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The Man with the world's largest hand is called Hua Liu and
shall be submitted to a plastic surgery in Shanghai to try
fix his huge hand transforming it into a normal hand.

This huge hand has dimensions never seen before, his index finger measured
30 centimeters, 26 centimeters thumb and ring is 15 cm, while
your other fingers are normal.
His whole arm weighs 10 kilos!
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According to Guinness World Records the tallest man in history was Robert Pershing Wadlow. <
Robert was born in Alton, Illinois, USA, February 22, 1918, and in his last measurement that was recorded on June 27, 1940, the measure was 2.72m (8 feet 11.1 inches) high!

Wadlow died on July 15, 1940 at a hotel in Manistee, Michigan, because of a septic blister on his right ankle caused by a brace that had been poorly fitted only a week before his death.
He was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Alton and the coffin that used for measured body, 3.28m long, 81 inches wide and 76 inches deep

The largest recorded weight was 222.71 kg Wadlow at 21 years and at the time of his death 199 kg weight.
The impressive size of his hands was of 32.4 inches, measured from the wrist to the tip of middle finger. The extension of his arms was of 2.88 meters! and its highest peak daily food consumption was 8000 calories.

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The world's tallest tree is located in California and was dubbed Hyperion.

The species of this tree is Sequoia and measures 115 feet tall! To give you an idea of the immensity of this tree,
are 21 meters more than the height of the Statue of Liberty!

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Einstein is born again, a child of only 2 years and 5 months Wrigley named Oscar is the youngest member of Mensa, the international organization they belong to the most intelligent people around the world, both men and women.
The IQ of this small, is over 160 points! situation in which the maximum level within the intelligence test Stanford-Binet for children.
The intelligence of this child is being compared with that of Einstein or Stephen Hawking!

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After years of research by NASA scientists have reached the coldest place in the solar system.
To their surprise, they found that site closer than they thought .. the coldest place in the solar system is the moon!

The only satellite of our planet Earth has very deep craters, which in turn are inside craters, giving a depth that results in that sunlight never reaches that point.
The temperature in these holes so deep reaches -238 degrees Celsius below zero