People will do nearly anything to enter the Guinness World Book of Records and it is said to be a huge honour, but this is very untrue if the title you obtain is ‘The World’s Fattest Man’. And no one knows more about this than Manuel Uribe the Mexican man who weighed more than half a tonne is now on the road to changing his life after his wife left him and he decided to overcome his sick addiction to fast food! The good news is Manuel has lost 518 pounds in 2 years and whilst he is still heavy he is moving steadily along and shedding the pounds thanks to a strict diet consisting of mainly grapefruits, egg-white only omelettes, fish, chicken, vegetables and peanuts.

This is not a photo shopped photo! This is real!
This tiny frog is called a leaf frog and lives in The Solomon Islands and the wet marshes of Papua New Guinea.
When this frog hatches, it skips the tadpole phase and emerges from the egg a tiny little frog, called a froglet! Isn't that just cute?!

Another photo of the frog, showing exactly how small it it, after the jump ...

Are you one of the people who are fascinated by LEGO blocks? Then maybe you know about Sean Kenney. This mans is one of the five people in the world who are given the title LEGO Certified Professional because of the quality of his craft and his professionalism. Because of his achievements, Sean Kenney is really one of the most talented men in the LEGO business. His ingenuity earned him a good reputation that is why his firm, Sean Kenney Design Company, is continuously commissioned to develop excellent sculptures, events, and models for museums, galleries, YV, toy stores, magazines and a lot more.

A scary thing happened in a small town in Texas a couple of days ago; a sinkhole appeared in the ground and swallowed everything above it!
The sinkhole, which is a hole formed in the ground when the surface of the ground collapses, started on Wednesday when the soil started to sink in and managed to swallow up anything in it's way!
Until today, it's grown into a huge crater (183m X 46m) and has swallowed oil tanks and barrels, tires, telephone poles and several vehicles. Today, it has closed in on the surrounding houses around it!
Residents of Daisetta watched as trees and cars that were close to the mouth of the crater tumbled in!

Throughout the years, we’ve come across many cases of babies being born with strange abnormalities.
Last year, a baby in India was born with eight limbs; four arms and four legs! She was worshiped as the incarnation of the Hindu Goddess Lakshmi! She is actually named after her!
Well, a few days ago and in India as well, another baby was born with a very rare and strange abnormality; she’s got one head and two faces!
The little girl, called Lali, has two complete faces; four eyes, two noses and two mouths. She’s just got two ears, one on each side of her head. Lali is also being worshiped now as the incarnation of the Hindu Goddess Durga.

Birds are beautiful creatures and part of their beauty is in their feather-covered body. But what happens if a bird looses its feathers? Does it become ugly?
Well, I don't think so! I came across a video of a bird named Oscar, and she's got no feathers on her body, only a few on her head ... but she's beautiful in her own unique way.
Oscar is a Cockatoo who suffers from a rare virus that causes her to pull out her feathers whenever they start growing because they irritate her.

This world is full of weird and amazing stories ... and sometimes you would think that animals are more compassionate than humans ... especially nowadays!
The strangest incident happened in a small village outside the Jordanian capital, Amman, when a cat took unusual interest in 5 chicks!
A hen had been chased and killed by a dog ... this hen, had 5 small chicks ... who will care of them after the mother hen has died?
A cat took interest in these orphaned chicks and started caring for them, putting them under her arms and keeping them warm!
This same cat, gave birth to three little kittens a couple of weeks later and is now caring for her kittens and the 5 chicks!
At first the cat's owner, wanted to take the chicks away from her because he thought it was going to eat them, but was astonished when he saw her taking care of them!

I’ve never been to Texas but I must say that the things I read about this state sound really interesting. Aside from the good ol’ cowboys and rodeo, this place spouts inventions that will really make you say “wow that’s amazing”! Previously, Texas amazed the people with their 57-foot long barbecue train, the Dragon BBQ grills, train-like grill trailer, PS3 Grill, Chevy V8 grill and the classic Holden Monaro GTS grill. This is already quite a list they have. But despite that list, Texas is not content yet because a new addition to these is the massive Pistol barbecue grill. No kidding about its size of 19 feet long. Within this length lie the two grills. The first one measures 36” x 60” and the second one 12” x 36”.

I don't like to think of ordinary scorpions, the normal sized ones in the desert, they give me the chills!
How about a scorpion that's bigger than me! Aaaahhh!!!
Thank God those don't exist in our time, but it seems they did a few hundrer million years ago.
Paleontologists discovered a giant fossilized claw in Germany, that once belonged to an 2.5 meter long sea scorpion.
It's approximately 400 million years old!
The paleontologists say: "We have known for some time that the fossil record yields monster millipedes, super-sized scorpions, colossal cockroaches, and jumbo dragonflies. But we never realized until now just how big some of these ancient creepy-crawlies were".
Eurypterids, or ancient sea scorpions, are believed to be the extinct aquatic ancestors of today's scorpions and possibly all arachnids, a class of joint-legged, invertebrate animals, including spiders, scorpions, mites and ticks.

This photo is NOT photo-shopped! It's a real pic and the woman in it is the woman with the world's smallest waist! She's even in the Guinness Book of World Records!
Pensioner Cathie Jung, who is 70 year old, has a tiny waist which measures just 38 cm!
I wonder, where are her internal organs? How can all the things fit in there?

Source: Daily Mail

I’m not particularly fond of soft drinks; I only drink some if it’s really hot or if a friend treats me to one. It would be ungracious of me to refuse it right? To soft drinks drinkers, the usual problem for them is that their drink warms up real fast that it becomes unpalatable, even more so when ice is added to keep it cold. But it seems Coca Cola has come up with the perfect solution to this predicament. I’m not sure how they did it but they have developed a bottle that keeps the contents cold even after the cap has been twisted off. There is a device in the bottle that solidifies or makes into ice some of the drink. I think that is ingenious in itself and quite interesting!

If you think about it, a lot of the disputes and troubles happening all around us are the result of differences, in culture, views and many other factors. Sometimes I can’t help but think if all people would just learn to get along it would be a better place to live in… I’m sure you’ll agree with me, or maybe not. But if animals can do it maybe humans can do it too. Just take a lesson from this little monkey and a pigeon. These two make an adorable image as you can see. This unusual friendship happened in an animal sanctuary in China.

This biggest carpet in the world for sure won’t fit into your living room. Iran unveiled the hand-woven carpet that measures 5,625 square meters (60,546 square feet), which is about, or more than the size of a soccer field! Wow, this really took some hard work involving 1,200 weavers in three villages in the northeast. Want to know the duration? Well, it took one year and a half to finish the pieces. Said carpet will be delivered to UAE where a new mosque is being constructed.

Did you know that Indian Ink doesn't come from India? It comes from China & Egypt!
A pencil doesn't contain lead! It has Graphite!
The silk worm, although called a worm, is the larva or caterpillar of the silk moth.
The Panda isn't a bear! It's from the Raccon family!
A banana tree, is in fact a herb!
Cucumbers & Tomatoes are not vegetables ... they are fruits!
A Turkish bath isn't really Turkish, it's Roman!
A Koala bear isn't a bear! It's a marsupial!