Mr. Perry can eat all he can, whatever he likes and never get fat. In fact, he regularly eats Chinese takeaways, chips, chocolate and clotted cream, but his weight has remained stable at 11st 12lb. It's because he has a condition called lipodystrophy - an ailment that makes his body produces six times the normal level of insulin and in turn burns fat rapidly.
Doctors thought he was refusing to eat or had a stomach ulcer, he said.
He initially tried to eat more to gain weight, but it had no effect.
“I didn’t like being slim at first. As a teenager playing football I was so thin I got embarrassed taking my shirt off," he said.
“I used to eat loads of chocolate to try and put on weight but I couldn’t.”
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If you think animated movies are inexpensive, you are wrong. In fact, animated movies are one of the of the most demanding movie to make, both physically and financially. It because artist have to draw every sequence of the scene and actions. Convinced? Here's a list of the top ten most expensive 3D animated movies of all time. (Note: all figures are in US dollar)
1) The Polar Express Production Costs: $170 Million U.S. Box Office: $173 Million Worldwide Box Office: $297 Million
2) Final Fantasy: Spirits Within Production Costs: $137 Million U.S. Box Office: $32 Million Worldwide Box Office: $85 Million
3) Dinosaur Production Costs: $128 Million U.S. Box Office: $138 Million Worldwide Box Office: $356 Million
4) Monsters Inc. Production Costs: $115 Million U.S. Box Office: $256 Million Worldwide Box Office: $525 Million
5) Treasure Planet Production Costs: $100 Million U.S. Box Office: $38 Million Worldwide Box Office: $91 Million
6) Finding Nemo Production Costs: $94 Million U.S. Box Office: $339 Million Worldwide Box Office: $866 Million
7) The Incredibles () Production Costs: $92 Million U.S. Box Office: $261 Million Worldwide Box Office: $631 Million
8) Toy Story 2 Production Costs: $90 Million U.S. Box Office: $246 Million Worldwide Box Office: $486 Million
9) The Wild roduction Costs: $80 Million U.S. Box Office: $37 Million Worldwide Box Office: $87 Million
10) Shark Tale Production Costs: $75 Million U.S. Box Office: $161 Million Worldwide Box Office: $363 Million
Bao Xishun of China is the world's tallest man for the second time.
The Guinness World Records has returned the title to him after Leonid Stadnyk of Ukraine refused to be measured under the records book's new guideline. Bao, who stands at 7 feet, 8.95 inches, held the title for a year before losing it in 2006 to Stadnyk, who is 8 feet 5.5 inches tall.
Under the new guideline, candidates need to be measured six times in one day in both standing and lying position. Bao agreed but Stadnyk refused, and so Guinness was forced to give the record back to Bao based on a statement from his doctor.
"We realized there was such interest and excitement in these categories to do with height that it was too important a category for us to leave it to a doctor alone," Glenday said. "So we decided to tighten things up completely to make sure there was no doubt."
When it comes to sex, Sarah Carmen has lot of stories to tell. It's because she is the only woman who has 200 orgasms a day - a woman who don't need a G-Shot.
Sarah is suffering from Permanent Sexual Arousal Syndrome or PSAS. This disorder increase blood flow to her sex organs which results to her orgasms anytime of the day, anywhere. She believes her condition started when she was 19 after being prescribed with anti-depressants pills.
"In six months I was having 150 orgasms a day—and it has been as many as 200."
She and her boyfriend split— and new partners struggle to keep up with her sex demands. "Often, I'll want to wear myself out by having as many orgasms as I can so they stop and I can get some peace," she said.
Sarah is a beautician and working in salons filled with whirring hairdryers and skincare gadgets can cause problems.
Still under construction yet the Burj Dubai is now the world's tallest building. As of September 2008, it's total height reached 688 meters or 2,257 feet and when completed, Burj Dubai will be more than 800 meters in height with 160 livable floors.
The building began construction in September 2004 and is expected to be finished on September 2009. The total budget of construction is $4.1 billion and the price of office space is $4,000 per sq foot.
At just 2 feet and 5 inches, He Pingping is the world's smallest enable man. He was recognized by the Guinness World record and is included in the record book's 2009 edition. He defeated Lin Yü-chih who holds the title previously.
