Buster Martin, United Kingdom's Oldest Employee at 102 Years Old
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 evenruns 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.
Mary Tilly and Evelyn Hodge, World's Longest Neighbours at 72 Years
Mary Tilly and Evelyn Hodge were recognized by Guinness Book of Records as the world's longest neighbors. The two have been neighbors for 72 years, and still counting.
"We have seen many changes during our lives together as neighbours – but fundamentally our homes are still the same as they were when we both came to live here." Mrs Tilley added: "I'm blessed to have Evelyn."
Robert Wadlow, World's Tallest Man in Medical History at 2.72 Meter
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.
Tree of Ténéré, World's Most Isolated Tree
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.
Songbirds' Throat Muscles, World's Fastest Muscle
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.
Salamander Tongue, World's Most Explosive Muscle
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.
Erik Nordenankar's Self Portrait, World's Biggest Drawing
Swedish artist Erik Nordenankar claims his self portrait drawing is the world's biggest drawing. It was done using a GPS device stuffed inside a briefcase which he sent around the globe via DHL, with exact co-ordinates to draw the figure. When the package returned after 55-day journey around the world, he downloaded the GPS's route to produce the gigantic drawing which is composed of a single 110,00km long line that passes through six continents and 62 countries.
"In order to make the drawing that I wanted, I developed a GPS device with extended tracklog and battery time," Nordenankar claims. As "evidence" of his achievement he has posted the picture, his complete delivery instructions to DHL, two photos of his GPS suitcase and a photo of a wad of DHL delivery notes onto his website.
Hercules, World's Largest Lion-Tiger Breed at 900 Lbs
Hercules is the world's largest Lion-Tiger breed or Liger at 900 lbs and still growing. He can stands 10 feet tall when standing on his back legs.
He looks like something from a prehistoric age or a fantastic creation from Hollywood . But Hercules is very much living flesh and blood - as he proves every time he opens his gigantic mouth to roar. Called a liger, in reference to his crossbreed parentage, he is the largest of all the cat species. On a typical day he will devour 20lb of meat, usually beef or chicken, and is capable of eating 100lb at a single setting. At just three years old, Hercules already weighs half a ton.
Min Bahadur Sherchan, Oldest Man to Climb Mount Everest at 76
At 76 years old and 25 days away from his 77th birthday, Nepalese man Min Bahadur Sherchan becaming the oldest man to climb the 29,035-foot Mount Everest. He reached the summit of on the 25th of May 2008 and became the oldest person to climb the world's highest mountain.
He beat the record set last year by Japanese climber Katsusuke Yanagisawa, who scaled the peak at age 71. Sherchan was in good health and was descending from the summit, Chetri said.
The former soldier climbed smaller mountains before Everest and has been an active sportsman, Chetri said.
He said about a dozen climbers scaled Everest on Sunday following one of the busiest weeks in the mountain's climbing season.
World's Largest and Heaviest Emerald
The world's largest and heaviest emerald was displayed in Hong Kong. It weighed 536 kg and 125 cm in lenght, 55 cm in height and 78 cm in depth.
Manuel Uribe of Mexico, World's Heaviest Living Man at 1,200 Lbs
At top of his weight of more than 1,200 lbs, 42-year-old Manuel Uribe from Monterrey, was considered the world's heaviest living man in medical history. He is currently on The Zone diet under supervision of doctors and nutritionist, and is now slowly losing weight. He do exercise on his bed by doing dancing-like motion to speed up his metabolism.
Uribe is beyond the kind of overweight that comes from fast food and lack of exercise. Doctors call it morbid obesity.
According to the National Institutes of Health, obesity means weighing 20 percent or more than your ideal body weight, and it's a health risk.
Morbid obesity is altogether different. Sometimes called "clinically severe obesity," it means you're 100 pounds or more over ideal body weight, with a body mass index of 40 or higher.
Uribe doesn't gain weight like the rest of us. Brain chemistry, genetic mutation, addiction, psychological pain -- or an unhappy combination of all of them -- makes morbid obesity one of the biggest mysteries of medicine.
World’s Smallest Bowl of Ramen at 1 Micron in Width
This world’s smallest bowl of ramen at 1 Micron in width (1/100th the width of a human hair), contains dozens of 20-nanometer (1/50,000-mm) thick noodles. It was created by University of Tokyo professor Masayuki Nakao by using a metal particle beam to carve the bowl from silicon, and a mixed of soup of ethanol and catalyst inside the bowl to form the carbon nanotube "noodles".
