A song called “Nobody But You” (but people call it “Nobody, Nobody But You”) was popularized by an all-girl Korean group, the Wonder Girls. The song is getting so much attention and popularity in Southeast Asia that everyone is addicted to it and wants to dance with the music. Even robots dance to “Nobody, Nobody But You”. Wanna learn the dance steps?

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The biggest library in the world, according to the Guinness Book of Records, is the Library of Congress found in the United States. The judgment was based on the shelf space that the library collection occupies. The Library of Congress occupies a space of about 850 km (530 miles) for its 150 million item collections.

Library of Congress – World’s biggest library
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So where is the biggest or largest castle in the world located? Is it in Europe? Or is the largest castle in North America? How would you know the total area of a castle? An article came up with an idea to compute the size using KML Area Calculator. The top 5 on the list are shown below. I added photos of the castles.

Malbork Castle in Poland – 143,591 square meters

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This could be the biggest trout caught ever! On September 5, Saskatchewan fisherman Sean Konrad caught a 48-pound fish — a world-record rainbow trout. The fish came from Lake Diefenbaker, which others think the trout may have been genetically-engineered.

Giant Trout – 48 pounds

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Just few days ago, a TV news channel reported the birth of a baby at Franciscan Skemp Medical Center in La Crosse. Chuck Berendes and his wife were surprised to know that their baby was born at exactly 9:09 on 9/9/09 and weighs 9 lbs, 9 ounces.

Are there other babies born in same-number combination?

Meet Xander Riniker, born at 8:08 a.m. on August 8, 2008 and weighs 8 pounds, 8 ounces. Xander was born at St. Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

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The following is a list/photos of people with unusual long names. They have received media attention because of their unusual (weird?) long names. The longest name for a person belongs to a German immigrant to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His name is (beat this) :

(First and middle names — representing every letter of the alphabet)
Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvim John Kenneth Loyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas Victor Willian Xerxes Yancy Zeus

(Last name)
Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorffvoralternwarengewissenhaftschaf
erswesenchafewarenwholgepflegeundsorgfaltigkeitbeschutzenvonange
reifenduchihrraubgiriigfeindewelchevorralternzwolftausendjahresvorand
ieerscheinenbanderersteerdeemmeshedrraumschiffgebrauchlichtalssein
ursprungvonkraftgestartseinlangefahrthinzwischensternartigraumaufde
rsuchenachdiesternwelshegehabtbewohnbarplanetenkreisedrehensichu
ndwohinderneurassevanverstandigmenshlichkeittkonntevortpflanzenund
sicherfreunanlebenslamdlichfreudeundruhemitnichteinfurchtvorangreifen
vonandererintlligentgeschopfsvonhinzwischensternartigraum

He later shortened it to Mr. Hubert Wolfe, although there are times that he used the name Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff, Sr.

Here are the rest of them with strange long names:
1. Siddig El Tahir El Fadil El Siddig Abderrahman Mohammed Ahmed Abdel Karim El Mahdi (short version: Alexander Siddig) Sudanese-born English actor, also known as Siddig El Fadil and Alexander Siddig.
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