This Chinese little man who is native of China's Inner Mongolia is now a big celebrity and has become an internet icon because of his size.
A video of He Pingping during his official measurement conducted by the Guinness World record representatives.
Small as it maybe, Water Bear or Tardigrade is the world's toughest animal. It can survive extreme conditions known to man.
Water Bears can be found all over the world from the high Himalayas, to the deep sea and from the polar regions to the equator. It can grow to about 1.5 millimeters and can survive in the following extreme conditions:
- Can survive being heated for a few minutes to 151 °C or being chilled for days at –200 °C, or for a few minutes at –272 °C. (1 °C warmer than absolute zero)
- Can withstand the extremely low pressure of a vacuum and also very high pressures, many times greater than atmospheric pressure for at least 10 days. They can also withstand 6,000 atmospheres pressure, which is nearly six times the pressure of water in the deepest ocean trench.
- Can survive nearly one decade in a dry state. One report said that it survived over a period of 120 years in a dehydrated state.
- Can withstand 5,700 grays or 570,000 rads of x-ray radiation while human may die at 10-20 grays.
- Can survive the extreme environment of outer space for 10 days.
With poison 1000 times lethal than cyanide, Fugu or the pufferfish is the world's most dangerous food. Though dangerous if not prepared properly, Fugu is included in more than 80 Japanese menus and one of Japan's most sought after dish. It is serve in the country's most expensive restaurants usually in traditional Japanese setting.
The Fugu's poison is called tetrodotoxin and is located in the internal organs, especially the liver and ovaries, and also the skin. If prepared incorrectly, a meal of Fugu will result in 100% death if not treated accordingly. For this reason, only licensed chef is allowed to prepare it in Japanese restaurants.
The poison acts by paralyzing nerves making the victim unable to move or breath. They are fully conscious until their lungs fail and eventually the victim will die. The only way to treat a victim is to use respirator until the toxin subsides.
At 6 feet and 5 inches tall Svetlana Pankratova is the woman with the world's longest legs. Her legs is staggering 4 feet and 4 inches, which means her body and head is only 2 feet and 1 inch combined.
Svetlana lives in Volgograd, Russia and is only 37 years old. She was recognized by the Guinness World records and is included in the 2008 edition of the record book.
Are you dreaming of swimming like a fish? Well, the artificial gills is maybe the answer.
A brainchild of Alon Bodner, this battery-powered device named "LikeAFish" will extract oxygen from the seawater allowing for a tankless underwater diving. Although this new invention is in the prototype stage, Bodner says they are working hard to develop a prototype small enough for a diver to carry it on his diving vest. They are estimating that in two years a fully functional prototype will be available.
The system can work as a replacement of common 'open diving systems'. However, because of large air and water requirements, the system is best suited for 'closed systems', also known as 'rebreathers'.
Submarines and underwater habitats are private cases of rebreather uses, and where use of the new system would have enormous benefits. Many operations that are now considered to be 'impossible' become within reach when the underwater time of sub sea vehicles becomes virtually unlimited.
At 2.3 hectares in total area, St. Peter's Basilica is the world's largest Christian church. It is located in the Vatican City of Rome in Italy.
The basilica is believed to be the burial site of St. Peter, one of the 12 apostles of Christ. For this reason, all the Popes have been buried there. It is also famous as a place of pilgrimage, for its liturgical functions and for its historical associations.
St. Peter's is famous as a place of pilgrimage, for its liturgical functions and for its historical associations. It is associated with the papacy, with the Counter-reformation and with numerous artists, most significantly Michelangelo. As a work of architecture, it is regarded as the greatest building of its age. Contrary to popular misconception, Saint Peter's is not a cathedral, as it is not the seat of a bishop. It is properly termed a basilica. Like all the earliest churches in Rome, it has the entrance to the east and the apse at the west end of the building.
Jim Litz should consider himself very lucky to just suffer bruises, or else he might be one of the recipient of a successful face transplant.
While traveling 25 mph on his bike going to work, Jim, a middle school teacher, had a collision course with a black bear. He and the bear went cartwheeling down the road.
Lucky for him that the bear was not in the revengeful mood and just walk out of the scene. He was brought to a hospital by his wife who drove by shortly after the crash.
