Warren Buffet makes it to the top of the world’s top ten billionaires list who has an estimated $62 billion total assets. While Bill Gates who was previously number one, is now on the third position.
1. Warren Buffett
2. Carlos Slim Helu
3. William Gates III
4. Lakshmi Mittal
5. Mukesh Ambani
6. Anil Ambani
7. Ingvar Kamprad
8. KP Singh
9. Oleg Deripaska
10. Karl Albrecht
Not only that Gaboon Viper has the largest venom yield per bite of all venomous snakes, it is also the world’s heaviest viperid and has the longest fangs that reach to 2.2 inches on average. This snake has pair of horns is present between the raised nostrils
Bitis gabonica is a venomous viper species found in the rainforests and savannas of Sub-Saharan Africa. This is not only the largest member of the genus Bitis, but also the world’s heaviest viperid and it has the longest fangs and the highest venom yield of any venomous snake. Adults average 122–152 cm in length with a maximum of 205 cm for a specimen collected in Sierra Leone. The sexes may be distinguished by the length of the tail in relation to the total length of the body: approximately 12% for males and 6% for females. Adults, especially females, are very heavy and stout.
A 13-foot Burmese python burst after eating an alligator almost equal to it’s size. The dead animals was discovered by rangers at the Everglades National Park.
The remains of the two prodigious reptiles were discovered by surprised rangers in the Everglades National Park. The rangers say the find implies that non-native Burmese pythons might even challenge alligators’ leading position in the food chain in the swamps. The python’s remains were found with the victim’s tail sticking out from its burst midsection. The head of the python was missing. The stomach of the python still surrounded the head, shoulders, and forelimbs of the alligator.
Iranian Mehran Karimi Nasseri, a.k.a the Terminal Man, lived in the Charles de Gaulle Airport for 18 Years, from 1988 to 2006. The movie The Terminal, starring Tom Hanks, is said to be inspired by his life story in the airport.
Mehran Karimi Nasseri born 1942 in Masjed Soleiman, Iran), also known as Sir, Alfred Mehran, is an Iranian refugee who lived in the departure lounge of Terminal One in Charles de Gaulle Airport from 8 August 1988 until August 2006, when he was hospitalized for an unspecified ailment.
Hai Ngoc, a Sixty-four-year-old Vietnamese living in central Quang Nam province, had been sleepless for more than 30 years. He claimed that his inability to sleep at night began after he got a fever in 1973.
“I don’t know whether the insomnia has impacted my health or not. But I’m still healthy and can farm normally like others,” Ngoc said.
Proving his health, the elderly resident of Que Trung commune, Que Son district said he can carry two 50kg bags of fertilizer down 4km of road to return home every day.
His wife said, “My husband used to sleep well, but these days, even liquor cannot put him down.”
Warren Buffett is currently the world’s richest man as of March 2008. This 77-year-old native of Omaha, Nebraska, has an estimated $62 billion worth of assets. His businesses includes insurance, jewelry , utilities, food, among others.
America’s most beloved investor is now the world’s richest man. Soared past friend and bridge partner Bill Gates as shares of Berkshire Hathaway climbed 25% since the middle of last July. Son of Nebraska politician delivered newspapers as a boy. Filed first tax return at age 13, claiming $35 deduction for bicycle. Studied under value investing guru Benjamin Graham at Columbia. Took over textile firm Berkshire Hathaway 1965.
If you are wondering how much distance man can travel in 24 hours under his own power, Greg Kolodziejzyk can tell you that. He travelled 647 Miles in one day under his own power and sets the Guinness World Record.
Greg Kolodziejzyk is a retired entrepreneur on a mission to break the existing 24 hour human powered distance record of 1021.36 km set in 1995. That’s almost the distance from a snow shovel in Calgary to a palm tree in California. He has exactly 24 hours to do it and it will be strictly under his own power. No wind or stored energy of any sort allowed. Greg designed and built a custom carbon fiber bicycle called “Critical Power”. More appropriately called a “Human powered vehicle”, Critical Power is a two wheeled recumbent bicycle encapsulated by a bullet-like streamlined body called a fairing. The sleek body was computer designed for maximum aerodynamic efficiency by Ben Eadie of Mountain-wave.ca. CP is capable of achieving speeds in excess of 100 km per hour and was built to maintain a cruising speed of 50 kph on a flat road with effort levels that would see a paltry 20 kph on a typical mountain bike.
With about 11,000 meters deep, the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench is the deepest surveyed point in the Ocean. At this depth, the pressure is approximately 1,095 times that at the surface, or over 16,000 pounds per square inch.
The Challenger Deep is the deepest surveyed point in the oceans, with a depth of about 11,000 metres (about 36,000 feet). It lies in the Mariana Islands group at the southern end of the Mariana Trench. The closest land is Fais Island, one of the outer islands of Yap, 289 km southwest and Guam 306 km to the northeast. The point is named after the British Royal Navy survey ship HMS Challenger, which first discovered the trench in 1872.
Zach Dunlap has been declared dead by his doctors after an all-terrain vehicle accident but came back to life – in time before his organ was to removed by doctor as donations. After four months, he soon recovered fully.
Dunlap was pronounced dead Nov. 19 at United Regional Healthcare System in Wichita Falls, Texas, after he was injured in an all-terrain vehicle accident. His family approved having his organs harvested. As family members were paying their last respects, he moved his foot and hand. He reacted to a pocketknife scraped across his foot and to pressure applied under a fingernail. After 48 days in the hospital, he was allowed to return home, where he continues to work on his recovery.
Antarctica is the coldest place on Earth. It is situated in the southern hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean. At 14.4 million km², it is the fifth-largest continent in area. Some 98% of it is covered by ice, which averages at least 1.6 kilometers in thickness.
At the 3-kilometer (2 mi)-high Vostok Station in Antarctica, scientists recorded the world’s lowest temperature: −89 °C (−129 °F). For comparison, this is 11 degrees colder than sublimating dry ice. Antarctica is a frozen desert with little precipitation; the South Pole itself receives less than 10 centimeters (4 in) per year, on average. Temperatures reach a minimum of between −80 °C and −90 °C (−112 °F and −130 °F) in the interior in winter and reach a maximum of between 5 °C and 15 °C (41 °F and 59 °F) near the coast in summer.
