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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Some of the world’s ugly-looking, weird fish are actually tasty. Have you tasted the Hoki Fish that McDonalds use in its Filet-O-Fish sandwich? Yes, that’s Hoki fish you are eating. While others find the Hoki ugly, I still think there are more weird-looking fishes out there.

1. Grenadier Fish – with big mouth and scaly skin

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A team of scientists ventured into a remote volcano in Papua New Guinea and discovered the bizarre, weird animals you can only find on Earth. The new species of weird animals include a rats as big as a cat, a fanged frog and grunting fish. Below are some of the photos of the new species found in the “Lost World.”

Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan with the Bosavi Woolly Rat. One of the biggest rats in the world, it measures just over 32 inches from nose to tail and weighs 3lb. The rat is not afraid of humans.

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The list below of the Worlds Largest/Biggest Shopping Malls contains the world’s 13 largest shopping malls, based on gross leasable area (GLA) rather than total area. Gross leasable area indicates the amount of floor space available to be rented. It is defined as the total floor area designed for tenant occupancy and exclusive use, including any basements, mezzanines, or upper floors.

1. New South China Mall in Dongguan, China – 600,000 m2 (6.46 million sq ft)

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There are quite a number of “ten unexplained phenomena” listings posted online. With Google Doodle showing a UFO logo recently and linking it to the search keywords “unexplained phenomenon,” people are eager to know what these unexplained phenomena are.

I collected the list and presented them below. First part of this series is from MSNBC’s “Weird Science: Top unexplained mysteries.”

The body/mind connection - Medical science is only beginning to understand the ways in which the mind influences the body. The placebo effect, for example, demonstrates that people can at times cause a relief in medical symptoms or suffering by believing the cures to be effective — whether they actually are or not.

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