World's Oldest Twins Dies Within Weeks of each Other at 103

It is unbelievable to be identical even at 103 years. After living most of their lives together, Gleyns Thomas and Florence Davies, reportedly the world's oldest twin sisters, passed away within weeks of each other.

Thomas died on April 23, according to The Telegraph, and her heartbroken sister passed away less than a month later on May 20.

The twins were born in 1911 in Wales.

For most of their lives, they were nearly inseparable, even sharing a room until one of them got married. In their final days, the sisters were living at the Abermill Care Home in Caerphilly, Wales in adjoining rooms.

The sisters were thought to be the oldest living twins in the UK and perhaps even the world, though Guinness World Records say the record for oldest female living twins has been unassigned since July 2014.

They are survived by a total of five children, 12 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren. Relatives attributed the sisters' longevity to a simple life enjoyed within a tight-knit family and community.

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Meet The Oldest Man In Human History Whom Death Has Forgotten

Meet Mahastra Mûras, the man who has outlived all his grandchildren and proved he was born in 1835.He is an Indian who is not only the oldest man in the world but also the man who lived the longest since the history of mankind (according to the Guinness World Records ).

According to the information transmitted, the man was born in Bangalore on January 6 1835. In 1903, he lived in Varanasi, where he worked until 1957, until his retirement in 122 years.According to WorldNewsDailyReport.com all official documents to identify this man support his version

My grandchildren have died there a few years, “said Mûrasi.” In a way, death has forgotten me. And now I have lost all hope to die!

When his prayer point is to find death, you can only join him in prayers.

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New Guinness record! Chinese Billionaire Takes 6,400 Staff on Holiday to Paris [Photos]

For some billionaires who have run out of ways to spend their money wisely, here is a clue. A Chinese billionaire has taken 6,400 of his staff on a four day holiday to France which finished with a world-record breaking human chain in the Cote D'Azur.

Tiens Group Company Chairman, Li Jinyuan booked up 140 hotels for their stay in Paris before the huge group of tourists then made their way to the glamorous Cote D'Azur, where Li Jinyuan booked 4,760 rooms in 79 four-and five-star hotels in Cannes and Monaco.

DailyMail reports that it took 147 buses to take the tourists from their hotels to the Promenade des
Anglais in Nice, where Guinness World Record officials where on hand to validate the world's biggest ever human chain. The 6,400 employees had arranged themselves to form the largest ever human chain which spelt out the phrase 'Tiens' dream is Nice''

Li Jinyuan, 57, is listed as a billionaire on the Forbes rich list and took more than half of his staff to the region to celebrate the 20-year anniversary of the founding of the company. France is expected to be 33million Euros better off thanks to the all-expenses-paid staff trip.
This is definitely how to treat your staff. Who wouldn't want to work here. 

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Photos: Meet the World’s Tallest Woman: Where are the Men?

For men who think they can stand up to face any woman, meeting Yao Defen might have them giving this idea a second thought.

Standing at 7 ft 8 (2.33 m) tall, Chinese-born Defen is the tallest living woman, as recognized by Guinness World Records. Born on July 15, 1972 and weighing 200 kilograms (440 lb), the size of her feet is 26 (UK) / 78 (EU).

Her gigantism is said to be due to a tumor in her pituitary gland. She was six feet nine inches tall by the age of fifteen years. Due to her condition, Defen has undergone series of surgeries. Yao currently suffers from hypertension, heart disease, poor nutrition, and osteoporosis.

Acromegaly often results from a tumor within the pituitary gland that causes excess growth hormone secretion. As a result, the body’s features become enlarged. It can also delay the onset of puberty as is the case with Yao. She has no secondary sexual characteristics. Potential complication lacking surgery includes blindness and eventually premature death. She lives near her mother (who is only four feet, eight inches tall) in a small village in rural China.

