A total of 1,010 bikini-clad women have made history at Bondi Beach, Australia, where they set a world record by posing in the largest swimsuit photo shoot ever.
The shoot will appear in the January issue of Cosmopolitan, and will also feature in the next edition of the Guinness World Records book, out in September 2008. [News]
70-year-old Cathie Jung has the smallest waist in the world, which measures just 15in (38cm).
The resident from Connecticut, USA, has been wearing tight fitting corset since 1983. She holds the Guinness World Records for “Smallest Waist on a Living Person” since 1999.
Stuart and Karla, a couple from Bedfordshire, are attempting to stand on top of every munro naked. A munro is a Scottish mountain over 3,000 feet (914 metres).
Visit their website for more info on their unconventional adventure… nudity expected.
[Nakedmunros, via Metro]
The 174th Oktoberfest beer festival opens in Munich on September 22, 2007. Millions of beer drinkers from around the world will come to the Bavarian capital Munich for the world’s biggest and most famous beer festival which will last until October 7, 2007.
The Oktoberfest is a two-week festival held each year in Munich, Bavaria, Germany during late September and early October. The festival is held on an area named the Theresienwiese, and is one of the most famous events in the city and the world’s largest fair, with some six million people attending every year.
Scientist have announced a skin-patch vaccine that can save the wearer from the rumblings of diarrhoea when travelling to places where stomach bugs are endemic.
A clinical trial by Maryland-based vaccine maker Iomai Corporation showed that of 59 people who used the patch - which slaps on the skin to deliver the vaccine without a needle - only three found their guts growling with diarrhoea.
Comparing this to results from travellers who were given a placebo, the test showed that the patch cut outbreaks of diarrhoea by three-quarters.
“These are clinically significant results that suggest that the patch vaccine will address the most significant unmet need for travel medicine: prophylaxis for travellers’ diarrhoea,” said Gregory Glenn, the company’s chief scientific office. [News]
Hundreds of people have suffered headaches, nausea, and respiratory problems after a meteorite crashed in southern Peru. The meteorite landed in Carangas, Puno, southern Peru last weekend (Sep 16) and created a crater 65ft wide and 20ft deep.
Jorge Lopez, director of the health department in the southern state of Puno, said at least 200 people had become ill after inhaling “toxic” fumes emanating from the resulting crater; but a team of doctors who reached the isolated site said they found no evidence the meteorite had caused sickness.
Modesto Montoya, a member of the medical team, told El Comercio that fear may have provoked psychosomatic ailments.
“When a meteorite falls, it produces horrid sounds when it makes contact with the atmosphere,” he said. “It is as if a giant rock is being sanded. Those sounds could have frightened them.” [Telegraph]
A gigantic pink spiny lobsters was caught by the fishing boat ‘Brittania’ around 200 miles south west of Newlyn, Cornwall, England.
Named “Poseidon”, the giant lobster measures two feet in length and a whopping nine-and a-quarter pounds. It is around five times the size of the average lobster.
Spiny lobsters don’t usually occur in British waters, but is usually found off the west coast of Africa and in the Mediterranean. It grows much bigger than its cousin and can survive at depths of up to 600 metres.
Poseidon will be kept in the Blue Reef Aquarium in Newquay; experts are now consulting record books to see if Poseidon is the biggest one ever landed in Britain.
A California college has recently begun what may be the first academic course about watching YouTube (the most popular video sharing site in the world).
About 35 Pitzer College students meet in a classroom, but work mostly online, where they view YouTube content and post their comments. Class lessons also are posted and students are encouraged to post videos. [Metro]
Honestly, a 12-year-old kid can do that; they don’t need to teach it in college.
