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Dubai Apartments, Properties, Buy, Sale, Rent
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Ethiopian man claims he is 160 years old and can recall the Italian invasion of his country in 1895
MANY people won't be aware of Italy's invasion of Ethiopia in 1895, but one man doesn't just know about the battle - he claims to have lived through it. Retired farmer Dhaqabo Ebba, from Ethiopia, says he is a staggering 160 years old, which would make him the world's oldest living man. He claims to have clear memories of Italy's invasion of his country in the 19th century - however, there is no birth certificate to prove his age.
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Mexican man, once world's heaviest, dies at 48
A Mexican man once listed as the world's heaviest human being died Monday at the age of 48. Manuel Uribe had slimmed down to about 867 pounds (394 kilograms), well below his then-record peak weight of 1,230 pounds (560 kilograms), which was certified in 2006 as a Guinness World Record.
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The world's tallest ever Lego tower in Hungary
Official Lego Builders travelled from Denmark to Hungary last week and succeeded in breaking the world record for the tallest ever tower of Lego.
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Alex Trebek, Sudbury-born Jeopardy! host, sets world record
The Jeopardy! game show marked a significant milestone when it ran its 6,829th episode this week. Host Alex Trebek set a world record for the most game show episodes hosted by the same presenter for the same program.
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GoPro: Longest Jump Story
Professional skier and rally driver Guerlain Chicherit attempted to beat the world record for longest ramp car jump. The result was not what he had hoped for, and the video that came from it was not just a crash video.
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111-year-old Japanese becomes world's oldest man
A 111-year-old Japanese national has been certified as the world's oldest man. With this, Japan now boasts of having the world's oldest man and woman.
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127-year-old said to be 'the oldest person to ever live'
When Leandra Becerra Lumbreras was born, the dust had still not settled on the Civil War, Teddy Roosevelt was a little-known cowboy in the Dakotas, and no one had ever heard of radio, basketball or the airplane.
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Most consecutive pinky pull-ups
Maibam Itomba Meitei performs the most consecutive pull-ups...using only his two pinkies!
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Man Sets World Record for Deepest Underwater Dive
An Egyptian man recently took the ultimate plunge for the sake of science. Setting a new Guinness World Record for the deepest scuba dive, the man dove more than 1,000 feet (305 meters) below the surface of the Red Sea.
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Philippines 'breaks world tree-planting record'
Philippine officials said Saturday they had set a new world record for the most trees planted in an hour, with 3.2 million seedlings sown as part of a national forestation programme.
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Hot air balloon descends into cave
Austrian balloon pilot Ivan Trifonov has succeeded in taking a balloon deep underground. The feat, which is believed to be a world first, was filmed and is being submitted to the Guinness Book of World Records.
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Man Sets Guinness World Record for Largest Collection of James Bond Memorabilia With 12,463 Pieces
Nick Bennett from Leigh, Lancashire in the United Kingdom has set a new Guinness World Record for “Largest Collection of James Bond Memorabilia” with 12,463 pieces. In an interview with Guinness, Bennett admits that he has continued purchasing items for his collection after the official count was taken and estimates it to be around 16,000 items currently.
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Swiss Pocket Watch Sells for Record $24 Million
A Swiss-made pocket watch fetched a record $24 million, the most ever paid for a timepiece, at a Sotheby’s auction in Geneva on Tuesday. The Henry Graves Jr. Supercomplication is named after a New York banker who competed with the car manufacturer James Ward Packard to commission the most elaborate watch possible in the early 20th century, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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World’s Tallest Man Meets World’s Shortest Man
oday is Guinness World Records Day, and the record-keepin' company celebrated with a meeting between the world's tallest and shortest men in London. Turkey's Sultan Kosen is 8-foot-3, and Nepal's Chandra Bahadur Dangi is 1-foot-9.5. Kosen is a 31-year-old farmer, and Dangi is a 74-year-old who makes "placemats and head straps for villagers carrying heavy loads...
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Faster than a speeding bullet? Meet the world's first 1,000 mph car
What has a jet engine, a rocket booster and travels on a set of aluminum wheels? It's the Bloodhound SuperSonic Car (SSC) and it has plans to hit the world land speed record at 1,000 mph. Made of titanium, carbon fiber and, like superman, is designed to go faster than a speeding bullet, the Bloodhound SSC has been painstakingly put together and tested over the better part of six years.
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Sea ghost breaks record for deepest living fish
A newly-discovered species with a bizarre body has been spotted deeper down than any other living fish.
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Watch the world's best parallel parking job break a world record
Exciting. Nail-biting. Jaw-dropping. These are not words you use to describe someone parallel parking a Fiat — unless you're watching stunt driver Alastair Moffatt do it.
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Why Is India So Crazy for World Records?
The first time Nikhil Shukla adjudicated a Guinness world record, two million people turned up. Standing on a makeshift dais just before dawn in January 2012, Shukla gazed with bleary, incredulous eyes; he was 28, and he had never seen such a mammoth crowd in his life. Tolls on the national highway from the nearest city, Rajkot, had been suspended to accommodate the traffic, and Shukla had to trudge 20 minutes from his V.I.P. parking spot...
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Bloodhound SSC: Meet the fastest car ever made
Part spaceship, part racing car, part jet fighter, we go behind-the-scenes to discover how to reach 1,000mph on land.
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