A man named Mbah Gotho of Indonesia claims to be 146 years old, and there is a photo of his government ID card to prove it. The card shows his birth date as December 31, 1870. He has outlived all 10 of his siblings, four wives, and his children.
There’s a beaver dam located in Wood Buffalo National Park in northern Alberto, Canada, that is so large it can be seen from outer space. It spans 2,789 feet across.
In 2013, Navy Veteran Lonnie Bedwell became the first completely blind kayaker to paddle the entire length of the Grand Canyon, 226 miles in a solo kayak. It took him16 days.
In 1979, a woman named Elvita Adams attempted suicide by jumping off the 86th floor of the Empire State Building. She survived when a gust of wind blew her back onto a ledge on the 85th floor.
A boa constrictor has an innate ability to sense its prey’s heartbeat. If it senses a heartbeat, the snake will add more pressure until it feels no heartbeat.
There is a humpback whale that has been tracked by Green Peace since 2008 called Mr. Splashy Pants.
About half of Australia’s koalas have chlamydia. In fact, their strain of koala chlamydia can also infect humans.
Mathematician Katherine Johnson is known as the “computer.” Her obsession with counting allowed her to skip ahead in high school at the age of 10, and in 1961 she calculated the trajectory of NASA’s first manned trip into space and was correct.
Ann Hodges from Alabama is the only confirmed person in history that has ever been hit by a meteorite. On a clear day in November of 1954, she was having a nap on her couch when a soft-ball-sized hunk of black rock broke through her ceiling, bounced off a radio, and hit her in the thigh, leaving a pineapple-shaped bruise.
Back in 1994, a man named Tony Cicoria was struck by lightning while standing next to a public telephone and was resuscitated by a nurse who was waiting to use that phone. Not long after his recovery, he noticed that his head became flooded with music, so he went out and bought a piano, and is now a successful composer and performer.
My Earth Angel sent this to me years ago.
I know you will enjoy it too!
Keep it and file it under “A” for Antidepressant. It works beautifully. -Sheila Tolley-
Venus and Jupiter: Conjunction from Avebury Image Credit & Copyright:Josh Dury
Explanation: To see Venus and Jupiter together this month, you won’t need binoculars or even a telescope. Just look up after sunset and you’ll find them emerging as the sky grows dark near the western horizon. In fact, on June 9 the two brightest planets were in close conjunction, separated on the sky by less than 2 degrees from our perspective. Since (brighter) inner planet Venus orbits the Sun faster than outer planet Jupiter, it catches up with and passes the outer planet along the ecliptic roughly every 13 months. But every three years or so their resulting conjunction can be viewed far enough from the Sun to be easily seen in Earth’s twilight skies. On June 9, the two celestial beacon’s close “cosmic kiss” was captured here next to the two large standing stones at the cove within a 4,000 year old stone circle at Avebury, UK. Larger than Stonehenge, the Avebury henge and stone circle complex is also recognized as one of the most significant neolithic ceremonial sites on planet Earth.