- The Largest Drain Hole In The World
- 8 Men's Fashion Mistakes to Avoid
- A Quiz For People Who Know Everything
- Amazing Beer Can Art
- A Great Joke
February 28th, 2007
The Largest Drain Hole In The World
Where? Located in northern California, the Monticello Dam’s is the largest morning glory spillway all over the world. This funnel-shaped outlet, allows water to bypass the dam when it reaches capacity, as it swallows a rate of 48,400 cubic feet per second (1370 m³/s).
The distance from the funnel to the exit point – which is situated in the south side of the canyon – is about 700 feet.
This type of spillway is basically a giant cement funnel. The hole’s largest diameter is 72 feet and narrows to about 28 feet.
According to Davis Wiki,
for obvious reasons, swimming near the glory hole is both prohibited and stupid. There are buoys strung across the lake to discourage boaters and swimmers from approaching the glory hole and the dam. Furthermore, the glory hole is well fenced off from the land.
Finally, you can take a look at the hole on Google Maps.
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January 27th, 2007
The Longest Train in The World
The train from Nouadhibou to Zouerat in Mauritania is the longest train in the world. The iron ore train carry thousands of tons of crusehed rock in a chain of wagons up to three kilometres long. Their schecules and frequencies depend partly on the speed of the extraction at the mines, and even in the past, attacks by Polisario guerillas from over the border in Western Sahara.
There are 3 or 4 diesel-electric General Motors 3300V locomotives at the head of the train and about 200 cars each carrying up to 84 tons of iron ore, and a variable number of service cars. The total traffic averages 16.6 billion tons per year.
Travelers’ cars are also occasionally transported by train; these services are managed by an SNIM subsidiary, the ATTM Society (Société d’assainissement, de travaux, de transport et de maintenance). Passenger cars are sometimes attached, but more often passengers simply ride atop the ore cars.
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January 8th, 2007
The World’s Largest Indoor Hotel Aquarium
The AquaDom in Berlin, Germany, is a 14 meter tall cylindrical acrylic glass fish tank with built-in transparent elevator. It is located in Berlin-Mitte, in the DomAquarée complex, which also contains a hotel, offices, a restaurant, and the aquarium Sea Life Center.
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December 9th, 2006
World’s Highest Website
Sounds weird isn’t it? But you can drop by this website, the World’s Highest Website to check out!
It’s 18.939 kilometers high (that’s about 11.769 miles)!
How long will it takes to scroll down to the bottom? – I’ve no answer!
Anyway, Firefox users can reach the bottom by taking the elevator (light speed hypertext transportation) provided. For iE users, sorry no elevator for you guys but you can take the stairs though – by pressing CTRL + END.
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October 27th, 2006
Thumbelina – Smallest Horse in the World
These are the pictures of the world’s smallest horse, Thumbelina.
She stands at 17 1/2 inches tall, roughly the size of a medium-size dog, and weighs about 60 pounds.
More info from STLtoday.com.
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July 27th, 2006
World’s Smallest Football Game
Ok, even the World Cup is over, it didn’t means that football is over. How about a online flash football game for you? I mean the smallest football game in the world.
You play all the roles – you are the keeper, defender, midfielder and striker.
Want to play?
Go here: http://www.guimp.com/footy_flash.html
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July 2nd, 2006
World’s Smallest Projector
Sony unveils world’s smallest projector.
At 410cc it fits easily in the palm of your hand and would tuck away into most brief cases or handbags. The projector uses 14 LEDs as its light source, which means it will draw a fairly small amount of power compared to traditional projectors which generally use a high power bulb.
The LEDs provide a full spectrum of colour, producing red, green and blue light. Sony has stuck with three LCDs in favour of moving to DLP technology, even though DLP is a lot brighter. Sony has done some refinement to the setup of the components in this tiny projector, but it can still only manage 58cd/m2 on a normal projector screen.
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June 29th, 2006
Most Expensive Domain Name
Guess what, the most expensive domain name is Business.com. Business.com was sold by Texan entrepreneur Marc Ostrofsky on Dec 1 1999 for £4.6 million ($7.5 million).
Marc, a 38-year-old Houston media entrepreneur, bought the domain name from a London Internet service provider for $150,000 in 1996, the same year his children’s nanny won $21 million in the Texas lottery. Ostrofsky is not only a savvy businessman but also a very thoughtful husband. When he sold the domain name www.eflowers.com for $25,000 – and 50 cents on every transaction at that site – he made eFlowers promise to send his wife a dozen roses each month for the rest of her life!
This is how the Business.com website looks like:
This is a real business!
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May 29th, 2006
Sphynx: The World’s Most Ugliest and Weirdest Cat
The Sphynx is a result of a spontaneous mutation originating in Hawaii and is the only true hairless breed of cat in the world, proving once again, that Mother Nature has the best sense of humor! They have an extremely good appetite, they are extremely loving, extremely playful, extremely demanding, and extremely soft.
Source: http://belfrysphynx.org/main.html
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May 26th, 2006
World’s Most Expensive Mobile Number
The world’s most expensive phone number is 666 6666.
The number was auctioned for charity in Qatar and sold for 10m Qatari riyals or £1.5m.
The previous record holder was Chinese number 8888 8888, which sold for £270,000. The Cantonese word for eight sounds very similar to the word for rich. It was bought by Sichuan Airlines.
The auction started at a million riyals and interest quickly narrowed from eight bidders to just two, according to Kuwaiti News Agency (KUNA).
Having seven sixes as your mobile number might seem devilish to some, but interpretations vary. A brief dip into the weird world of numerology shows 666 is seen as holy in Judaism because it represents six directions – up, down, north, south, east and west. Others equate it with the Arabic word “ellah” meaning God.
On a techy note, the first Apple Computer sold for $666.66, the sixth letter of the Hebrew alphabet is w – so www. shows how evil the internet is. And finally, Viagra has a molecular weight of 666.7g/mol.
Source: The Register
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