The largest fish ever caught by any method was a 17-foot-long, 4,500-pound white shark, harpooned by Frank Mundus off Montauk Point, Long Island, New York in 1964.
The largest fish ever caught by rod and reel was a white shark measuring 16 feet 10 inches long and weighing 2,664 pounds.
It was brought in by Alf Dean at Denial Bay, near Ceduna, South Australia, on April 21, 1959.
Talk about slow basketball games! Until 1937, the referee had to throw up a jump ball after every basket!
Chinese women, as well as the men, enjoy smoking a pipe. Their pipes are extremely delicate and unusually decorated.
Cigarettes, on the other hand, which caught on only in the Chinese metropolises before the advent of Mao, are less common in China today than they were 25 years ago.
For many years, the tobacco habit was bitterly opposed by the English crown and the English church.
In his Counterblast to Tobacco, King James I described smoking as "a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless."
In 1195, the Sultan of Marrakesh, Morocco, ordered that 960 sacks of musk be added to the mortar for a minaret he was building to commemorate a military victory.
That minaret still stands, and the fragrance of the musk can be perceived today.
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