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IBM has made the world’s smallest movie by moving dozens of atoms…
The feat has been verified by Guinness World Records as The World’s Smallest Stop-Motion Film. Below is a video and infographic (click for full size) showing how it’s done. You can check IBM’s project page if you can’t get enough of the details.
Old video showing the long queue on the opening day (Jan 31, 1990) of the first – and back then the world’s largest – McDonald’s restaurant in former Soviet Union…
The restaurant was operated by McDonald’s Canada instead of the American HQ, probably to avoid the sensitivity issue as the Cold War has just ended.
McDonald’s also opened its first outlet in mainland China in October the same year.
New Zealand golfer Lydia Ko sets another record as the youngest winner (15 yrs 4 mths) in history of the LPGA Tour after winning the Canadian Open over the weekend, breaking the record of American Lexi Thompson (16 yrs 7 mths).
The Korean-born became the youngest winner of a professional event earlier this year (broken later by Canadian Brooke Henderson), and she’s making another phenomenal leap with this achievement. She’s yet to turn pro though, and according to statement she’s likely to stay amateur until she finishes her high school.
3110 students from Nanjing Agricultural University in China’s Jiangsu Province has set a new world record on April 27 for the biggest human-made smiley face…
Time lapse video of Tokyo Sky Tree by Darwinfish105 [Jp]. The construction of the tower – the world’s tallest (634m) – was completed on February 29.
The definition of “tower” differs from “building”, with the later mainly habitable. For many years the world’s tallest tower is taller than the tallest building, but it changed in 2010 with the completion of Burj Khalifa (830m) in the United Arab of Emirates.
72-year-old Chandra Bahadur Dangi from Nepal has broken the record for the world’s shortest man. At 54.6cm he’s also the shortest person ever measured…
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