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Make a Splash in the World's Largest Swimming Pool
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Make a Splash in the World's Largest Swimming Pool
Last updated at 20:38pm on 22nd January 2008
If you like doing laps in the swimming pool, you might want to stock up on the energy drinks before diving in to this one.
It is more than 1,000 yards long, covers 20 acres, had a 115ft deep end and holds 66 million gallons of water.
Hungry? How about a 134-lb. Burger for $350?
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5 Iconic Cosmetics
In 1968, Mary Kay Ash walked into a Dallas Cadillac dealership. Five years earlier, at the age of 45, she had started Beauty by Mary Kay with just $5,000 in savings. By the time Ash walked into that dealership, the company had already hit the $1 million sales mark, thanks to the female sales representatives who sold cosmetics.
Gisele Bόndchen (Biography)
Gisele Caroline Bόndchen (born July 20, 1980) is a Brazilian model and occasional actress. According to Forbes, she is the highest-paid model in the world and also the sixteenth richest woman in the entertainment world,having earned $33 million in 2007 and $35 million in 2008 alone, adding to her estimated $150 million fortune. She is also listed on Guinness Book of World Records as the world`s richest supermodel.
22-inch Nepal man: I'm the world's shortest
KATMANDU, Nepal - Now that he's all grown up, 18-year-old Khagendra Thapa Magar of Nepal wants the world to know just how tiny he is.
Magar, who stands 22 inches tall, has been waiting four years for his chance to take the title of the world's shortest person.
On Thursday, a day after his birthday and becoming an adult, supporters mailed an application package to Guinness World Record in London seeking to stake his place in the record book.
Palestinians in Kite Record Bid
Palestinian children turned out in big numbers on a beach in the northern Gaza Strip in an attempt to break the world record for kite flying. More than 6,000 children gathered to fly more than 3,000 kites, according to the United Nations, which organised it. The previous record was set in Germany last year - when the Guinness Book of World Records says 967 kites took to the sky simultaneously.Tallest US man is 7-foot-8 Va. deputy
NORFOLK, Va. - To all those people who blurt out "Wow, you're tall!" as they stare up at George Bell: He knows.Guinness Longest Legs Meet World’s Shortest Man
Svetlana Pankratova currently holds the Guinness World Record for the woman with the longest legs. She recently met China’s He Pingping. According to the Guinness Book of Records, He Pingping is the world’s shortest man.
Kissing Contest
Record: 42 kisses in 30 seconds ------------- LONDON - A British woman set a world record by kissing 42 men within a 30-second time limit with a Guinness Book of Records official as her witness. Ruth Reynolds, 24, performed the feat, which topped the previous record of 36 kisses inside of a minute, with official adjudicator Karolina Thelin and Guinness Book of Records editor-in- chief Craig Glenday on hand, The Sun reported. "I was quietly confident I would break the record -- but I'm delighted that I broke it by so much," Reynolds said.Mystery of the ‘Land of Twins’
Something in the Water? Mengele? Published: February 22, 2009 CÂNDIDO GODÓI, Brazil — High atop a hill behind his family’s home, Derli Grimm knelt and took a sip from a thin black tube leading from a natural spring.
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