Travel Facts

The World’s Biggest Horse, Brooklyn Supreme

The world’s largest horse at 19.2 hands and 3,200 lbs. “Brookie” wore a 40-inch collar and boasted a girth measurement of 10 feet, 2 inches around. It took 30 inches of iron for each of his horseshoes. Foaled in 1928, he eventually became the property of C.G. Good of Iowa. Good’s partner, Ralph Fogleman, exhibited the big horse around the …

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2016 Wildlife Photographer finalist

All you nature lovers gather around! The 52nd annual ‘Wildlife Photographer of the Year’ (WPY) competition has recently released a preview of this year’s finalists. A curious fox in an urban area, a hungry hornbill eating a termite, mayflies swarming around under a starry night sky… These spectacular images and a few more stood out for the judges as the …

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A Music School in China!!

We’ve seen a home made of nautical artefacts and zeppelins. We’ve seen a home with a slide in it. We’ve even seen a man living on a plane. So we’re no strangers to really weird real estate. But never did we ever imagine that we’d one day see this: introducing China’s Piano House. Yes, it’s a music school — in …

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Elephant Rock in New Zealand

A piece of an iconic North Taranaki rock formation – Elephant Rock in New Zealand has lost its trunk. It sits near another renowned rock formation – the Three Sisters – at Tongaporutu, south of Mokau, just off State Highway 3. The rock is about 400 m from the view of Tongaporutu resident Mike Brown who looks out at the …

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18 Foot underwater statue

An 18-foot- tall underwater statue weighing 60-tonnes is a wondrous creation all on its own. But Jason deCaires Taylor had bigger plans for this sculpture than its already giant size. He titles his latest sculpture, Ocean Atlas, and it includes this massive girl beneath the ocean waters off the coast of Nassau in the Bahamas. On her shoulders she carries …

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The founder of FedEx saved his company from bankruptcy

FedEx, the world’s first overnight delivery company, delivers more than 1.2 billion packages every year in over 220 countries. Yet in its early days, founder Frederick Smith was so desperate, he had to rely on gambling in Vegas to fund his company. While majoring in economics at Yale University in 1962, Smith wrote a paper about the automation of society …

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The Singing Tree

A 3-meter-tall, wind-powered musical sculpture made of galvanized steel pipes, it stands high above the English town of Burnley. The pipes swirl to form the shape of a tree bent and blown by the wind, and produce an eerie, melodious music as the constant wind on Crown Point drifts through them. The Singing Ringing Tree pipes are used for both …

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Bugatti Chiron Interior

The Bugatti Chiron is a mid-engined, two-seated sports car, designed by Achim Anscheidt and developed by the Bugatti automotive group (which is owned by the Volkswagen Group) as the successor to the Bugatti Veyron. The Chiron was first shown at the Geneva Motor Show on March 1, 2016. The car is named in honor of the Monegasque driver Louis Chiron. …

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The Bridge Between Denmark and Sweden

The resund is an engineering marvel that connects the Danish capital of Copenhagen to the Swedish city of Malm. A cable-stayed bridge runs nearly 8 km (5 miles) to an artificial island where it transitions into a tunnel that runs another 4 km (2.5 miles). The award-winning double-track railway and motorway opened on July 1, 2000. The  resund was designed …

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Sky That Looks Like A Rough Sea

Sky That Looks Like A Rough Sea Earlier in July, storm chaser Alex Schueth captured a mesmerizing time-lapse of undulatus asperatus clouds rolling over Lincoln, Nebraska during a storm. The rare formation, whose name means roughened or agitated waves looks like a sea of dark and stormy waters churning ominously in the sky. According to Weather.com, undulatus asperatus clouds are …

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School in England Wears The Same Uniform For 460 Years.

Christ’s Hospital prides itself on maintaining traditions. The uniform, is of course, just one of the many fascinating aspects of Christ’s Hospital, with which it has been associated from its earliest days. The instantly recognisable uniform is possibly the oldest in existence and has hardly altered since Tudor times. It consists of a long blue coat, belted at the waist, …

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Swedish Naval Base

Configuration Wizard Muskö Naval Base is a Swedish underground naval facility on the island of Muskö just south of Stockholm in Haninge Municipality (Haninge Kommun). The construction of the base started in 1950 and was completed 19 years later in 1969. During the construction, about 1.5 million tons of rock were removed. It has 3 docks, originally designed for destroyers …

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