World’s Largest Mud-Brick Building

“The walls of the Great Mosque are made of sun-baked mud bricks called ferey, a mud based mortar, and are coated with a mud plaster which gives the building its smooth, sculpted look. The walls are between 16 in. and 24 in. thick – the thickness varying with the wall’s height. Bundles of palm branches were included in the building to reduce cracking caused by frequent drastic changes in humidity and temperature and to serve as readymade scaffolding for annual repairs. The walls insulate the building from heat during the day and by nightfall have absorbed enough heat to keep the mosque warm through the night. Gutters, made of ceramic pipes, extend from the roofline and direct water drainage from the roof away from the walls. To protect the Great Mosque from water damage, in particular flooding by the Bani river, the entire structure was constructed on a raised platform 3 meters high. A set of six stairs, each decorated with pinnacles, leads to the mosque’s entrance.” w/ photos. LINK

Sunflower star has weird way of eating

A sunflower star can have up to 26 arms and 15,000 tube feet, which it can use to pry open a clam. The sunflower star then pushes its stomach out of its mouth and into the clam, digesting the hapless bivalve in its own shell.

The sunflower star is the largest sea star in the world. It's also one of the fastest animals on the ocean bottom, crawling one metre... a minute, which may not seem that fast to us but is speedy if you're a clam just chillin' on the sand.
LINK: Youtube

The World's Largest Record Collection

Rocketboom Spotlight on The Archive, a film by Sean Dunne. Paul Mawhinney was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. Over the years he has amassed what has become the world's largest record collection. Due to health issues and a struggling record industry Paul is being forced to sell his collection. This is the story of a man and his records.
LINK: Youtube

World’s Largest Rope Swing

Devin Super Tramp presents the world’s largest rope swing in Moab, Utah. LINK, Via: Youtube


Via: Viral Viral Videos

The Grand Rapids LipDub (NEW WORLD RECORD)

"The Grand Rapids LipDub Video was filmed May 22nd, with 5,000 people, and involved a major shutdown of downtown Grand Rapids, which was filled with marching bands, parades, weddings, motorcades, bridges on fire, and helicopter take offs. It is the largest and longest LipDub video, to date.

This video was created as an official response to the Newsweek article calling Grand Rapids a "dying city." We disagreed strongly, and wanted to create a video that encompasses the passion and energy we all feel is growing exponentially, in this great city. We felt Don McLean's "American Pie," a song about death, was in the end, triumphant and filled to the brim with life and hope." - Rob Bliss, Director & Executive Producer.

Go to LINK: Youtube and you can see all the sponsors for this video.

Sever’s Corn Maze in Shakopee, MN

Find your way through the Vikings Norseman at Sever’s Corn Maze in Shakopee, MN and you could win tickets to an upcoming Vikings game.

Sever's Corn Maze - America's Largest Corn Maze - Shakopee, Minnesota
www.severscornmaze.com

Join us for our 14th year of family fun. This year, Sever's Corn Maze and Fall Festival is proud to partner with the Minnesota Vikings 50th Season and we'll be giving away Vikings tickets each and every weekend throughout our season. So, Show Your Horns and be sure to make your way out to the Twin Cities original and America's largest corn maze.

THIS WEEK: We are open Thursday Oct. 21st through Sunday Oct. 24th. All shows and attractions will be open and operating each day. Hours are 11am - 6pm. The weather looks great, so come on out.

Krupp Digging Machine - World's Largest Digging Machine

Taking over five years to design and manufacture along with $100 million, the Krupp Digging Machine is the largest trenching machine in the world. This amazing machine is 700 ft long and weighs over 45,000 tons. Take a look at more of the world’s largest machines at Oddee: Link, Via: Neatorama


This is the largest digging machine (or trencher or rotating shovel) in the world. It was built by Krupp and is shown here crossing a road in Germany on the way to its destination, an open air coal mine. Although at the mine the treads are unnecessary, it was cheaper to make the machine self-propelled than to try and move it with conventional hauling equipment.


