This man has an extraordinary long tongue that he can reach his eye with it.

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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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This is a video of El Camino del Rey, one of the world’s dangerous walkway in southern Spain. I was made to provide walkway for the workers of the Chorro Falls and Gaitanejo Falls, who were making a dam that time, to provide transport of materials. I took four years to finish, from 1901 to 1905.

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An ancient Persian gold cup relic which served as childhood toy of John Webber is expected to fetch some 500,000 pounds. This ancient relic, which was made hundreds of years before the birth of Jesus Christ, stayed in a shoe box under his bed for years. His grandfather give the 5.5 inch high mug to him when he was a child back in 1945.

Experts said the method of manufacture and the composition of the gold was “consistent with Achaemenid gold and gold smithing” dating back to the third or fourth century BC.

The Achaemenid empire, the first of the Persian empires to rule over significant portions of Greater Iran, was wiped out by Alexander the Great in 330 BC.

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This is the before and after NASA’s Terra satellite photos of Cyclone Nargis that hit southern Myanmar on May 2 and 3 this year. It left massive floodwaters the devastated the region and killed nearly 100,000 based on the latest estimate.

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An Australian man named Colin Campbell Ross was pardoned, only, 86 years after being executed by hanging to death in 1922. He was charged with murder and rape of a young girl and dumping her body in an alley in 1921. But only recently, new tests found evidence against him was flawed – which led to him being to be acquitted of the crime.

“This really is a tragic case where a miscarriage of justice has resulted in a man being hanged,” Victoria’s Attorney-General Rob Hulls said on Tuesday. “This pardon is a recognition that there are serious doubts about Mr Ross’s conviction for murder.” Australia is a strong opponent of the death penalty, with the last hanging taking place in Melbourne in 1967 when petty criminal Ronald Ryan was executed for his involvement in a prison escape, during which a prison guard was shot dead.

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This is an extraordinary video of double knockout during the LFC 25.

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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.

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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.

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Yosuke, an African grey parrot, went missing for two weeks. When rescued by police and transfered to a veterinary hospital, it chatted with the vets and told them it’s name and address.

“I’m Mr. Yosuke Nakamura,” the bird told the veterinarian, according to Uemura. The parrot also provided his full home address, down to the street number, and even entertained the hospital staff by singing songs.

“We checked the address, and what do you know, a Nakamura family really lived there. So we told them we’ve found Yosuke,” Uemura said.

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