$6,100 For A Watermelon In Japan
It weights just 8kg and its worth $6,100. The Densuke watermelon which originates from the Hokkaido, was sold in an auction for a record 650,000 yen (US$6,100), making it the most expensive watermelon in the world. The guy who bought it said he did so to support local agriculture. Watermelons may be scarce in Japan, hence a luxury item for most, but the amount paid for this one is just too much. Usual supermarket prices for these watermelons are $188 to $283.
See the video below
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Banana Trees Will Get Extinct In A Few Years
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A fungus is eating away all of our bananas! Its not a joke, its a true fact that is known to the banana growing community for years now. The Panama Disease fungus converts the yellow-creamy bananas into a brick-red fruit that is inedible. And the worse part is that there is no cure for it. Scientists expect that within 10-30 years there will be no more bananas in the world.
Till this yellow fruit gets extinct you can enjoy new ways of pealing a banana like this guy in a Japanese TV show:
Internet Cafe On Mount Everest (17,060ft or 5,200 meters)
China Mobile built an Internet Cafe at elevation of 17,060 ft (5,200 m) in Mount Everest in order to offer Internet communication to Olympic torch relay team.
Currently the Internet Cafe has about 40-50 visitors per day and China Mobile has enough bandwidth dedicated to this facility that it is supposed to be the highest Internet Cafe in the world
So next time you find yourself on Everest looking for an Internet Connection remember this post by Weberence and try to find the base camp where the Internet Cafe is 
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Legoland UK Builds World’s tallest LEGO tower
500,000 blocks was all it took to make the worlds tallest LEGO tower in Windsor’s Legoland theme park in the UK. The tower, constructed to celebrate the 50th anniversary of LEGO, reaches 29.30 meters in the air (couldn’t they round it up to 30?). The tower is not freestanding. It is supported by stabilizing guy wires to protect it from high winds. The tower has been submitted to the Guinness Book of World Records
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Antilla - World’s Most Expensive House
I am not sure if i should call this huge $2bn building a house, but this is what it’s owner, Mukesh Ambani India’s richest man and the 5th richest person in the world wants to call it.
This 22 story 550ft tall building in the heart of Mumbai will soon be the residence of Ambani, his wife, his three children and his mother. The unbelievable 400,000 sq feet interior space will have of a number of facilities starting by the 6 story parking!
It is said that when the building construction ends, the family will hire 600 employees to work on their… house!
Well, if i had a 400,000 sq feet house i would surely live every day of the year in a different 1,000 sq feet part, to not get bored.
There is also a video for Antilla, watch it
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The Human Race Nearly Extinct 70,000 Years Ago
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70,000 years ago humans came close to extinction as a result of climate change (drought) as scientists speculate. This was revealed from a genetic survey which showed that we were down to just 2,000 people.
Paleontology Professor Meave Leakey from Stony Brook University said:
Who would have thought that as recently as 70,000 years ago, extremes of climate had reduced our population to such small numbers that we were on the very edge of extinction
The clues of our origin and history were tracked through the maternally-transmitted mitochondrial DNA. It is now known that the human species originated from Africa about 200,000 years ago. Scientists believe that these early humans (before stone age) started suddenly to separate and formed smaller groups possibly due to the droughts that took place in Africa 100,000 years ago. These isolated groups later started merging till they left Africa and spread across the world.
The decedents of these 2,000 people have now reached 6.6 billion.
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