1. Grandmother Diana Nyad, 64, swims into the record books,she becomes first person to complete mammoth 103 mile swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage.
2. The
Journey to the bottom of the sea.Scientists have discovered hidden
underwater traces of a city that existed at Alexandria at least seven
centuries before Alexander the Great arrived.
3. The 61-year-old, potato farmer won a Ultra Marathon by running while everyone else slept
In 1983, the 61-year-old potato farmer won the inaugural Westfield Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon, a distance of 875 kilometres (544 mi). The race was run between what were then Australia's two largest Westfield shopping centres: Westfield Parramatta, in Sydney, and Westfield Doncaster, in Melbourne.He ran at a slow loping pace and trailed the leaders for most of the first day, but by running while the others slept, he took the lead the first night and maintained it for the remainder of the race, eventually winning by ten hours.
4. There is a Japanese family that has run the same hotel for nearly 1300 years
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| Japanese Hotel of a family |
6.The industrial production of cream cheese is extremely difficult and involves changing polarity at the molecular level. Kraft controls 70% of the market and has kept the recipe secret for 80 years, which is currently held in a vault in New York
7. There's a breed of cats called Munchkins. They have tiny legs and look like this.
8. An Institute in Colorado created a atomic clock so accurate it won't lose/gain a second in 20 million years. This is the clock used for internet time!
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| Most Dangerous Animal |
10. The Statue of Liberty was originally meant to Egypt, not the U.S.!The
statue, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and dedicated on October
28, 1886, was a gift to the United States from the people of France.The
statue is an icon of freedom and of the United States
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| Statue of Liberty |
