Number of View: 2610The Auld Dubliner Irish Pub filled an 8-foot-tall glass with 430 gallons of Guinness stout on Saturday, trying to getting into, what else, the Guinness Book of World Records. The pub’s owners had the stout poured as about 400 people crowded into the restaurant and onto the patio to watch as the [...]
Number of View: 1764The BrewDog team have pulled off our most audacious and ambitious project to date, and smashed a world record in the process. We have today, Thursday 26 November 2009, set a new world record after creating the strongest beer in the world. Weighing in at an ABV of 32%, BrewDog’s ‘Tactical Nuclear [...]
Number of View: 3192Mr Gilmour’s pieces are made without even a supporting structure of metal or wood. His sculptures include everything from violins and bicycles to a full-scale Queen Victoria. Mr Gilmour’s passion for using the unusual material stemmed from a desire to promote recycling. Now Mr Gilmour, who is originally from Stockport but lives [...]
Number of View: 5068 XL and XXL condom users seem to have a lot of problems and Durex knows it. The company showed these problems in their creative ads and instantly gained a huge popularity. While those with XL just have to wear longer kilts in Scotland, the girlfriends of those with XXL have a [...]
Number of View: 2846 (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) One wonders what happened to “Temporary Insanity 1″… (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) The boat is called “Rock Buster II”; ironically, the first “Rock Buster” met the exact same fate… (Photo)
Number of View: 3257 Phone Calls from the Dead: The results of a two-year investigation into an incredible phenomenon ($31.20) “There are three types of call: 1. People who had recently passed on or dead for years to out of the blue call family and friends. 2. The receiving kind: you call a house and [...]
Number of View: 3822 A camouflaged house. (Link) Rainbow House On Clipper St. (Link) London house decorated by the painter Stanley Donwood, photo by artofthestate. (Link) Once a symbol for all things chav, Burberry had successfully re-branded itself as one of the UK’s most sophisticated fashion labels. But a Norwegian artist looks set to undo all [...]
Number of View: 8354By David Morton The Middle Ages were not a nice period to live in by our cushy modern standards. Most people were poor, they suffered from disease, and their freedom was owned by wealthy landowners. And if you committed a crime and could not afford to pay a fine, your hand might [...]
Number of View: 3270The 55-year-old Indian businessman spent nearly £350,000 to achieve the record, which took him six years, 10 months and seven days. Mr Samaddar came back with an album of fascinating pictures of himself in offices, bars and hotel lobbies. The traveller first visited Holland in July, 2002, and finished his mission in [...]
Number of View: 2324It looks set to shift up to 150,000 copies on the first day of its release on Monday, a store said. HMV said initial sales from the chain and other entertainment retailers suggested Boyle’s debut album has been selling an amount that most major new albums would typically sell in a week. [...]
Number of View: 41901 Mukesh Ambani $32 billion-Sector:Oil and gas,Petrol e.t.c.,Reliance Industries, India’s most valuable company. 2 Lakshmi Mittal $30 billion-Steel Plant Industries in Brazil, India and the Middle East. 3 Anil Ambani $17.5 billion-Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, with interests in telecom, power, infrastructure, financial services and entertainment. 4 Azim Premji $14.9 billion-Country’s third-largest [...]
Number of View: 5477 Most Spoons Balanced on the Face The most spoons balanced on the face is 16 and was achieved by Joe Allison (United Kingdom), aged 9, in Devon, United Kingdom, on 1 April 2008. Joe used stainless steel teaspoons. He balanced 5 spoons on the forehead, 4 on the cheeks, 1 on [...]
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Number of View: 9671Mother of Most Surviving Children From a Single Birth (8 babies) Nadya Denise Doud-Suleman Gutierrez, known as Octomom in the media, is an American woman who came to international attention when she gave birth to octuplets in January 2009. The Suleman octuplets are only the second full set of octuplets to be [...]
Number of View: 3841 This unbelievable papercraft project, by Japanese art student Wataru Itou, took over 4 years to create and features lights and a moving train. It’s probably the most stunning papercraft sculpture ever. The sculpture is called, in English, “A Castle on the Sea,” and is currently exhibited at Uminohotaru. The entire project, [...]
Number of View: 3912 (Link) (Link) Russian sand sculptor Wiaczeslaw Borecki carves a figure of Michael Jackson during the Sand Sculptures Festival in Blankenberge, Belgium (Link) Sand sculptures representing ‘The World of Pirates‘ are seen during the Sand Sculptures Festival in Blankenberge. (Link) Part of the Circle, by Susanne Ruseler and Arianne van Rosmalen, St [...]
