Tuesday, August 27, 2013
World's Longest Tongue
- Have you ever wondered who has the longest tongue in the world? That's why you're here right! According to the Guinness World Records, the current world recorder holder for the longest tongue is Stephen Taylor (UK). Mr. Taylor has a tongue that measures 9.5 cm (3.74 in) from the tip to the centre of his closed top lip. Details below:
 |
|
The record holder for the longest tongue before Stephen Taylor was Annika Irmler. Annika still holds the longest tongue for a female at 7 centimetres (2.76 inches) Looking at these two pictures, it looks like Annika's tongue is longer, however, the difference between Annika's tongue and Stephen's is 2.5 centimeters or .98 inches. That's almost one full inch!
|  |
LONGEST LEGS IN THE WORLD!!
DO YOU KNOW THAT ?? : Svetlana Pankratova holds the World Record for longest legs. The 42 year old Svetlana, former Basketball player has legs measuring 4 feet 4 inches but her normal dimesions of upper body prevented her from being tallest woman in the world. Her height oh 6 feet 5 inches make har a superb basketball player. She has also very large feet, size 13 .
The woman with the world’s longest legs is a high school basketball coach in Virginia.
According to a Falls Church News-Press report from earlier this month, Svetlana Pankratova — who in 2003 clinched the Guinness World Record title for the longest female legs — is an assistantcoach for the girls’ basketball team at George Mason High School in Falls Church.
“I’m grateful for the opportunity for me to work with them,” Pankratova, who stands at 6 feet 5 inches, told the newspaper about her gig. “Because I stopped playing basketball…so it was great to get back to basketball and I really do enjoy it and it brings all the nice memories back and I just enjoy giving them what I know to help them any way I can.”
Pankratova, whose super-lengthy pins are almost 4 feet 4 inches long, was once a star basketballplayer herself — first in her native Russia and then with Virginia Commonwealth University.
Now, Pankratova is bringing her skills to the high school basketball arena.
Much like their towering coach, the George Mason girls’ basketball team has been described as a “powerhouse” to be reckoned with.
According to the Washington Post, the team has won “three of the last four state championships in Virginia A-Division 2.” The team made it to the semi-finals again this year but was defeated in a final four game last week.
“No one’s going to feel sorry for us,” head coach LaBryan Thomas told the Washington Post after the loss. “Because we’ve been here so many times. But this one hurts.”
Pankratova is not the only statuesque world-record holder who has a penchant for shooting hoops.
When she was younger, Yao Defen — the world’s tallest woman until her death last year — learned to play basketball as a youth, the Associated Press reports.
Sultan Kosen, currently the world’s tallest man, was once recruited to play for a professionalbasketball team in his native Turkey, according to Argentine sports magazine El Gráfico. Unfortunately, Kosen, who has acromegaly, eventually became incapable of walking unaided, and his professional hoop dreams were left unfulfilled.
WORLD’S LARGEST HIPS- MEASURES 8 FEETS!!
DO YOU KNOW THAT ?? : Mikel Ruffinelli is proud to have the world’s biggest or say largest natural hips. It measures more then eight feet round. She drive truck, as her hips are not able to squeeze into a car seat.
Mikel,39 year mum of four’s amazing natural 100in curves mean she struggles to get through doorways — and needs two seats on planes. She needs a reinforced chair at home.
Yet the plus-size model — a trim 10st as a teenager — is PROUD of her figure and does not want to lose weight, even though she often attracts jeers. She said: “Everywhere I go I get attention for my hips — both good and bad.
“When I walk down the street I can hear the shutters going on cameraphones and people laughing at me.
“I’ve heard people saying, ‘Look at her fat a**’.
“Some people assume I’ve had surgery to enhance my a** and hips, but it’s all natural. I think that it’s the result of having four children, but large hips also run in my family.”
Mikel was a normal-sized youngster and even in her early 20s tipped the scales at a modest 13st.
