Tennis anyone? Sky is the limit

In February 2005, tennis pros Roger Federico and Andre Agassi were in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, for the ATP's Dubai Duty Free Men's Open, a$1 million International Series Gold event. While in town, they took part in publicity stunt, engaging in a friendly exhibition tennis match on the grass helipad atop the luxurious Burr Al Arab hotel.  The Burr Al...

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Black and White Twins

A mixed-race British mom, Kyle Hodgson, gave birth in 2005 to twins, one of each. No, not a boy and a girl. Two girls — one black, the other white. The odds of such a birth are about a million to one, experts said. Although occurrences of this nature sometimes occur when a woman conceives twins fathered by two different men, this was a much rarer case in which a single...

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Suicidal Bear Reconsiders

On 15 September 2007, a 250-pound bear wandered onto Rainbow Bridge on Old Highway 40 near Donner Summit in the Lake Tahoe, California, area of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Apparently frightened by approaching automobile traffic, the large bruin went over the railing, then caught a ledge and pulled itself onto a concrete girder beneath the 80-foot-high bridge.  Animal...

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Bizarre Illegal Immigration techniques

Plenty of inventive (and desperate) people have come up with a number of imaginative schemes for sneaking themselves and others across national borders.  On 2003, Illegal immigrants from India and Pakistan being smuggled from mainland China to Hong Kong were found inside suitcases).  On 2001, a 135-lb. woman was hidden behind the dashboard of a car. The "passenger" might...

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Smallest Works of Art on Earth

Willard Wigan was born in Birmingham, England in 1957 and is the creator of the smallest works of art on earth. From being a traumatised and unrecognised dyslexic child, he is now emerging as the most globally celebrated micro-miniaturist of all time and is literally capable of turning a spec of dust into a vision of true beauty. Willard can create a masterpiece within the eye of a tiny sewing needle,...

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Arthur Mole's Extraordinary Mass Photography

Almost a century ago and without the aid of any pixel-generating computer software, the itinerant photographer Arthur Mole (1889-1983) used his 11 x 14-inch view camera to stage a series of extraordinary mass photographic spectacles that choreographed living bodies into symbolic formations of religious and national community. In these mass ornaments, thousands of military troops and...

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Please ignore our other... um... crashed airliner

The cabin announces: "Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for choosing to fly with Mandarin Airlines. As we taxi out to the runway please make yourself comfortable... and for those of you sitting on the right side of the plane... pelase ignore our other... um... airliner."  On August 22, 1999, Mandarin Airlines Flight 642 from Bangkok to Hong Kong crashed upon landing....

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Now that must be a one happy groom...

The bride's name is Anna Atamanchuk, a professional belly dancer in St.Petersburg, Russia....

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World's Drunkest House: 70,000 Beer Cans

When property manager Ryan Froerer got a call from a realtor to check on a townhouse, he knew something was up. "It was the sickest thing I've ever seen. Just unimaginable that someone could live in that." He couldn't even open the front door. It was blocked from inside. As he finally entered the house, he found about 70,000 empty beer cans.  Inside, he took just a few snapshots to document the...

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Saving space in your fridge: Square Watermelons!

For years consumers struggled to fit the large round fruit in theirrefrigerators. And then there was the problem of trying to cut the fruit when it kept rolling around.  But 20 years ago a forward-thinking farmer on Japan's south-western island of Shikoku solved the problem. The farmer, from Zentsuji in Kagawa prefecture, came up with the idea of making a cube-shaped watermelon which could easily...

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10 Most Bizarre Zoo Signs

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7 Most Amazing Caves of our World

Eisriesenwelt Ice Caves (Austria): largest Ice Caves known to man  There are many ice caves throughout the world, but the Eisriesenwelt Ice Caves in Austria are some of the largest known to man. They are located within the Tennengebirge Mountains near Salzburg and stretch for a remarkable 40 kilometers. Only a portion of the labyrinth is open to tourists but it's enough to get...

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World's Most Creative Buildings

The Crooked House (Poland)  Polish architect of the Crooked House, Szotynscy Zaleski, was inspired by the fairytale illustrations of Jan Marcin Szancer and the drawings of the Swedish artist and Sopot resident Per Dahlberg. The most photographed building in Poland, the 4,000 square meter house is located in Rezydent shopping center in Sopot, Poland.  The Dancing House (Czech...

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