Ted Williams is a homeless man with a truly God-given golden voice. The video of him done by the Columbus Dispatch, who discovered him along Ohio's I-71, gone viral and has now more than 5 million in views and counting. His story has been in headlines in almost all major news stations.
According to the note he scrawled on a piece of cardboard that he used to solicit change from drivers, Mr. Williams is an ex-radio announcer. When interviewed by the Dispatch, he talked about his struggles. Thankfully, his date with "alcohol and drugs and a few other things" haven't diminished his velvety vocal cords.
This video literally speaks for itself. It has exploded into a life-changing experience for him. Yesterday morning he was a panhandler; today he's the most in-demand voice personality in the world, thanks to offers from countless radio stations, voiceover gigs and even the Cleveland Cavaliers.
A mere 24 hours after the video went viral, Williams says he's already been offered a bunch of employment opportunities, including one that's a Ohio citizen's dream job. "The Cleveland Cavaliers just offered me a full-time job and a house," Williams revealed.
Ella Rose Riehle is extremely lucky. That's because she won't forget here birthday. All she needs to do is count - 8,9,10 and 11,12. Ella Rose was born on 8/9/10 at 11:12 PM. Her mother Terri Riehle from Cincinatti, USA was happy that she will not get her kid's birthday mixed up.
That day, she was hoping for the 11:12 a.m time slot, but when that time came & went, everyone started guessing when the baby would arrive. By 11 p.m., she started experiencing intense labor pains, and at the one-in-a-million time, baby Ella Rose came into this world. Terri recalls looking at the clock and seeing: 11:12.
Steven Slater, called it quits and said, 'That's it. I'm Done'. He was referring to his job as a JetBlue flight attendant. It happened yesterday morning in JFK international airport, inside the running Jetblue flight #1052, after he was hit on the forehead by a baggage of a female who was removing the baggage in the overhead compartment and ignoring his instruction to remain seated. After exchanging a heated argument with the female, he cursed her in the public address system, grab a beer and deployed the emergency chute the leave the plane.
He was then arrested in his home in Queens, New York, shortly after the incident and was charged with reckless endangerment and criminal mischief with a bail set at $2,500.
20-year-old actor Nick Afanasiev, aka the Tongue Boy, became a YouTube sensation when he posted videos of his unusually long tongue. It turned out, he has the longest tongue in United States. At 3.5 inches in length from the middle of his closed top lip to the tip of his tongue, Nick's tongue is 0.36 shorter than that of the world record holder for the world's longest tongue, Stephen Taylor.
"I knew it was long; I just didn't know it was one of the longest." Afanasiev told the news station.
Talking about overcoming disability, Dustin Carter has been there and done it. When he was five-years old, he contracted a rare blood disease that claimed all four of his limbs. Losing both his legs, and half of each arm was no less challenging for Dustin, who grew up depressed and a straight "F" student.
However it all changed when he discover wrestling. With the help of a coach, Dustin overcame his disability and eventually made it all the way to the Division II state final. While in high school, Dustin won over forty matches in his senior year of high and a match at the Ohio State Tournament.
"I don't look at myself as different," Dustin said. "I wrestle like anybody else. I go to school like anybody else. I can live on my own like anybody else. I can do anything anybody else can do.
Steven Ortiz is just your average 17-year-old. But when it comes to bartering online, this Glendora, CA teen rocks. He manages to trade an old cellphone into a 2000 Porsche convertible in Craigslist in two years using his bartering skills, patience and common sense.
Along the way, he traded the old cellphone with an iPod, then a MacBook Pro laptop, then electronics to dirt bikes, then cars and trucks, and an SUV. The latest is a Porsche. Who knows he might trade it again for something.
Ortiz’s skill at identifying a good deal started years ago when he would buy cell phones off of his friends. At $30 each, he would turn around and sell the used cell phones online for three times the amount he paid. He also picked up a knack for repairing electronics, which enabled him to take something that was almost worthless and get it functioning again.
Here's a video of him and his Porsche featured in a local TV news.
At just 6-years-old, Giuliano Stroe, a Romanian descent, is dubbed as the world's strongest boy. He became a Guinness World holder in 2009 after setting the record for the fastest ever ten meters hand-walk with a weight ball between his legs.