A trained German Shepherd reportedly dialed 911 to save it's master life - another proof that dog is a man's bestfriend.
This is the third time that Buddy, the dog's name, called the 911 to save it's owner's life, Joe Stalnaker, who occasionally suffer seizure due to a head injury during military training.
Buddy was trained by Joe to press programmed buttons to called 911 whenever it sense it's he is having a seizure symptoms.
If you are tired of 3d tattoo, maybe you wanna try the skinless tattoo. Another tattoo procedure wherein, using a scalpel, your skin is peeled to create the tattoo instead of injecting ink to it. If you have a phobia with needle, this one's for you. :)
Archeologist believe they have found the oldest skeleton in the Americas - in an underwater cave in Mexico. The female skeleton named as Eva de Naharon, or Eve of Naharon, is believed to be 13,600 years old.
"We don't now how [the people whose remains were found in the caves] arrived and whether they came from the Atlantic, the jungle, or inside the continent," González said.
"But we believe these finds are the oldest yet to be found in the Americas and may influence our theories of how the first people arrived."
In addition to possibly altering the time line of human settlement in the Americas, the remains may cause experts to rethink where the first Americans came from, González added.
Don Gorske of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin is a Big Mac enthusiast. He claimed to have eaten 23,000 Big Macs his 36 years - a world record. His love for the McDonald's meal was fueled by his obsessive-compulsive disorder and started eating the burgers on May 17, 1972, and has kept every receipt to prove his achievement. He even wrote a book about it.
Each day he eats two Big Macs, which are made up of two beef patties, cheese and a special Mac sauce. At 6ft 2in tall and weighs 84 kg, he hasn't gained weight since he said hi burns off the burgers by strolling up to 10 miles a day.
He further claims to have eaten 265 Big Macs in the following month, an average of 8.5 Big Macs per day. If true, this would be equivalent to over 4,600 calories and 247 grams of fat daily, for a total of 143,100 calories and 16.9 pounds of fat in one month. He also claims to drink almost nothing but Coca Cola and, according to Super Size Me, he rarely eats the fries. At first, Don kept all the boxes of Big Macs he ate in the back of his car.
Located in Bangladesh, Cox's Bazar beach is the world's longest unbroken natural beach. It's total length is 125 kilometers and is one of the most visited tourist destination in the country.
The Cox's Bazar Beach is considered the longest natural beach in the world. Situated in the town of Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh, this unbroken 125 km sandy beach is one Bangladesh's major tourist attraction. It is also known as "Panowa", meaning "yellow flower" It was first named as "Palongkee" before it was changed to Cox's Bazar, in honor of an army officer, Captain Cox, who serve in British India and died on 1798.
This maybe a Guinness World record. A Lebanese couple, Raymond Salha and his wife, found 26 pearls in their oyster lunch.
Believing it was valuable, they called their city's maritime museum and took the oysters with the pearls inside it. They later told the couple that they counted only 25 pearls.
The oyster was preserved and the couple display it in their restaurant.
At the museum, Salha said officials later told him they counted "only" 25 pearls. He insisted however, that he and his wife Amal counted a total of 26 pearls of varying sizes inside the oyster, some very small.
A few days later, the oyster was preserved and returned by the museum, along with the pearls. Salha, who insists the oyster still contains 26 pearls, plans to keep it on display at his restaurant.
Still alive and kicking at 102 years old, Pierre Jean "Buster" Martin is considered the United Kingdom's oldest employee. He retired at the age of 96 and returned to work at the age of 99 because of boredom of retirement. He is still very active and works in a plumbing company as a van cleaner. He even runs in marathon for the charity. Making him also the world's oldest marathon runner.
Buster, a father of 17, was born on September 1, 1906 and has been working for over 90 years. At a young age, he joined the British Army as a Physical training instructor. He is a veteran of the World War II having served in the British Armed Forces and retired in 1955.
He says, he still smokes and drink to this day having been started the vice at age of 7. (I thought it's bad for the health)
Buster Martin was born in France but, as a result of his teenage mother's illegitimate pregnancy or death, was sent to a Cornish orphanage, when he was three months old. Martin says that he picked up his nickname "Buster" at age three for "whacking a priest on the nose". Martin was thrown out of the orphanage at the age of ten "for eating too much and growing too fast". He travelled to London, and found work running errands for stallholders in the Brixton market, the beginning of nearly 90 years of work.
