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Deep Dive Dubai, the world’s deepest swimming pool for diving, has opened in Dubai, UAE. The pool measures 60 metres (197 feet) deep and holds 14 million litres of water, equivalent to six Olympic-sized swimming pools. The world’s deepest swimming pool for underwater diving has opened in Dubai, where people can descend 60 metres (197 […]
A New York restaurant announced a $200 plate of french fries certified as the world’s most expensive by Guinness World Records will be returning to the eatery for National French Fry Day. Serendipity3 on Manhattan’s Upper East Side earned a Guinness World Record for the world’s most expensive french fries when chefs cooked up Creme de la […]
A former Florida woman was reunited with her dog eight years after the canine went missing. The Lee County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post that Betsy DeHaan adopted a pit bull named Harley from Lee County Domestic Animal Services in Fort Myers in 2013, and the dog disappeared about a year later. We searched and […]
A Maryland woman who received six scratch-off lottery tickets as a gift from a friend ended up winning a $30,000 prize from one of the games. The 38-year-old Aberdeen, Harford County, woman told Maryland Lottery officials she received a stack of scratch-off tickets as a gift from a good friend and one of the tickets, a $3 Diamond […]
An Idaho man broke a Guinness World Record by using his hands to snap 83 matches in 30 seconds. David Rush, who has broken nearly 250 Guinness World Records to promote STEM education, said he worked to refine his technique after setting the one-minute version of the same record at 91 matches in 2019. I […]
Bone up on cell phone etiquette and do your part to make our society less annoying. Keep your volume down, don’t use speakerphone in public, and be self-aware. We all know the situation: being subjected to someone else’s conversation while in a public space. Speaking on a cell phone makes some of us forget our […]
A Boston woman who has been working on planes for 65 years was named the world’s longest-serving flight attendant by Guinness World Records. Bette Nash, 86, started working as a flight attendant in 1957 for Eastern Airlines and continues to this day at American Airlines without any lapse in employment, Guinness World Records confirmed. Nash […]
There’s been a strong movement to reduce the amount of meat in our diet, but many of us are loathe to do so without some form of replacement. Forget the concern of flavor, a sufficient amount of protein is really difficult to get from an all vegetable product diet. That’s where the Jackfruit comes in, […]
Help the fight against plastic pollution by eliminating those thin, filmy plastic bags. Try bringing reusable bags to the store, and forego bags for small purchases. Most of us use them every day, the thin plastic bags used by almost every retailer we visit. Whether we’re shopping for groceries or the newest Prada, you can […]
Social Media Day was launched by the popular website Mashable back in 2010, and often sees fans of the site going to real-life meetups. Social media seems to be everywhere these days. Though the days of social media pioneer Myspace are now long gone, we’re constantly hearing about trending topics on Twitter, laughing at social […]
