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A new world record was set when a 34.05 m train was made of dark chocolate, whose production required 784 hours of work. The chocolate train weighs 1,285 kg and the Guinness Book of Records officials marked the chocolate train as a recorder. The man who made the train, Andrew Farrugia from Malta, says the train was meant to be much smaller but he kept adding wagon after wagon and finally made a train... 

Despite advanced modern technology, many households in Great Britain still use black-and-white television sets because subscription for them costs £100 less than for the color televisions. The subscription for a black-and-white TV costs £49. The grandson of television inventor John Logie Baird, deputy curator at the Media Museum in Bradford thinks that television has a central place in family life... 

The amateur digger was looking for gold with the help of a metal detector and the nugget, the first of its kind to ever be found in that area, was only 60 centimeters underground. One of the local dealers says that a nugget weighing over 3 kg has never been found on this territory. According to current market rates, this gold nugget is worth about USD 315,000.   »

The staff of “EasyJet” had to ask four men to leave the airplane, which couldn’t take off because there were too many male passengers on it. The airplane, scheduled to depart from Liverpool to Geneva, was too heavy because it was carrying more male than female passengers. The airline calculates passenger load according airline’s to an average weight of 88 kg for men, 70 kg for women... 

The conducted research, was based on image, brand visibility and monuments. The research included ten different parameters, which have been suggested by various organizations for analysis and statistics. The  include criteria also were  the travel index, according to which it is taken into account “the economic value of the sites, monuments notoriety, the influx of visitors and the territory... 

This luxury hotel, currently under construction in the village of Rudovac, will have 12 spacious duplex apartments and will be able to accommodate 26 guests. The constructor of the first hotel for horses is Radoje Raša Stanojlović, 63-year old university professor of economics, who lived in America for more than thirty years and who decided to build this hotel to provide accommodation for the horses... 

The Distant History of Comics Comics as we know them originated at the same time as film and animation, at the close of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. Although comics in their present-day form first appeared in newspapers and magazines in the early 1890s, narrative illustration had existed for centuries before that. Trajan’s Column with its engraved images which tell a story if viewed... 

Positive reviews can be written by employees to improve the job, and negative in most cases are the work of competition. Researchers from Cornell University, caused by a growing number of negative reviews about hotels, are on their way to develop a computer program that can detect “imposters”. The computer analysis the text separating true reviews from false ones, and its based on the accepted... 

Hotel Refuge du Gouter is located at 3,835 m above sea level, on the road to the peak of Mont Blanc. This hotel can currently accommodate 96 people and the owners plan to increase capacity next year up to 120. A small house was built on this spot in 1960, serving as shelter for mountain climbers and nature lovers. If you wish to come to Refuge du Gouter, you will have to take the lift to Mont Lachat... 

The skyscraper “Gate to the East” which is under construction in China may become one of the strangest buildings in the world. The reason for this is the form of the building, which reminds most people of a pair of trousers. The skyscraper represents a $700 million investment and was meant to provide a spectacular and distinctive view to the east, one that would overshadow even the Triumphal...