26Isle Royale
Lake Superior has an island which has a lake which has an island which has a pond which has a boulder, which, when the pond floods, becomes the largest island in the largest lake on the largest island in the largest lake on the largest island in the largest lake in the world.
27. The deadliest animal on earth is the mosquito. They have more deaths attached to them every year than any other animal in the world.
28. The world's largest book was lost by the city of Cleveland. It was called The Golden Book of Cleveland and it was as large as a mattress. It was misplaced in 1936.
29. The loudest plane ever built was the XF-84H Thunderstreak. At idle power, the propeller would create continuous sonic booms that emitted visible shock waves. Anyone nearby, regardless of ear protection, suffered severe nausea, headaches, and it even caused one man to have a seizure.
30. Tsar Bomba (most powerful explosive ever detonated by mankind; 4000 times Hiroshima; 59 miles high mushroom cloud, which is 10 times the height of Mount Everest) was dropped with a parachute so that the release plane could fly 28 miles away, giving the crew a 50% chance of survival.
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31Anechoic chambers
The anechoic chambers are the quietest places on Earth and have background noises measured in negative decibels. After a few minutes in chambers, you can hear your heartbeat and blood circulating in your ears and could experience troubles with orienting or even standing.
32. The longest marriage on record ended in 2016 when Karam Chand died in England. He and his wife had been married for 90 years.
33. Russians tried to dig a hole through to the Earth’s crust in the 1970s. They reached 40,318 feet deep before they stopped. For two decades it was also the world's longest borehole in terms of measured depth. They stopped due to higher-than-expected temperatures of 356 degree Fahrenheit making the project infeasible.
34. The largest movement of physical wealth in history was during World War 2. Operation Fish had 186,332 gold bars and more than 8 million ounces of gold coins sent to Canada from the UK with not even one crate or treasury bill going missing.
35. Amou Haji is considered the “world's dirtiest man.” He hasn't bathed in over 60 years, eats the rotten meat of dead animals, lives in a hole, and uses animal poop to smoke from his pipe.