Big Wendy, the "Arnold Schwarzenegger" of dogs, is a 27-kilogram muscular dog of Whippet breed - a breed of small slender dog similar to a greyhound. Wendy the Whippet, as she sometimes called, has a rare genetic disorder that has resulted in an exceptionally muscular growth and appearance. Sometimes people mistake her for a pitbull with a pinhead. But don't let her appearance fool you as she is friendly says her owner Ingrid Hansen.
"People have referred to her as Arnold Schwarzenegger," says doting owner Ingrid Hansen, stroking Wendy's sleek black coat and white chest.
Wendy was recently part of a genetics study done in the U.S. on mutation in the myostatin gene in whippets, which resemble greyhounds in appearance. The National Institute of Health study reported that whippets with one single defective copy of the gene have increased muscle mass that can enhance racing performance in the breed, known for speeds up to 60 kilometres an hour.
A freak hailstorm turns parts of Central Kenya white with snow covering the land an area of 30 acres. Villagers who were first time to see a snow rush to the scene of hailstorm. They originally thought there was a big white sheet covering the land. Villagers tasted the snow and play with the thing they only see on tv.
"We thought a big white sheet had been spread, so we decided to come and see for ourselves. We thought that it was Jesus who had come back," one villager told reporters.
At 2.72 Meter or 8 feet 11.1 inches, Robert Wadlow is the world's tallest man in medical history. He was born on February 22, 1918 and died on July 15, 1940 at a young age of 22. He weighed 490 pounds at the time of his death.
The Alton Giant's size, as he was also called, was due to hypertrophy of his pituitary gland which results in an abnormally high level of human growth hormone. He showed no indication of an end to his growth even at the time of his death.
Wadlow's size began to take its toll: he required leg braces to walk, and had little feeling in his legs and feet. On June 27, 1940 (eighteen days before his death), he was measured at 8 feet 11.1 inches (2.72 m) by doctors C. M. Charles and Cyril MacBryde of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
In his time, Wadlow was among the most popular of American celebrities; he was well-known due to his 1936 U.S. tour with the Ringling Brothers Circus and his 1938 promotional tour with the INTERCO. He continued participating in various tours and public appearances.
These are Moroccan Goats atop Argan Trees, a species of tree endemic to the calcareous semi-desert Sous valley of southwestern Morocco and to the Algerian region of Tindouf. In this drought-ridden places where there is little to eat, goats will climb up these trees to graze. These goats are well adapted to climbing trees that they can climb and balance even up to the top of branches with ease.
A pitbull attacks a police officer who were trying to impound the dog after attacking a man and a child earlier. It's owner allegedly commanded the dog to attack the three.
In Cambodia and it's neighboring country Vietnam, rat meat is in high demand. Officials blame the economy as the reason why Cambodians are preferring it over livestock and poultry meat. Rat meat is also in demand in Vietnam and is eaten in Thailand and India to combat high prizes of meat prize in the market.
Officials said rats were fleeing to higher ground from flooded areas of the lower Mekong Delta, making it easier for villagers to catch them.
"Many children are happy making some money from selling the animals to the markets, but they keep some for their family," Ly Marong, an agriculture official, said by telephone from the Koh Thom district on the border with Vietnam.
A green crucified frog sculpture is still in display in a Italian museum despite being criticized by different religious groups, even the Pope who denounced the sculpture.
The 3-foot-tall sculpture which is an ironic self-portrait and an expression of his angst is made by German artist Martin Kippenberge who died in 1997 at 43.
It "has offended the religious feelings of many people who consider the cross a symbol of God's love and of our redemption," Pahl quoted the pope as writing in the letter.
Pahl himself has long opposed the display of "Zuerst die Fuesse" ("First the Feet" in German), even staging a hunger strike this summer and saying he would not seek re-election unless it was removed.
The museum then moved the statue out of its foyer and into a less trafficked area on the third floor.
Tomatina Festival is the world's biggest tomato fight held every last Wednesday of August each year in the town of Buñol in the Valencia region of Spain. Each year, approximately 20,000–40,000 tourists come to the tomato fight, multiplying by several times Buñol's normal population of 9,000. The video below is this years (Aug. 27, 2008) celebration were thousands of people went to the Spanish town of Bunol on Wednesday to take part in said festival.
