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11 words a second: The Fastest Talking Woman In The World

Fran Capo has held the Guinness World Record for the fastest-talking female for more than two decades. On average, she can spit out 11 words a second.

Capo, who’s from New York City (obviously), has recorded a new video to remind us all just how quickly she can spew out words. Watch here as she recites “The Three Little Pigs” in a breezy 15 seconds, but let us warn you: this will stress you out in a major way. Be sure to take plenty of deep breaths.

Actually Fran broke this record twice, the first time on the Larry King Live Show on March 5th, 1986 speaking 585 wpm and the second time at the Guinness Museum in Vegas speaking 603.32 words in 54.2 seconds.

Fran Capo has appeared on over 250 TV shows including; Good Morning America, Larry King Live, Last Call with Carson Daly, Inside Edition, ET, Ripley’s Believe it or Not, More than Human and Nick at Nite’s - Hi Jinx. She’s been heard on over 1000 radio shows including Howard Stern. She came from her upstate New York home to promote an Expedia.ca contest for fast-talkers with a prize trip to Vegas, spiritual home of fast-talkers.

Fran Capo has been doing adventures since an early age. As an adventurer Fran has bungee jumped, swam with sharks, flown combat aircraft, driven race cars, crawled in a polar bear den, slept in an ice hotel, climbed Kilimanjaro and dove to the wreck site of the Titanic.

She has written several articles on her adventures, journals them in her weekly blogs, and has authored the book “Adrenaline Adventures: Dream it, Read it, Do it!” which not only chronicles 50 of her adventures, but tells the reader where they can go out an do it themselves.

She likes to say she's 37, with a 19-year old son, was divorced when he was 4 months old, married again but "it lasted three months it was just lust." Fran also has done book signings at the top of Mount Kilimanjaro and at the Titanic! World Record Academy recognized these records as "Highest altitude book signing" and "Deepest Sea book signing".

This is fishing like you have never seen before. The Antogo fishing ritual is an annual occurrence in Northern Mali that makes for incredible viewing.

Just beneath the village of Bamba, in the Northern part of Dogon country in Mali, lies a small, yet sacred lake, where fishing is permitted only once a year – during the unique ritual called Antogo.

In the past, Bamba is said to have been covered in lush green forests. The lake, which is considered to be sacred and populated with good spirits, used to offer tons of fish that contributed to local food requirements. But with changes in climate, desertification, and the passage of time, the region gradually became dry, infertile and inhospitable.

The locals now face huge problems such as unavailability of water, but the lake still represents a precious resource to the local Dogons, but one which they exhaust every year during Antogo. The event is held on the 6th month of the dry season, generally in May, but the exact date is fixed each year by the council of wise men. Saturdays are market days in Bamba, and for the first three market days of the month wooden sticks are placed in the middle of the lake, acting as a signal, a warning that the ritual is getting closer.

On the day that is finally designated as the day of Antogo, hundreds gather from all parts of Mali around Bamba’s lake. The 3 biggest groups are formed by the most respected and ancient families of various Dogon villages. The group from Bamba itself is usually the largest. These groups of people maintain a collective mystical silence, except for the wise who recite incantations and praise deities. When they are done speaking, the ritual itself – and all the magic associated with it – begins.

The event is held on the 6th month of the dry season, generally in May, but the exact date is fixed each year by the council of wise men. The people of the Dogon rush the sacred Antogo Lake in Mali, where fishing is only permitted once in the year.

The ritual is strongly based on ancestor worship, and along with other rituals in Dogon culture, and women are prohibited from participating. Though legend has it that that a young woman discovered the lake and its miraculous fish, starting the chain of ritual fishing in the desert pool. Regardless, they are omitted from the frenzy. Below is a clip of what can be expected on the big day and one thing is for sure, you need to be quick off the mark in this company.

At Ramat Gan Safari, endangered animals react with cries to blaring sirens. Protective move is in stark contrast to Hamas using citizens as human shields.

While Israelis in the Tel Aviv area have been running for cover and crouching on the sides of highways when alarm sirens blared in recent days to warn of incoming rockets, the animals in Israel’s zoos had nowhere to go.

In a stark contrast to the inhumanness of Hamas using citizens as human shields in the Middle East conflict with Israel, elephants in Israel were seen huddling around their young ones to protect them during an air raid Wednesday at a safari park.

The Ramat Gan Safari, located in the Tel Aviv District, has the largest collection of wildlife in human care in the Middle East, and features a drive-through African safari and modern zoo on 250 acres. Israel’s Operation Protective Edge and the conflict with Hamas and Palestinian terrorist groups clearly have the animals on edge.

Behold the largest movable machine in the world: The Overburden Conveyor Bridge F60 is more than half a kilometer long. At 1647 feet long and 13,600 tons, it's much larger than the Empire State Building, a Nimitz-class super carrier or the Bagger 288, the previous record holder.

Used to carry brown coal in the open mines of Lusatia, Germany, the F60 is an amazing 1647 feet (502 meters) x 262 feet (80 meters) x 787 feet (240 meter) and 13,600 tons. The Bagger is 288 is 721 x 315 x 151 feet and 13,500 tons.

Of course, this is NOT an exhaustive list of all african dances. This is new africa! Enjoy & share the revolution.

First off – it’s not a tarantula. What you’re looking at (and what’s looking at you) started out as an idea two years ago, an idea which examined the threads of human and animal evolution – where we are and what comes next.

It was, says conceptual body artist Emma Fay, something she’d been itching to try and explore in paint. It all fell into place with a move to a larger studio in South Wigston earlier this year and when Emma enlisted fellow colleagues in the Enter Edem creative team, the project was able to proceed.

Emma drafted in contortionists Lowri Thomas and Beth Sykes, and then photographer Jonathan Macauley, and for the next six hours she very, very carefully painted a giraffe onto bendy Beth.

A photograph of Emma’s astonishing quadruped went viral after ending up, quite bizarrely, on the Facebook page of Dutch primatologist Frans de Waal. That was three and a bit weeks ago.

Luis Hernan is like a modern day ghost hunter. Only instead of searching for lost souls, he’s looking for the technological apparitions that surround us every day.

In Digital Ethereal, Hernan, a PhD student at Newcastle University’s School of Architecture, has been investigating the invisible wireless infrastructures in order to glean a better understanding about how these wireless systems are designed and how we interact with them.

Digital Ethereal is part art, part industrial design and part technological inquiry. He began by designing a gadget called the Kirlian Device, named after Semyon Davidovich Kirlian, a 20th century scientist who developed the Kirlian photography technique.

This technique, which visualizes electrical coronal discharges, has been used for various scientific purposes, but it’s most commonly associated with paranormal activities like reading auras.

This guy in Bratislava, Slovakia, realised that with a few modifications, a shipping pallet was the perfect width to ride the tram tracks around town. Nailed it!

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With a slightly sinister and unmistakably mischievous tone, british designer Kyle Bean materializes ‘forbidden fruit’ as a series of dangerously armed produce, bearing unusual self defense mechanisms.

Photographed for latest issue of The Gourmand Magazine in collaboration with photographer aaron tilley, bean has composed five visualizations of the guarded garden greens: a pear’s prickly pins protrude from its smooth skin, circular saw blades slice into an oversized watermelon, barbed wire barricades a banana, razor sharp blades puncture a juicy red apple, and a fiery blaze of flames engulfs a grapefruit. Each snack embodies its own spunky and edgy style, while its protective personality seems to divulge secrets about a ‘dark side’ of fruit.