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World’s Most Modified Man, ‘Tiger Man’ Found Dead

The worlds most modified man, 54 year-old Dennis Avner was discovered dead at his Tonopah home in Nevada. Avner was deemed the worlds most modified human by the Guinness Book of World Records back in 2008.

He said after speaking with a native American chief he became inspired to ‘follow the ways of the tiger.’ He held the record for the most permanent transformations to look like an animal.

He underwent 14 surgical procedures to transform his face, ears and teeth into feline features.The computer technician by trade, and former Navy Veteran made himself look like a female cat, with whiskers and ears to a mechanical tail.

The cause of death has not yet been revealed, but some are speculating that Avner may have killed himself.

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Brit Mugly Is Crowned The World's Ugliest Dog(PHOTOS)

 

 A hairless British dog called Mugly has won the title of ugliest dog in the world, in a competition held in the United States. 

 Bald, apart from an eyebrow and some wayward white whiskers, the Chinese Crested pooch from Peterborough won $1,000 (£640) and a year's worth of dog biscuits. 

The pointy nosed pooch was whisked away in a limousine with his owner Bev Nicholson, 49, for a VIP stay at the Sheraton in Petaluma, California, and a photo shoot. 

"I couldn't speak when they announced Mugly's name," said Ms Nicholson. "I didn't know which way to look. I was shaking as much as the dog."

 Dressed in a glittery blue top hat and a black velvet Union Jack coat, eight-year-old Mugly beat 28 other ugly dogs to scoop the prize.

 Ms Nicholson told her local paper the Peterborough Telegraph that Mugly is beautiful on the inside.

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The Earth most quiet place-longest anyone can stay is 45 minutes

They say silence is golden – but there’s a room in the U.S that’s so quiet it becomes unbearable after a short time. The longest that anyone has survived in the ‘anechoic chamber’ at Orfield Laboratories in South Minneapolis is just 45 minutes. It’s 99.99 per cent sound absorbent and holds the Guinness World Record for the world’s quietest place, but stay there too long and you may start hallucinating. 

It achieves its ultra-quietness by virtue of 3.3-foot-thick fiberglass acoustic wedges, double walls of insulated steel and foot-thick concrete. The company’s founder and president, Steven Orfield, told MailOnline: ‘We challenge people to sit in the chamber in the dark - one reporter stayed in there for 45 minutes. ‘When it’s quiet, ears will adapt. The quieter the room, the more things you hear. You'll hear your heart beating, sometimes you can hear your lungs, hear your stomach gurgling loudly. ‘In the anechoic chamber, you become the sound.’

And this is a very disorientating experience. Mr Orfield explained that it’s so disconcerting that sitting down is a must. He said: ‘How you orient yourself is through sounds you hear when you walk. In the anechnoic chamber, you don't have any cues. You take away the perceptual cues that allow you to balance and manoeuvre. If you're in there for half an hour, you have to be in a chair.’

The chamber is used by companies all over America – including Nasa, which puts their astronauts to the test in there, floating in a water-filled container, to see ‘how long it takes before hallucinations take place and whether they could work through it’. As Mr Orfield explains, space is like one giant anechoic chamber, so it’s crucial that astronauts are able to stay focussed.

The chamber is also used by a multitude of manufacturers, which test how loud their products are. Mr Orfield said: ‘It's used for formal product testing, for research into the sound of different things - heart valves, the sound of the display of a cellphone, the sound of a switch on a car dashboard.’ It’s also put to use to determine sound quality. Mr Orfield and his team will help companies such as washing-machine maker Whirlpool develop metaphors for what sound should, well, sound like.

 Motorbike maker Harley-Davidson used the lab, for instance, to make their bikes quieter, while still sounding like Harley-Davidsons. ‘We record products and people listen to them based on semantic terms, like “expensive”, “low quality”, said Mr Orfield. ‘We measure their feelings and associations.’ Mr Orfield admits that he can last a very respectable 30 minutes in the chamber, despite having an off-putting mechanical heart valve that suddenly becomes very loud indeed once he's inside.

Source:Dailymail

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