But at 22, she put on four stone after having first child Andrew, now 18. And after daughters Destynee, 13, Autumn, eight, and Justyce, seven, followed, her weight and hips ballooned further.
But despite her curves she stands at just 5ft 4ins and has a proportionally small 40-inch waist Married Mikel, of Los Angeles, owns up to the difficulties that her size causes in everyday life.
She revealed: “When I travel by plane or train I have to buy two seats because I can’t fit my a** into one. It gets quite expensive. I drive a truck rather than using public transport wherever possible because it’s big enough to fit all of me in.
“Going through tight spaces is sometimes a problem for me and I have to go through doorways sideways.
“And I can’t close the shower door because my hips get in the way. I’ve even been stuck in the bath before.”
On an average day she has two eggs, sausage, bacon and half a dozen potatoes for breakfast.
Her lunch is often fried fish and chips and dinner is barbecue chicken with rice or mashed potato.
In between meals Mikel snacks on peanuts, granola bars and crisps. And hubby Reggie Brooks, 40, is delighted at her well-fed figure.
The computer technician — wed to her for ten years — beamed: “I love her shape. When we met she already had big hips. That’s one of things that attracted me.
50 Strange Buildings of the World
1. The Crooked House (Sopot, Poland)
Construction of the building started in in January 2003 and in December 2003 it was finished. House architecture is based on Jan Marcin Szancer (famous Polish artist and child books illustrator) and Per Dahlberg (Swedish painter living in Sopot) pictures and paintings.
Image via: brocha2. Forest Spiral – Hundertwasser Building (Darmstadt, Germany)
The Hundertwasser house “Waldspirale” (”Forest Spiral”) was built in Darmstadt between 1998 and 2000. Friedensreich Hundertwasser, the famous Austrian architect and painter, is widely renowned for his revolutionary, colourful architectural designs which incorporate irregular, organic forms, e.g. onion-shaped domes.
The structure with 105 apartments wraps around a landscaped courtyard with a running stream. Up in the turret at the southeast corner, there is a restaurant, including a cocktail bar.
Image via: Kikos Dad3. The Torre Galatea Figueras (Spain)
Image via: manuelfloresv4. Ferdinand Cheval Palace a.k.a Ideal Palace (France)
Image via: Mélisande*5. The Basket Building (Ohio, United States)
The Longaberger Basket Company building in Newark, Ohio might just be a strangest office building in the world. The 180,000-square-foot building, a replica of the company’s famous market basket, cost $30 million and took two years to complete. Many experts tried to persuade Dave Longaberger to alter his plans, but he wanted an exact replica of the real thing.
Image via: addicted Eyes6. Kansas City Public Library (Missouri, United States)
This project, located in the heart of Kansas City, represents one of the pioneer projects behind the revitalization of downtown.
The people of Kansas City were asked to help pick highly influential books that represent Kansas City. Those titles were included as ‘bookbindings’ in the innovative design of the parking garage exterior, to inspire people to utilize the downtown Central Library.
Image via: jonathan_moreau7. Wonderworks (Pigeon Forge, TN, United States)
8. Habitat 67 (Montreal, Canada)
Expo 67, one of the world’s largest universal expositions was held in Montreal. Housing was one of the main themes of Expo 67.
The cube is the base, the mean and the finality of Habitat 67. In its material sense, the cube is a symbol of stability. As for its mystic meaning, the cube is symbol of wisdom, truth, moral perfection, at the origin itself of our civilization.
354 cubes of a magnificent grey-beige build up one on the other to form 146 residences nestled between sky and earth, between city and river, between greenery and light.
Image via: ken ratcliff9. Cubic Houses (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
The original idea of these cubic houses came about in the 1970s. Piet Blom has developed a couple of these cubic houses that were built in Helmond.
