Archive for the 'Nature' Category

The deepest hole in the world

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

The gaint hole is actually a diamond mine in Eastern Siberia near the town Mirna.  It is 525 meters deep and 1.25 km in the diameter.
The giant hole produces great suction so all flights above the hole are prohibited.

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Largest tree transplanted

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

Quote from guinness book of records:
The largest tree to be transplanted was an oak tree (Quercus lobata), aged between 180-220 years and measuring 17.67 m (58 ft) tall, 31.6 m (104 ft) wide (branch-span), weighing approximately 415.5 tonnes (916,000 lb) and with a trunk girth of 5 m (16 ft 2 in). "Old Glory" was [...]

Biggest pumpkin

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

For just a moment, Bill Rodonis, of Litchfield, N.H., held the title with a 1,566-pound pumpkin. Then Joe Jutras, of Scituate, R.I., crushed it with a pumpkin weighing 1,689 pounds. Both men beat last year's record of 1,502 pounds, but only Jutras will make it in the Guinness Book of Records.

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Biggest and heaviest lemon ever grown

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

The world's heaviest lemon weighed 5.265 kg (11 lb 9.7 oz) on January 8, 2003 and was grown by Aharon Shemoel from Israel on his farm in Kefar Zeitim.
You can make a lots of lemonade with this lemon.

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The heaviest apple

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

The heaviest apple weighed 1.849 kg (4 lb 1 oz) and was grown and picked by Chisato Iwasaki at his apple farm in Hirosaki City, Japan October 24, 2005.

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The biggest tree in the world

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

General Sherman is the name of a Giant Sequoia. It is one of the tallest Giant Sequoia trees in the world with a height of about 275 feet (83.8 metres). As of 2002, the volume of its trunk measured about 1487 cubic meters, making it the largest non-clonal organism by volume. The tree is located [...]