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Amazing Facts. By Rory Ledden And Yi-jan Lim With help from Jamie. Eye Popper!!!. Kim Goodman (USA) can pop her eyeballs to a protrusion of 12 mm (0.47 in) beyond her eye sockets. Her eyes were measured in Istanbul, Turkey, on November 2, 2007. By Gum!!!.
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Amazing Facts By Rory Ledden And Yi-jan Lim With help from Jamie
Eye Popper!!! • Kim Goodman (USA) can pop her eyeballs to a protrusion of 12 mm (0.47 in) beyond her eye sockets. Her eyes were measured in Istanbul, Turkey, on November 2, 2007.
By Gum!!! Artist Franz Spohn made Barack Obama from thousands of gumballs, the artist, along with a bunch of kids from Ohio said, “Yes, we can!” Spohn recruited dozens of volunteers to help create the portrait as part of the Martin Luther King Day celebration on January 19 at the King Kennedy Center in Ravenna, Ohio. After one hour and many sticky fingers, a one-of-a-kind work of art was born.
Pink Dolphin Have you ever seen a pink dolphin? Me either...but Believe It or Not!, here it is! Charter boat captain Erik Rue, 42, captured this image after the mammal first surfaced in Lake Calcasieu, an inland saltwater estuary, north of the Gulf of Mexico in southwestern USA. He said: "I just happened to see a little pod of dolphins, and I noticed one that was a little lighter. "It was absolutely stunningly pink.” It is actually an albino dolphin. A close relation of dolphins, the Amazon River Botos, called pink dolphins, live in South America in the Amazon. Funny Facts
Weird Skunk!!!! • The Israeli police force has devised a new, organic, non-lethal weapon to use against protestors. Skunk is a new substance the police will shoot from a water cannon. The result is a rancid odour of rotting meat, dirty socks and sewage that lingers on the skin for about three days. Police stress that it’s completely harmless if ingested. They hope to soon sell it to police forces overseas .
Lego Men This is a sculpture made by artist Nathan Sawaya.He made it for a couple getting married.The cost of the lego sculpture is 60,000 dollars each.
Facts You Didn’t know • The first McDonald's restaurant opened for business in 1952 in Edinburgh, Scotland • Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting. • Approximately one-sixth of your life is spent on Wednesdays. • At the first World Cup championship in Uruguay, 1930, the soccer balls were actually monkey skulls wrapped in paper and leather.
Did You Know? • A giraffe has the same amount of bones in their neck as you and I!!!7 • The heaviest pumpkin recorded weighed in at 1,469 pounds. • The first person to break the sound barrier was pilot Chuck Yeager.He flew faster than sound.