The XO Directory

If you are bored with theme parks and carnivals, why not hit the road and visit the world's largest roadside attractions. This super extra-large building and statues will certainly make your vacation days "overwhelming".

World's largest basket-shaped building, Newark, Ohio.

"Big Golden Guitar", located at Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia

The World's Largest Muskie, at the National Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame; Hayward, WI.

World's Largest Axe in Nackawic, New Brunswick

Paletta Grande. The big scoop aluminum sculpture situated posterior to Da Vinci's Horse is 12x12 foot with a 22 foot wood handle.

Salem Sue a.k.a. The World's Largest Holstein Cow, is a large fiberglass holstein cow sculpture located in New Salem, North Dakota

Big Pineapple at Nambour, Queensland

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In China, Jin Chang's small two-storey home is holding down a £300 million development scheme by refusing to abandon his home. His house the last one standing in the area in the center of a construction site. Jin Chang is asking more compensation before agreeing to demolish his house.

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Elise Tan Roberst is a 2 year old child from Britain with 156 IQ. She is the youngest member of MENSA, the oldest and best known high-IQ society in the world. At 2 years old, Elise can also recite the phonetic alphabet, count to 10 in Spanish and memorize the capital of 35 countries.



To give you an idea about how intelligent she is, consider this, Albert Einstein, named the greatest scientist of the 21st century has an IQ of 160. See her video below.

Rita Levi Montalcini is a 100 years old scientist from Italy who has recently celebrated her 100th birthday. Together with Stanley Cohen, she won a Nobel Prize in 1986 for discovering mechanisms that regulate the growth of cells and organs.

At 100 years old, Montalcini says that her mind is sharper than when she was at her 20's, which she attributed to her experiences in life.

"At 100, I have a mind that is superior — thanks to experience — than when I was 20," she told the party, complete with a large cake for her.

The Turin-born Levi Montalcini recounted how the anti-Jewish laws of the 1930s under Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime forced her to quit university and do research in an improvised laboratory in her bedroom at home.

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If you think you are safe with all this gadgetries in you position, watch this video and see how a GPS can leave you vulnerable to break-in to you house.

Who says a pet dog is vulnerable when it's away from it's home. Well, this one not the case. Sophie, a pet dog survived in island eating baby goats for four months. While her owners was, Dave and Jan Griffith, was on a sailing trip off the coast of Australia, Sophie fell into the water and was never found. Four months later, she was discovered in an island four miles from where she fell and was reunited with her owners.

Sophie’s mind-boggling survival story, chronicled on TODAY Tuesday, began as Jan and husband Dave took their pet along for a sailing trip off the coast of Australia last November. When the sea grew rough, Sophie dropped into the water.

“We searched well over an hour,” Jan Griffith told the Brisbane Times. “We thought once she hit the water she would have been gone because the wake from the boat was so big.”

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At approximately US$2,000 (Rs.100,000), the Tata Nano is the world's cheapest car to date. This city car is manufactured by Tata Motors of India and aimed primarily for the Indian market (too bad for the US market). It was presented on January 10, 2008, at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi, India and will be available in on March 23, 2009 to the Indian consumers.

With a dimension of 122 in. X 59.1 in. X 63 in. (LxWxH), it's amazing that this car has a capacity of four passengers and have four doors.

The prefix "nano-" derives from the Greek root 'nanos', meaning dwarf. "Nano" also means "small" in Gujarati, the native language of the Tata family, founders of the Tata Group.

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