The city of Rotterdam asked him to design housing on top of a pedestrian bridge and he decided to use the cubic houses idea. The concept behind these houses is that he tries to create a forest by each cube representing an abstract tree; therefore the whole village becomes a forest.
Image via: vpzone10. Hang Nga Guesthouse a.k.a Crazy House (Vietnam)
The house is owned by the daughter of the ex-president of Vietnam, who studied architecture in Moscow.
It does not comply with any convention about house building, has unexpected twists and turns, roofs and rooms. It looks like a fairy tale castle, it has enormous “animals” like a giraffe and a spider, no window is rectangular or round, and it can be visited like a museum.
Image via: JonasPhoto11. Chapel in the Rock (Arizona, United States)
Image via: santanartist12. Dancing Building (Prague, Czech Republic)
Image via: jemil7513. Calakmul building a.k.a La Lavadora a.k.a The Washing Mashine (Mexico, Mexico)
Image via: marj k14. Kettle House (Texas, United States)
Image via: y luckyfukr15. Manchester Civil Justice Centre (Manchester, UK)
Image via: tj.blackwell16. Nakagin Capsule Tower (Tokyo, Japan)
Image via: pict_u_re17. Mind House (Barcelona, Spain)
Image via: angelocesare18. Stone House (Guimarães, Portugal)
image via: Jsome119. Shoe House (Pennsylvania, United States)
Image via: James Gordon20. Weird House in Alps
Image via: nicolasnova21. The Ufo House (Sanjhih, Taiwan)
Image via: cypherone @ Taiwan22. The Hole House (Texas, United States)
Image via: melinnis23. Ryugyong Hotel (Pyongyang, North Korea)
Image via: Pricey24. The National Library (Minsk, Belarus)
Image via: ledsmagazine.com25. Grand Lisboa (Macao)
Image via: Michael McDonough26. Wall House (Groningen, Netherlands)
Image via: Liao Yusheng27. Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao, Spain)
Image via: disgustipado28. Bahá’í House of Worship a.k.a Lotus Temple (Delhi, India)
Image via: MACSURAK29. Container City (London, UK)
Image via: y Fin Fahey30. Erwin Wurm: House Attack (Viena, Austria)
Image via: Dom Dada31. Wooden Gagster House (Archangelsk, Russia)
Image via: deputy-dog.com32. Air Force Academy Chapel (Colorado, United States)
Image via: dbking33. Solar Furnace (Odeillo, France)
Image via: f2g234. Dome House (Florida, United States)
Image via: easement35. Beijing National Stadium (Beijing, China)
Image via: littlemalt36. Fashion Show Mall (Las Vegas, United States)
Image via: b2tse37. Luxor Hotel & Casino (Las Vegas, United States)
Image via: wallyg38. Zenith Europe (Strasbourg, France)
Image via: Edouard5539. Civic Center (Santa Monica)
Image via: karenchu12140. Mammy’s Cupboard (Natchez, MS, United States)
Image via: Live Simply41. Pickle Barrel House (Grand Marais, Michigan, United States)
Image via: the naked fauxtographer42. The Egg (Empire State Plaza, Albany, New York, United States)
Image via: iessi43. Gherkin Building (London, UK)
Image via: Lawrie Cate44. Nord LB building (Hannover, Germany)
Image via: iterby45. Lloyd’s building (London, UK)
Image via: ryanfb46. “Druzhba Holiday Center Hall (Yalta, Ukraine)
Image via: Argenberg47. Fuji television building (Tokyo, Japan)
Image via: kamoda48. UCSD Geisel Library (San Diego, California, United States)
Image via: ewen and donabel49. Ripley’s Building (Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada)
Image via: Bekah26750. The Bank of Asia a.k.a Robot Building (Bangkok, Thailand)
Image via: hewy
P.S. currently new comments are not being approved, because there are just too much of them, but don’t be afraid, we see them, and when we install a proper plugin for comment management, they will all appear here.
Subscribe to:
Comments (Atom)