Daryl, a.k.a. the Human Railroad, has amazing railroad tattoos in his body. He has spent 200 hours getting his tattoo which very intricate yet detailed with tracks, switches and tunnels.
Picture has been removed following the photographer's request. Please click the link below to see the of the "The Human Railroad".
John Pearce maybe one of the world's dumbest burglar. He was caught dangling upside down when his shoelaces was caught by the window of his victim after smashing it. He was in that position of about an hour as a crowd of 30 neighbours and passers-by gathered to ridicule him before the house owner and police arrived.
Mr Ives, 44, an air conditioning engineer who recently moved into the house, said: 'The man must be the world's dumbest thief.
'He was hanging upside down. His body was inside the house and he was stuck in the window with his foot outside.
'The more he struggled, the more he got jammed. When I got home, he still had the hammer in his hand which he had used to smash the main window and get some leverage.
'He was screaming to get him down and we were all saying, "I don't think so".
'He kept saying, "I haven't done anything. I was stopping the burglars".'
Without the successful face transplant, this 30-year-old Chinese man would have been hideous all his life. He was attacked by a bear in October 2004.
The surgery included connection of arteries and veins, repair of the nose, lip, and sinuses, as well as other structures in the damaged part of the face.
The Tree of Ténéré was once considered the world's most isolated tree before it was knocked down by an allegedly drunk Libyan truck driver in 1973. It was the only acacia tree within 250 miles and it served as a landmark on caravan routes through the Ténéré region of the Sahara in northeast Niger.
It was the last surviving tree of a group of trees that grew when the desert was less parched than it is today. The tree had stood alone for decades. During the winter of 1938–1939 a well was dug near the tree and it was found that the roots of the tree reached the water table 33–36 meters below the surface.
Gardeners design a giant flower carpet in a central market called Grand Place in Brussels, Belgium. It requires about 700,000 flowers to create, according to event organizers. This is done once every two years.
The flower carpet of Grand Place has a different model every time and it’s made out of roughly 700,000 begonias. This is definitely one of the must see- attractions of Brussels.
A barbie fishing rod made a record catfish catch in backyard pond. The catfish, which weighed 21 pounds and 1 ounce, was caught by David Hayes when his granddaughter asked him to hold the rod and reel for her. The next thing he know, he have a state record catch.
Alyssa's father had bought the pink Barbie fishing rod for Christmas and she had caught a few bluegill before her grandfather hauled in the catfish.
The Winston-Salem Journal reported the catch Aug. 5 in eastern Wilkes County has been certified as a record by the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission.
Hayes and his granddaughter have been fishing in the pond behind his house since she was big enough to hold a pole.
The Burning Monk was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk named Thích Quảng Đức, who burned himself to death on at a busy Saigon road intersection on June 11, 1963 , as a protest of the persecution of Buddhists by South Vietnam's Ngô Đình Diệm administration. Photos of his self-immolation were circulated widely across the world and brought attention to the policies of the Diệm regime.
Thích Quảng Đức's act increased international pressure on Diệm and led him to announce reforms with the intention of mollifying the Buddhists. However, the promised reforms were implemented either slowly or not at all, leading to a deterioration in the dispute. With protests continuing, the Special Forces loyal to Diệm's brother, Ngô Ðình Nhu, launched nationwide raids on Buddhist pagodas, seizing the holy heart and causing deaths and widespread damage. Several Buddhist monks followed Thích Quảng Đức's example and burned themselves to death. Eventually, an Army coup toppled and killed Diệm in November. The self-immolation is widely seen as the turning point of the Vietnamese Buddhist crisis which led to the change in regime.
A 27- year-old Egyptian woman named Ghazala Khamis gives birth to Septuplets or seven babies via Ceasarean section. The babies, four boys and three girls are now in stable condition. Ghazala who has three daughters, took fertility drugs in order to have a son. Lucky for the parents because Egypt's health minister will shoulder the milk and diapers of the seven babies for two years.
"This is a very rare pregnancy — something I have never witnessed over my past 33 years in this profession," Darwish told The Associated Press by phone from the hospital.
