Archive for July, 2008

Hercules, World’s Largest Lion-Tiger Breed at 900 Lbs

July 30th, 2008 by admin | 2 Comments | Filed in animal, world record

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.

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400 Pound 7-year-old Jessica Gaude, World’s Fattest Child

July 29th, 2008 by admin | 1 Comment | Filed in health, odd videos, people

A 400 pound 7-year-old Jessica Gaude is considered the World’s fattest child by the Guinness Record.

UPDATE: Now 9 years old, Jessica weighs under 150 pounds. She lost almost 200 pounds with the help of a medical center in Virginia, USA specializing in pediatric weight loss.

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300 Pound Tumour, World’s Biggest Tumor Removed from a Human Body

July 28th, 2008 by admin | Comments Off | Filed in health, human body, odd videos

A 300 pound tumor from an unnamed 34-year-old woman’s abdomen was removed via a 6 hour surgery in Stanford Hospital, Palo Alto, California on October 1991. It was the world’s biggest tumor removed from a human body.

300 Pound Tumour, World's Biggest Tumor Removed from a Human Body

300 Pound tumour temoved from a 34-year old woman.

During operation, the woman had to lay on her back because if she lay flat the tumor would crush her abdomen. Doctor had to remove it in one piece because of it being complex. Six hours later, the tumor was successfully remove and later found out that it was benign.

The tumor was a multicystic mass on the right ovary of the woman. The operation was performed by Professor Katherine O’Hanlan of Stanford University Medical Center in California, USA. The tumor had a diameter of 1 meter (3 ft). The patient – who weighed 95 kg (210 lb) after the operation and has made a full recovery – left the operating room on one stretcher and the tumor on another.

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‘Pregnant Man’, Thomas Beatie and His Baby Susan Juliette Video

July 27th, 2008 by admin | Comments Off | Filed in offbeat news, people

In this video, ‘The Pregnant Man’, Thomas Beatie, the first legally transgender male to give birth, and his three-week-old baby are shown for the first time. The baby girl, named Susan Juliette, was 9 pounds, 5 oz. at birth.

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11 Year Old Boy, Bites Pit Bull to Fend off Attack

July 25th, 2008 by admin | 2 Comments | Filed in offbeat news

Now this one’s pretty much a tough 11 year old Brazilian boy. He fend off a attack from a bull dog who bit his left arm by biting back it’s neck.

Almeida grabbed the dog by the neck and bit back — biting so hard that he lost a canine tooth.

Almeida tells the O Globo newspaper: “It is better to lose a tooth than one’s life.”

Stonemasons working nearby chased the dog away before it could attack again.


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Split Tongue with Zipper

July 24th, 2008 by admin | 1 Comment | Filed in odd pictures

This split tongue with zipper is one of the gruesome act of body modification. An act not for the faint of heart.

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Mona Liza Painting Using Microsoft’s Paint Program

July 24th, 2008 by admin | 2 Comments | Filed in odd videos

I thought painting Microsoft’s Paint is very difficult, but look at this guy painting Mona Liza using the Paint program.

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World’s Largest and Heaviest Emerald

July 20th, 2008 by admin | Comments Off | Filed in world record

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.

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What Google Thinks of Special People

July 19th, 2008 by admin | Comments Off | Filed in funny, odd pictures

Maybe Google have to be considerate in showing related searches. :)

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Fishing Bat, Batting Fish

July 18th, 2008 by admin | Comments Off | Filed in animal

In nature, sometimes you are up, sometimes you are down.

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