Reading Time: 2 minutes There are a great many people who are dwarfs. Dwarfism is caused by a genetic disorder and is not treatable. There are many different types of dwarfism, with some causing the body to stop growing at an extremely early age. Read about the shortest man here and woman here. A typical dwarf is someone who …
Reading Time: 2 minutes The world’s longest continuously running laboratory experiment is an experiment that is being run at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. It has been running continuously since it was started by Professor Thomas Parnell in 1927. The world’s longest continuously running laboratory experiment is known as the pitch drop experiment, which measure the flow of pitch over …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes As far as living animals are concerned the largest living land animal is the African elephant, while the largest of all animals is the blue whale. But what about all living things? To examine this more closely we must consider all living organisms, and the largest one will take many by surprise. The biggest living …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Have you ever wondered what the longest human pregnancy ever recorded was? We can tell you that it was a long time, an extremely long time. So long in fact that it makes you question its authenticity. However, the longest human pregnancy was a documented event verified with laboratory tests. Most pregnancies last for about …
Reading Time: 2 minutes How many sexual partners have you had in a lifetime? For the majority of people reading this right now, it would be very few. A lot of people only have a mere handful of partners with whom they engage in sexual activity with. But alas, the majority of us are mere amateurs on the sex …
Reading Time: 2 minutes The fattest woman ever recorded was Carol Ann Yager who weighed 544 kg (1200 lbs), and measured between 4 and 5 feet (1.2 and 1.5 meters) in width at the time of her death, and that was after losing weight. It has been estimated that at one point in her life she weighed as much …
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Australian Cricket player Donald Bradman is often regarded as the best batsman, and sometimes the best cricketer that has ever lived. He was so good that the rules of the game were altered following a cricket series in Australia in 1932-1933 between Australia and Great Britain that became known as “Bodyline.” Following his complete domination …
Reading Time: < 1 minute Talk about being in top form. In 1920 baseball player Babe Ruth broke the home run record of 29 in a single season. He went on to be the first to hit 30, 40 and 50 home runs in that very same season. <source>
Reading Time: < 1 minute Former Australian cricketer Don Bradman was so good, and so revered not only have songs been written about him, but also film, landmarks named after him, coins minted of him, a Boeing named in his name, a museum about him, many books written about him, awards in his name, and even a plant named after …
Reading Time: 2 minutes The loudest noise ever heard was an event so shocking and terrible that not only was it deafening, but also tremendously destructive. It wasn’t exactly the sound that caused the destruction, although it in itself would have had enough power to cause damage, it was the event that caused the loudest noise ever heard that was …