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 evenruns 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.
Mary Tilly and Evelyn Hodge, World's Longest Neighbours at 72 Years
Mary Tilly and Evelyn Hodge were recognized by Guinness Book of Records as the world's longest neighbors. The two have been neighbors for 72 years, and still counting.
"We have seen many changes during our lives together as neighbours – but fundamentally our homes are still the same as they were when we both came to live here." Mrs Tilley added: "I'm blessed to have Evelyn."
Robert Wadlow, World's Tallest Man in Medical History at 2.72 Meter
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.
Tree of Ténéré, World's Most Isolated Tree
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.
Songbirds' Throat Muscles, World's Fastest Muscle
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.
Salamander Tongue, World's Most Explosive Muscle
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.
Erik Nordenankar's Self Portrait, World's Biggest Drawing
Swedish artist Erik Nordenankar claims his self portrait drawing is the world's biggest drawing. It was done using a GPS device stuffed inside a briefcase which he sent around the globe via DHL, with exact co-ordinates to draw the figure. When the package returned after 55-day journey around the world, he downloaded the GPS's route to produce the gigantic drawing which is composed of a single 110,00km long line that passes through six continents and 62 countries.
"In order to make the drawing that I wanted, I developed a GPS device with extended tracklog and battery time," Nordenankar claims. As "evidence" of his achievement he has posted the picture, his complete delivery instructions to DHL, two photos of his GPS suitcase and a photo of a wad of DHL delivery notes onto his website.
Hercules, World's Largest Lion-Tiger Breed at 900 Lbs
Hercules is the world's largest Lion-Tiger breed or Liger at 900 lbs and still growing. He can stands 10 feet tall when standing on his back legs.
He looks like something from a prehistoric age or a fantastic creation from Hollywood . But Hercules is very much living flesh and blood - as he proves every time he opens his gigantic mouth to roar. Called a liger, in reference to his crossbreed parentage, he is the largest of all the cat species. On a typical day he will devour 20lb of meat, usually beef or chicken, and is capable of eating 100lb at a single setting. At just three years old, Hercules already weighs half a ton.
Min Bahadur Sherchan, Oldest Man to Climb Mount Everest at 76
At 76 years old and 25 days away from his 77th birthday, Nepalese man Min Bahadur Sherchan becaming the oldest man to climb the 29,035-foot Mount Everest. He reached the summit of on the 25th of May 2008 and became the oldest person to climb the world's highest mountain.
He beat the record set last year by Japanese climber Katsusuke Yanagisawa, who scaled the peak at age 71. Sherchan was in good health and was descending from the summit, Chetri said.
The former soldier climbed smaller mountains before Everest and has been an active sportsman, Chetri said.
He said about a dozen climbers scaled Everest on Sunday following one of the busiest weeks in the mountain's climbing season.
World's Largest and Heaviest Emerald
The world's largest and heaviest emerald was displayed in Hong Kong. It weighed 536 kg and 125 cm in lenght, 55 cm in height and 78 cm in depth.
Manuel Uribe of Mexico, World's Heaviest Living Man at 1,200 Lbs
At top of his weight of more than 1,200 lbs, 42-year-old Manuel Uribe from Monterrey, was considered the world's heaviest living man in medical history. He is currently on The Zone diet under supervision of doctors and nutritionist, and is now slowly losing weight. He do exercise on his bed by doing dancing-like motion to speed up his metabolism.
Uribe is beyond the kind of overweight that comes from fast food and lack of exercise. Doctors call it morbid obesity.
According to the National Institutes of Health, obesity means weighing 20 percent or more than your ideal body weight, and it's a health risk.
Morbid obesity is altogether different. Sometimes called "clinically severe obesity," it means you're 100 pounds or more over ideal body weight, with a body mass index of 40 or higher.
Uribe doesn't gain weight like the rest of us. Brain chemistry, genetic mutation, addiction, psychological pain -- or an unhappy combination of all of them -- makes morbid obesity one of the biggest mysteries of medicine.
World’s Smallest Bowl of Ramen at 1 Micron in Width
This world’s smallest bowl of ramen at 1 Micron in width (1/100th the width of a human hair), contains dozens of 20-nanometer (1/50,000-mm) thick noodles. It was created by University of Tokyo professor Masayuki Nakao by using a metal particle beam to carve the bowl from silicon, and a mixed of soup of ethanol and catalyst inside the bowl to form the carbon nanotube "noodles".
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