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104-year-old South African man has set a new world record for the 100
meter race. Phillip Rabinowitz, from Cape Town, is now officially the
world’s fastest centenarian sprinter, reports the Daily Mirror.
He
finished the 100 meters in 30.86 seconds, knocking more than five
seconds off the previous best. It’s not quite the 9.74 seconds set by
Asafa Powell in 2007 but Phil is 80 years older than the world record
holder.
Phillip said: “I’ve always run and walked everywhere because when I was a kid there weren’t any cars.”
A
taxi driver unwittingly became the getaway driver for a thief who had
just burgled his home. Mr Shen, of Huainan city, picked up the
passenger at a bus stop at around 3am.
“He had a lot of
home appliances, so I helped him put all of his things into the cab,”
he said. “I noticed he had a fish without a tail, and I thought how
much it looked like the fish in my freezer at home. But then I laughed
at myself for even having the thought.”
Mr Shen only
realised the truth when he later returned home to find his house broken
into and his possessions - including the tail-less fish - missing.
Police later arrested a 56-year-old man who faces charges of burglary
and theft.
The most powerful electric eel is found in the rivers of Brazil,
Columbia, Venezuela, and Peru, and produces a shock of 400-650 volts.
A
frog can’t empty its stomach by vomiting. To empty its stomach
contents, a frog throws up it’s stomach first, so the stomach is
dangling out of it’s mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out
all of the stomach’s contents and then swallows the stomach back down
again.
One quarter of the human brain is used to control the eyes.
What you find when you shave the striped fur off of a tiger? Striped skin.
A hedgehog’s heart beats 300 times a minute on average.
On average, a person will spend about five years eating during his or her lifetime.
Just Joking:
Here Is The Good News:
A large
two-engined train was crossing America. After they had gone some
distance, one of the engines broke down. “No problem,” the engineer
thought, and carried on at half power.
Farther on down the
line, the other engine broke down, and the train came to a standstill.
The engineer decided he should inform the passengers about why the
train had stopped, and made the following announcement:
“Ladies
and gentlemen, I have some good news and some bad news. The bad news is
that both engines have failed, and we will be stuck here for some time.
The good news is that you decided to take the train and not fly.”
Easy Money:
A programmer and an engineer
are sitting next to each other on a long flight from Los Angeles to New
York. The programmer leans over to the engineer and asks if he would
like to play a fun game. The engineer just wants to take a nap, so he
politely declines and rolls over to the window to catch a few winks.
The
programmer persists and explains that the game is real easy and is a
lot of fun. He explains “I ask you a question, and if you don’t know
the answer, you pay me $5. Then you ask me a question, and if I don’t
know the answer, I’ll pay you $5.”
Again, the engineer
politely declines and tries to get to sleep. The programmer, now
somewhat agitated, says, “OK, if you don’t know the answer you pay me
$5, and if I don’t know the answer, I’ll pay you $100!” This catches
the engineer’s attention, and he sees no end to this torment unless he
plays, so he agrees to the game.
The programmer asks the first
question. “What’s the distance from the earth to the moon?” The
engineer doesn’t say a word, but reaches into his wallet, pulls out a
five dollar bill and hands it to the programmer.
Now, it’s the engineer’s turn. He asks the programmer “What goes up a hill with three legs, and comes down on four?”
The
programmer looks up at him with a puzzled look. He takes out his laptop
computer and searches all of his references. He taps into the Airphone
with his modem and searches the net and the Library of Congress.
Frustrated, he sends e-mail to his co-workers--all to no avail.
After
about an hour, he wakes the Engineer and hands him $100. The engineer
politely takes the $100 and turns away to try to get back to sleep. The
programmer, more than a little miffed, shakes the engineer and asks
“Well, so what’s the answer?” Without a word, the engineer reaches into
his wallet, hands the programmer $5, and turns away to get back to
sleep.
Watch The Bird:
Mrs. Broomfield’s
dishwasher quit working, so she called a repairman. He couldn’t
accommodate her with an evening appointment, and since she had to go to
work the next day, she told him,
“I’ll leave the key under the
mat. Fix the dishwasher, leave the bill on the counter, and I’ll mail
you the check. By the way, don’t worry about my Rottweiler, Brutus. He
won’t bother you. But, whatever you do, do not under any circumstances
talk to my parrot!”
When the repairman arrived at Mrs.
Broomfield’s apartment the next day, he discovered the biggest and
meanest looking Rottweiler he had ever seen. But, just like she had
said, the dog just lay there on the carpet, watching the repairman go
about his business. However, the whole time he was there, the parrot
drove him nuts with his incessant squawking and talking. Finally the
repairman couldn’t contain himself any longer and yelled: “Shut up, you
stupid bird!”
To which the parrot replied: “Get him, Brutus!”