Darwish decided to carry out the Caesarean section at the end of Khamis' eighth month of pregnancy due to the pressure on her kidneys. He said Khamis, who already has three daughters, took fertility drugs in an effort to have a son.
A Japanese grapes called "Ruby Roman" was sold for $900 a bunch. The said grapes has the same size of pingpong ball each.
On August 11, 2008, in Ishikawa Prefecture Japan, a bunch of “Ruby Roman” grapes were auctioned and purchased by a restaurant owner for a record high of 100,000 yen (around $910).
The bunch had about 35 grapes on it, costing around $26 per grape, and each one was as big as a ping pong ball.
The other bunches sold for average of 27,000 yen (around $245).
A premature 610-gram baby comes back to life after it was pronounced dead and was put into a freezer for five hours. Premature infants of this weight and age have only 10 percent survival.
The father, Ali Majdub, told Channel 2 that his wife realized the child was alive after asking to see her dead daughter one last time.
"When we unwrapped the baby to see her, she realized it was moving. I began screaming and ran with it toward the doctors," he said.
She was then rushed to the neonatal intensive care unit, where doctors are fighting for her life.
"I was in shock," the mother told Channel 2 last night. "I thought I wasn't hearing it right when they said she was still alive."
Dr. Moshe Daniel, the hospital's deputy director, said that in his 35 years as a physician, he had "never heard of such a case. It was like a medical miracle."
A Bigfoot that was found in North Georgia is gaining so much attention since yesterday when the two Bigfoot hunters who claims to have discovered the body made a press conference about their latest discovery. The two hunters presented photos and DNA samples of the Bigfoot but many wants to see the real body which is, according to the hunters, in a freezer somewhere. Many are speculating this is another big hoax but the two hunters are claiming otherwise.
"We were not looking for Bigfoot. ... We wouldn't know what we were doing if we did," said Whitton, a police officer on leave after being shot in the hand while making an arrest. "I didn't believe in Bigfoot at the time. ... But you've got to come to terms with it and realize you've got something special. And that's what it was."
The men say they were hiking in early June when they discovered the body of a 7-foot-7, 500-pound half-ape, half-human creature near a stream. They also claim to have spotted about three similar living creatures -- and showed reporters video stills of what they say is one of those creatures shadowing them through the woods.
The announcement, which the men first made on the Internet radio show "Squatch Detective" several weeks ago, has been greeted with healthy skepticism, even among some Bigfoot enthusiasts.
Proposal 2.0: Marry Me, Leslie is a geek idea of Michael Weiss-Malik to propose marriage to his longtime girlfriend, Leslie, on Google Streetview. It went live on Google Maps on August 5, 2008.
Scientist have recently found that the songbirds' throat muscles is the world's fastest muscle. It can move a hundred times faster than the blink of an eye.
"[Pigeons] have really boring, slow songs, and it made me wonder what the muscles in songbirds were like, so I decided to find out."
What Elemans and colleagues discovered is that zebra finches and European starlings can change their tunes at frequencies as high as 250 hertz via direct muscle control.
This means that they are moving their muscles a hundred times faster than a blink of the human eye.
Wanna eat all you can and stay fit? Be a world class Olympian like Michael Phelps. He eats a whooping 12,000 calories a day or 4,000 calories every meal. That's six times than the average man of his age and size suggested calorie intake of 2,000 calories. Apparently, his calorie intake is being washed away by his training of five hour a day, six time a week regimen.
Phelps lends a new spin to the phrase "Breakfast of Champions" by starting off his day by eating three fried-egg sandwiches loaded with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and mayonnaise.
He follows that up with two cups of coffee, a five-egg omelet, a bowl of grits, three slices of French toast topped with powdered sugar and three chocolate-chip pancakes.
At lunch, Phelps gobbles up a pound of enriched pasta and two large ham and cheese sandwiches slathered with mayo on white bread - capping off the meal by chugging about 1,000 calories worth of energy drinks.
For dinner, Phelps really loads up on the carbs - what he needs to give him plenty of energy for his five-hours-a-day, six-days-a-week regimen - with a pound of pasta and an entire pizza.
He washes all that down with another 1,000 calories worth of energy drinks.
Update: Michael Phelps won his 8th Olympic gold medal, breaking the record of Mark Spitz's who won seven gold medals at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. He now have a total of thirteen Olympic gold medals from three Olympics Games.