Some factoids:

The machine is 95 meters high and 215 meters long (almost 2.5 football fields in length)
Weight is 45,500 tons (that's equivalent to a bumper to bumper line of jeeps 80 miles long)
It took 5 years to design and manufacture at a cost of $100 million
Maximum digging speed is 10 meters per minute
Can move more than 76,000 cubic meters of coal, rock, and earth per day. LINK

Possibly the largest spider web in the world

The largest spiderweb in the world. Thousands of spiders working together to make the worlds largest spiderweb. LINK: Youtube

World's Largest Skateboard

This summer, California Skateparks brought The World's Largest Skateboard to Camp Woodward PA. One afternoon, campers and staff took the enormous skateboard out for a ride. Late in the day, California Skateparks owner, Joe Ciaglia decided to take his creation for a solo ride. LINK: Youtube

Music: 'Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!' - ABBA

TOP 10 LARGEST HOMES IN THE UNITED STATES

“These are the ten largest homes in the United States by square footage that were built before 1950. All ten of these mansion homes are big tourist attractions today that collectively receive over 5 million visitors annually. Ironically the only largest home on the list that is not currently open to the public is the only home owned by the public.” LINK

World’s Largest Blossoming Plant

A wistaria vine in Sierra Madre, California has been named as the World’s Largest Flowering Plant by the Guinness Book of World Records. This vine is so big it has its own festival! William and Alice Brugman planted it in 1894 to celebrate the purchase of their new home. The wistaria eventually destroyed the house! 116 years later, it is healthy and sprouts about a million and half blooms every year.

Link to story. Link to festival. – Via: greendiary, Via: Neatotama

Klencke Atlas - The Largest Book in the World

The British Library has announced that the Klencke Atlas will have its first-ever public showing this summer as part of a map exhibition.

It is almost absurdly huge – 1.75 metres (5ft) tall and 1.9 metres (6ft) wide – and was given to [Charles II] by Dutch merchants and placed in his cabinet of curiosities.

At the time of its creation, it was intended as “an encyclopaedic summary of the world.” LINK: Neatorama

Link. Previously on Neatorama: The [other] Largest Book in the World

The Largest Pickup Truck in the World

(YouTube Link)

In the 1990s, Seikh Hamad bin Hamdan Al Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates decided to build a giant pickup truck. The result was a truck modeled on the 1950s era Dodge Power Wagon (apparently an iconic vehicle in his country) precisely 64 times larger than the original. It contains a full suite of rooms and can actually drive. The video clip above is from Jeremy Clarkson’s BBC documentary series Motorworld.

Link, Via: Ace of Spades HQ, Via: Neatorama

Largest. Animal. Ever.

The largest known animal in our Earth's history is the size of a basketball court and weighs as much a 8 DC-9 airplanes.

This article attempts to put some astonishing facts about this creature into perspective.

The Blue Whale’s tongue weighs around 2.7 metric tons (5,952 pounds) about the size of an average Asian Elephant.

Its mouth is large enough to hold up to 90 metric tons (198,400 pounds) of food and water which is equivalent to 420,560 Big Macs

Its heart weighs 600 kg (1,300 lb) and is the largest known in any animal.



Link, Via: Neatorama , Via: Youtube

The Largest Model Railway In The World

At 11,840 square feet, this is the world's largest model railway. There are 800 trains, and over 10,000 train cars in total. Over 170 computer controlled cars, more than 200,000 people, controlled by 40 computers. LINK, Via: Youtube

The Largest Helicopter Ever Built

The Russian Mil V-12 was by far largest helicopter ever built. It was developed in the Soviet Union during the 1960s.

The V-12 featured two rotors mounted side by side at the ends of a large wing. Each rotor had a diameter of nearly 115 ft. The helicopter was so enormous that the distance from the edge of one rotor disk to the other was almost 220 ft, even wider across than the wingspan of a Boeing 747.

More large helicopters at Aerospaceweb. Via: Presurfer