Born July 18, 2004, Giuliano is a six-year-old bodybuilder and gymnast. He has been lifting weights since he was two-years-old in Florence, Italy where his family lives. On February 24, 2010 he broke the world record for number of 'air push-ups' - an exercise where push-ups are performed without letting your feet touch the ground. Stroe managed 20 'air push ups' beating his previous record of 12, live on Romanian TV.
Stroe performance made him an Internet sensation as hundreds of thousands of people have watched the clip of him performing the stunt on YouTube. Here's a video of him while training.
If you see her, Sheyla Hershey will really stand out from the crowd. That's because Mrs. Hershey is the woman with world's largest breast.
Born on December 19, 1979 in Brazil, Hershey is now a housewife now living in Houston, Texas in the USA. In May 2008, after 8 operations, she had a recorded breast size of 34FFF. And she seemed not contented with it that she had another operation in her native Brazil in January 2009. This time she was reported to have a size 38KKK breast.
Well, we hope she will stops this "big" dream of hers because last July 14 2010, Hershey was reported to be suffering from a staph infection in both breasts following her most recent surgery. Although her implants have been removed, the infection may also necessitate breast removal.
If you're in a Karaoke bar and somebody started singing and he/she sounds like the real singer of the song, then he/she maybe is the real one. Watch this one as Jewel goes undercover and sings in a Karaoke bar.
Lee Jin-gyu, a 28-year-old Korean, couldn't gave up his 'dakimakura' - a kind of large, huggable pillow from Japan, often with a picture of a popular anime character printed on it. He was obsessed with it that he decided to marry it.
His love of his life (in this case a piloow) has an image of Fate Testarossa, from the 'magical girl' anime series Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha.
True love can take many forms. In this case, it has taken the form of a Korean man falling in love with, and eventually marrying, a large pillow with a picture of a woman on it.
Isobel Varley is not your average senior woman - she is the world's most tattooed senior woman listed in the Guinness Book of World Records since 2000. In fact, her tattoo cover more than 90% of her body.
Isobel's first love with tattoos started in 1986 when she attended a tattoo convention. The following week she had her first tattoo and didn't stop since.
At the present the only areas not completely tattooed is her face, the soles of her feet, her ears and some areas on her hands.
Below is a video of here in British TV show.
To know more about her, you can visit her website here.
Lin Tianzhuan of Shuimen, China, is dubbed the human coral reef. This is because of shell-like growths in his entire body - mostly in his hands and feet. These growths is similar to Dede's, "the Tree Man".
Luckily, doctors in Fuzhou Dermatosis Prevention Hospital were able to cure Lin's condition and he is now going into full recovery.
Before being treated, Lin became a hermit, hiding at the family home. His friends and neighbors are all scared of him and would avoid and stay away from him because of his condition.
"It started with a few hard bumps so I tried to apply antibiotics and creams but it didn't get better," he explained.
"Instead it just got worse. They grew and grew and soon they were all over my arms and legs, my back and even my head. Ii was as if I was turning to stone and it was terrifying," he added.
At 8 feet and 1 inch, Sultan Kösen currently is the world's tallest living man. His feat was recently recognized by the Guinness World Records and he is included in the book's 2010 edition. He beat Bao Xishun for the world record. Aside from the height, Kösen is also the current Guinness World Record holder largest hands, and largest feet, measuring 27.5 cm and 36.5 cm respectively.
A Turkish national, 26 years old Kösen began growing fast when he was 10 years old due pituitary gigantism after doctors discovered a tumor behind his eyes. His abnormal growth continued the tumor was removed in 2008.
His condition has caused other medical problems and gigantic height causes stress on his knees that he needs to use walking canes for most activities.
He said, "I am great at hanging curtains and changing light bulbs".
This is a very sad movie clip taken from The Fragrant Spirit of Life film. This particular scene depicts the very bad effect of poverty to the siblings of three in a small village of Uganda, Africa and how the eldest sister take care of her malnourished and polio-stricken brothers.
If you think you got nothing to be thankful of, watch this video.
