7 Giants
General Motors developed the Titan in response to the need for more efficient haul trucks by open pit mine operators. GM believed that a general decrease in mineral ore quality combined with a projected need to mine tar shale and tar sands would increase the quantity of ore hauled by surface mine operators' trucks, worldwide. The Titan was the largest in the Terex 33 series of off-road haul trucks
The team at living laboratories recently harvested this lemon weighing in at a whopping 15.05 pounds, a record for the experimental greenhouses. And, a second lemon harvested from the very same tree weighed 12 pounds.
While they certainly outdistanced their descriptive name, these two lemons quickly became citrus celebrities at The Land. In the photo above, Dani, one of the Plant Science interns in charge of the greenhouse where the lemons grow, holds the 15+-pounder in one hand and a “normal-sized” lemon in the other.
In fact, these two lemons even outweighed the “World’s Heaviest Lemon” currently listed on the Guinness World Records website. That pucker-producer, grown in 2003 on a farm in Kefar Zeitim, Israel, weighed in at 11 pounds, 9.7 ounces, which still stands as the official record.
An artist created a giant mural across 50 buildings in Cairo without the government noticing
Amid Cairo's brick buildings and heaping piles of trash is a sprawling work of art, which, at first, looks messy and incoherent.
But when you stand on the nearby hillside and read the spray-painted Arabic "calligraffiti," as its creator Tunisian-French artist eL Seed calls it, the message reads loud and clear: "If one wants to see the light of the sun, he must wipe his eyes."
The quote represents the importance of withholding judgment of people just because of their circumstances, says eL Seed, who first visited the community a few years ago. He's called the piece "Perception" for just that reason, hoping to get people to see past the area's physical appearance.
The entire piece took three weeks to complete, and eL Seed says it was done in total secrecy from the Egyptian government due to the country's strict laws forbidding artistic expression.
With a name like Hercules, you know he's got to be big.
At 922 pounds, big is an understatement for the world's largest living cat, according to the 2014 Guinness Book of World Records.
Hercules is a liger -- the hybrid offspring of a male lion and a tigress -- who lives at the Myrtle Beach Safari wildlife preserve in South Carolina. He is 131 inches long, and measures 49 inches tall at the shoulder.
Workers from 45 restaurants in Mexico City prepared a 48m (161ft)-long Mexican sandwich in what has become an annual event.
As the finishing touches were put to the ''torta,'' the compere rounded up with "time's up gentlemen, big applause".
Saman is a wide-canopied tree with a large symmetrical crown. It usually reaches a height of 25 m (82 ft) and a diameter of 40 m. The leaves fold in rainy weather and in the evening, hence the name "rain tree" and "five o'clock tree" (Pukul Lima) in Malay. Several lineages of this tree are available, e.g., with reddish pink and creamish golden colored flowers.
A giant specimen near Kanchanaburi, Thailand, known locally as chamchuri-yak (จามจุรียักษ์). "Chamchuri" is the Thai name of the tree species, whereas "yak" is the Thai pronunciation of yaksha, a mythical demon, referring in this context to the monstrous size of the tree.
During his 1799–1804 travels in the Americas, Alexander von Humboldt encountered a giant saman tree near Maracay, Venezuela. He measured the circumference of the parasol-shaped crown at 576 ft
A gigantic tadpole, discovered by biologists in a pond in Arizona, christened ‘Goliath’.
This believed to be the largest bullfrog tadpole ever recorded.
While netting a mostly drained pond, American Museum of Natural History’s Southwestern Research Station (SWRS) volunteer Alina Downer felt something large bump into her legs as it swam through the knee-deep mud,’ explained herpetologist Earyn McGee.
‘At first, she thought it was a fish but when she reached down she was surprised to see a very large bullfrog tadpole. The team named him Goliath.’