Michael Phelps is now the winningest Olympian ever with eleven Olympic gold medal. He has gone were all Olympians has never been before by capturing his 10th and 11th gold medal after winning the 200-meter butterfly and the 4x200 freestyle relay which both broke the previous records. He has now a total of five gold medal in this Summer Olympics in China. At 23 years old, you bet he is far from retiring from the Olympics.
“I’m almost kind of at a loss for words,” Phelps said. “Growing up, I always wanted to be an Olympian. Now to be the most decorated Olympian of all time, it just sounds weird saying it. I just have absolutely nothing to say. I’m speechless.
“It’s a pretty cool title, I guess you could say.”
Once considered the world's heaviest living man, Manuel Uribe finally got his first outing in five years. He was forklifted in his specially designed bed to a platform truck to a lake in Mexico. He now weighs 700 pounds after losing more than 500 pounds through dieting and bed exercise.
Once considered the world's fattest man when his weight hit over half a ton, more than two years of steady dieting had helped Uribe drop to about 700 pounds as of June - 550 pounds less than his former Guinness record weight of 1,235 pounds. He did not say what his current weight is.
While somewhat bothered by the summer heat, Uribe appeared to enjoy Sunday's outing. He is still unable to walk, and his last planned outing in March was aborted after the platform carrying his bed got stuck under an overpass.
Google's Streetview camera has really been into places, and it has captured a wide array of images. This time, it's a house on fire. We're wondering if the crew called the 911.
The Slightest Touch device promise one thing - Orgasms "at the touch of a button". According to the makers, this device can give women longer, better and more intense orgasms. And the more interesting is, it can give orgasm without touching a woman's genital just by stimulating the body's sexual nerve pathway.
Women start by drinking an electrolyte sports drink 20 minutes before using the device.
They then apply two white electrode pads inside their ankles.
These pads are connected to the Slightest Touch device, which is about the size of a personal stereo.
"The Slightest Touch does not provide an orgasm," said Cherisse Davidson, the company's director of customer support.
"It gently stimulates the sexual nerve pathways taking the woman to a pre-orgasmic plateau where she dangles on the edge of orgasm for as long as she wants.
"From there, gentle stimulation can then effect the orgasm."
BBC News Online has been unable to get independent scientific verification that the product works.
But Ms Davidson, who first tested the device three years ago, insists it is effective.
"It can be of great benefit to many women," she told BBC News Online.
"I've been using mine for three years and I just love it."
The Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge Tunnel is truly a marvelous piece of engineering. This underwater bridge between Sweden and Denmark connects connects Suffolk, VA and Newport News, VA. The submerged portion of the bridge serves as ships canal.
Invented by Swedish inventor Jan von Heland, Waboba ball, the ball that bounces on water, is now becoming popular around the world after videos of it were posted in YouTube.
This ball is made of a combination of plastics with lycra coating. It has the same density as water and floats when at rest. Wabobal ball which is said to have a consistency of breast implant, took the inventor several years to perfect and now being sold around the world after debuting in the beaches of Australia.
"I first got the idea when I was throwing a frisbee upside down on the water trying to get it to bounce,” he said.
"I thought it would be good to get something that used the water to bounce off and began to experiment.”
He added: "It has been very successful and we sell the balls all over the world - Australia is our biggest market.
"It seems a bit odd that a Swede should invent this because it is best for a hot climate where people are in the sea and in swimming pools all the time."
The giant Palm Salamander's tongue is the world's most explosive muscle. This Central American reptile's tongue muscles has explosive tongue thrust that releases over 18,000 watts of power per kilogram of muscle. Enough to catch even the most elusive insect.
Stephen Deban of the University of South Florida in Tampa said the secret to the tiny salamander's strength lies in its "ballistic" tongue-firing mechanism.
His team used high-speed video and implanted electrodes to study the prey-catching behavior of several related salamander species.
Much like an arrow shot from a bow, Deban said, the giant palm salamander's bony tongue is launched with an initial burst of energy and flies forward under its own momentum.
The "bow" is provided by elastic fibers in the salamander's mouth that stretch to store muscular energy and then release it all at once.
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Doctors thought he was refusing to eat or had a stomach ulcer, he said.
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