Born in New Zealand, Lucky Diamond Rich is currently the world's most tattooed person. His tattoos covers 100% of his body, including the inside of his foreskin, mouth and ears. He holds this Guinness world record, which was previously held by Tom Leppard, since 2006.
Lucky spent over 1,000 hours having his body modified by hundreds of tattoo artists. He started by having a full collection of colorful designs from around the world tattooed over his entire body. Still not contented, he soon opted for a 100% covering of black ink, including eyelids, the delicate skin between the toes, down into the ears, and his gums. He is currently being tattooed with white designs on top of the black, and colored designs on top of the white.
At more that 70 years old, Cathie Jung still got what it takes to be the Guinness World Records' living woman with the world's smallest waistline. Her waist measures a astonishing 15 inches. In fact she got a perfect (or imperfect) figure of 39-15-39.
A resident of Connecticut, USA, and dubbed the "Corset Queen", Cathie got her small waistline by wearing tight fitting corset which she wore 24/7 since 1983 - that's 26 years up to now. She first wore one in 1959, for her wedding day. And now she got around 100 of them.
At the age of 16, David Wei Liang Howell became UK's youngest chess grandmaster. Born on November 14, 1990, and now 18 years old, Howell earned the title when he came second during the 35th Rilton Cup in Stockholm on January 2007. The record was previously held by Luke McShane who was six months older when he became a grandmaster.
Howell has been playing chess since the age of five years and eight months, after his father bought a second-hand chess set. He quickly learned and defeated his father and soon came to the attention of the Sussex Junior Chess Association, where he received tuition from a number of established county players. He progressed rapidly and became the British Under-8, Under-9 and Under-10 chess champion.
In August 1999, Howell became famous internationally when he broke the world record for the youngest player to have defeated a Grandmaster in an official game. He defeated GM John Nunn in a blitz game at the Mind Sports Olympiad. David still holds this record. He is also the youngest player in the world to have qualified to compete in a national chess championship, taking part in the British Chess Championship in August 2000. He came fourth in the Player of the Year ballot held by the British Chess Federation during 2000.
On July 16, 2009, at age 17, Zac Sunderland became the youngest person to sail solo around the world, a record previously held by Australian David Dicks. Zac began his trip on June 14, 2008 at the Marina del Rey, California on board his sailboat he name Intrepid. After 13 months and 2 days at sea, he arrived at Marina del Rey, California greeted by his family and friends and a crowd of reporters, a world record holder.
When Sunderland decided to attempt the circumnavigation, he purchased a 36 feet (11 m) Islander for $6,000, using all of his savings. With the assistance of his father, he retrofitted the yacht for the trip. Sunderland planned to complete his voyage in April 2008 with a maximum time of 18 months. He continued his schooling while on his trip, saying, "I have all my books with me. I have one more year to finish at high school and I have to send back my tests (via e-mail) to my mom. She's going to grade them and make sure I am doing well.
With just two knives - a Swiss army knife and a machete, Xavier Rosset, survived 300 days in the tropical forest of Tonga, in the uninhabited, 64-square-kilometre volcanic Pacific island called Tofua. His companion - a wild pig he captured in the island. But unlike Tom Hanks in the movie Cast Away, he said he didn't talked to the pig.
This young Swiss adventurer and former professional snowboarder, totally isolate himself and survive only on food and shelter got by his own hands. He said he did this to challenge the modern way of life that many of us got used to.
Rosset document his adventure with a video camera and will be aired later this year.
"It was hard, yes, very hard," Mr Rosset said, freshly arrived back in Europe after ending his 10-month stint in Tonga.
His island of choice was Tofua, a 64-square-kilometre volcanic isle home to nothing except "some pigs, lots of coconuts, a lake and tropical forest".
"At the beginning I had to try hard to survive," the former professional snowboarder said.
The man with the world's longest hair is Tran Van Hay. This 73 year-old Vietnamese has hair that measures at approximately 6.2 meters long. Due to it's massive size, he balanced it on his head under a scarf which makes it looks like a giant turban.
Tran Van Hay is proud of his "achievement" and with the help of his wife would gladly unravel his hair on the table to show off.
Here's a pictures of Tran with his long hair that hasn't been washed for more than six years.
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