most craziest facts

In 1971 a Soviet rig was drilling in Derweze, Turkmenistan when the geologists tapped into a cavern filled with natural gas. Before they could further drill, they needed to clear the cavern. The next logical step was to burn off the gas. The experts thought the fire would burn for a few days max, but the fire has been burning for over 40 years!

The Drina River runs the border between Bosnia Harzegovina and Serbia. The Drina is the main kayaking and rafting attraction of the Balkans. When you go on a river trip, you expect to see beautiful pastoral countryside. What you don't expect to see is an oddly placed house in the middle of the river! The house was built in 1968 by kids who needed a place to sunbathe.

A 70mph gust of wind can be very powerful, particularly if you are 6lb pound pup. Little Tinker Bell joined her pet parents for a lovely Saturday morning of flea market shopping and was standing on a platform trailer when a 70mph wind whisked her away! Tinker was later found one mile away from she was blown away. Believe it or not!

Jean-Yves Blondeau is a rolling daredevil and also a creator of the 32-wheel roller suit known as theBuggy Rollin. Blondeau rides his wheel suit down some of the most treacherous streets in the world. His most recent stunt took him down Tianmen Mountain, in Zhangjiajie, China— a steep 6-mile road that consists of no less than 99 hairpin turns! He can reach speeds of upto 70mph.

A football swept away by last year's tsunami and found on a remote Alaskan island is to be returned after its teenage Japanese owner was identified. Sixteen-year-old Misaki Murakami's name was written on the ball that was swept out to sea in March 2011. He lives in the town of Rikuzen-takata, which was very badly hit by the tsunami. David Baxter found it a year later on Alaska's Middleton Island, 70 miles (112km) from the mainland.

The Carbrook Golf Club, in Brisbane, Australia, has a water hazard full of sharks. A few years ago a local river flooded and broke its banks. The sharks left their home and found new lodging at the 15th hole. Currently six,10-foot bull sharks call the course their home.

You can sleep 508 feet underground in an underground suite in historic Sala Silvermine, one of the world's best preserved mine. Here you will see dark winding galleries, vast caverns and magic lakes. During its heyday, production amounted to more than 3 tons of silver a year, and a total of more than 400 tons of silver and about 40,000 tons of lead were extracted – completely by hand!

In a tiny corner of western Poland, in Gryfino (not far from Szczecin) a forest of about 400 pine trees grow with a 90 degree bend at the base of their trunks – all bent northward. Because of the uniformity of age of the trees, it is suspected this is a man-made curvature.

This is pretty unbelievable. After rainstorms and a broken sewer main in a small town in Guatemala, a massive sinkhole, 330 feet deep has fallen into the earth in contrast to 151 feet of the Statue of Liberty.

Amorphaphallus Titanium, this giant claims the title of the plant with the largest unbranched flower in the world. Its huge flowering structure rises over 8.2 feet above the ground! Due to its odor, which is similar to the smell of a decomposing animal, this behemoth of the plant world is also known as the “corpse flower”.