely unafraid of humans whatsoever. The rodent, which is currently being studied, is suspected to be a brand new species.
Our little friend was discovered on an expedition trip in the Foja mountains rainforest.
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$330 000 is a lot of money. That’s more pizza than I care to imagine. But the expensive and much loved delicacy was unfortunately not my favorite food, but a truffle. Your ordinary truffle won’t fetch anywhere near that much, despite already being expensive. What much this mushroom so expensive is its massive mass, [...]
What? Did you read the title correctly?
I’m afraid you did:
I absolutely love people like Richie Sowa, the creator of this personal island. He built his paradise in 1998, which was destroyed later by a hurricane. His island was a bamboo and pine structure that literally floated on 250,000 plastic bottles, which are attached as shown:
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That’s a big number!
The brains behind the idea is Robert McDonald, an American Stuntman, who co-ordinated the construction of the 50 foot (15 meters)( ship, with the help of his son and around 5,000 different children.
He plans to eventually use the vessel and traverse the Atlantic Ocean, once all glitches are patched and Robert [...]
In 1995, this man, who goes by the name Peng Shulin, was “cut in half” when a truck drove into him. Nobody expected him to survive the ordeal, yet he never gave up hope and is living and happy to this day.
What surprised most is that he didn’t just survive, but he is returning to [...]
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The Australian Outback. Dry and desolate. This was the place where US and Australian scientists decided to test their latest offering in an attempt to drastically improve air travel.
It was the first time in history a Scramjet was ignited inside the atmosphere of our earth. The engine is incredibly light, it doesn’t need [...]
