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Saudi Arabia Plans to Build the Tallest Building in the World
It will be called Kingdom Tower and it will rise to 5,280 feet. That’s a full mile.
Saudi Arabia has just given the OK to start construction on the Kingdom Tower, the world’s first mile-high skyscraper. The tower will be built in the coastal city of Jeddah and is set to cost a whopping cost $30 billion.
Housed in the structure will be space for offices, residences, and a hotel. It’s hard to even imagine how massive this thing will be; at literally one mile high, it will dwarf Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, which stands at roughly 2,700ft. You could very well basejump to your limo downstairs.
200 Giant Spiders, Termites, Snakes and a Gecko Feast on Man
I’m gonna have nightmares after reading the article. Well I didn’t plan on sleeping tonight anyway!
A MAN was found dead in his apartment draped in spider webs and more than 200 spiders, several snakes, thousands of termites, and a gecko were feasting on his corpse.
Mark Voegel, 30, was found dead in Dortmund, Germany.
Authorities were alerted when concerned neighbours noticed a horrendous stench emanating from the apartment.
His black widow, Bettina, is believed to have administered the deadly bite.Voeger’s apartment has been described as both a “zoo” and a “jungle” by authorities. He never let people visit.
A police spokesman said, according to the Sun: “It was like a horror movie. His corpse was over the sofa. Giant webs draped him, spiders were all over him.
They were coming out of his nose and his mouth. There was everything there one could imagine in the world of reptiles. Larger pieces of flesh torn off by the lizards were scooped up and taken back to the webs of tarantulas and other bird-eating spiders.”
The spiders and termites managed to escape when the heating elements exploded and opened the lids to their tanks.
The lizards were allowed to roam.Voegel also kept a pet boa constricter and several poisonous frogs.
He was dead for somewhere between seven and fourteen days when his corpse was found, enough time for the creepy-crawlies to make a new home out of his apartment.
Reminds me of this:
Life Lessons from Jack LaLanne
He was quite the encouragement to many people over the years including me. Rest in peace good man.
LaLanne would roll his eyes at guys reading newspapers on stationary cycles. That wasn’t exercising. No, for LaLanne, every exercise needed to be done as hard as possible. And he let his muscles know it: “’C’mon, you bastards!’ See, you gotta talk to `em. These muscles are saying, `I can’t do it anymore.’ The hell you can’t! I won’t feed you! You sons of bitches work for me, Jack LaLanne! These muscles are my servants.”
Here are some other lessons to take away from a life well-lived:
LaLanne on pushing hard . . .
“I believe in vigorous, violent, daily, systematic exercise to the point of muscle failure.”LaLanne on habits . . .
“It’s not what you do some of the time that counts, it’s what you do all of the time that counts.”“Exercise is King, nutrition is Queen, put them together and you’ve got a kingdom.”
LaLanne on mental fitness . . .
“Fitness starts between your ears. Your muscles, what the hell do they know? Nothing. It’s brains. If you had to eat carrots the rest of your life, you’d go nuts. It’s variety, see? That’s why I change my workout every 30 days.LaLanne on nutrition . .
“If it tastes good, spit it out.”“Eat right and you can’t go wrong.”
“If man makes it, I don’t eat it.”
“Look at my Corvette, a `98—one of the finest sports cars I’ve ever had. Would I put water in the gas tank? Well, think about the crap people put in their bodies–white flour, sugar, all this processed food. It’s just like using water for fuel.”
LaLanne on abs . . .
“Your waistline is your lifeline.”The scissors exercise: Grip the seat of an armless chair, straighten your legs, lift them as high as you can, then quickly and continuously cross them over each other.
The LaLanne meal plan . . .
Breakfast was always LaLanne’s biggest meal of the day, a blended concoction of juice, wheat germ, brewer’s yeast, bone meal, protein powder, and handfuls of vitamins and minerals. He would drink it after his workout, too, when he was too thirsty to mind the awful taste.Lunch was three to five pieces of fruit, vegetable soup, and four egg whites.
Dinner was a salad, plus fresh fish and brown rice.
LaLanne on working every muscle of the body . . .
“Your health account is like your bank account: The more you put in, the more you can take out.”LaLanne claimed to work every one of his 640 muscles in his body every day. That included doing goofy facial contortions and picking up marbles with his toes.
LaLanne on longevity . . .
“I can’t die. It would ruin my image.”“People don’t die of old age, they die of inactivity.”
“Never, ever think of dying. I think of living . . . living, boy, you have to work at it.”
LaLanne on the sexual health benefits of exercise . . .
“I wake up every morning with an erection a cat can’t scratch.”LaLanne on motivation . . .
“Do, don’t stew.”“Anything in life is possible and you can make it happen.”
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