Worms
A rare kind of South American worm can devour a jaguar in seconds. (I guess they decided to pick on cats after being shat out by too many dogs)
Spaghetti Sauce Mixup
In the late 1800s, in a restaurant Geneva, a man dropped a glass jar that was filled with a special herb blend. The glass from the jar slit his hand, spilling his blood into the sauce that he was making. He served it anyway, because it was a lot of sauce (so therefore would be a waste to throw out). The guests at the restaurant loved the sauce so much that he cut his hand or upper arm daily to add blood to the sauce.
long place names
the village in north wales Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch means The church of St. Mary in the hollow of white hazel trees near the rapid whirlpool by St. Tysilio’s of the red cave.
there is a little train station little known but its name is Gorsafawddachaidraigodanheddogleddollonpenrhynareurdraethceredigion and was originally built in 1885 by Arthur McDougall (of McDougall’s flour) who made many Improvements and brought new locomotives to Fairbourne. The old golf halt was renamed Gorsafawddachaidraigodanheddogleddollonpenrhynareurdraethceredigion as an attempt to get into the Guinness Book of Records by making it the station with the longest name.
not forgetting Tetaumatawhakatangihangakoauaotamateaurehaeaturipukapihimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuaakitanarahu in new zealand.
long words are really good in scrabble but i dobt you could ever get these three.
Hepaticocholangiocholecystentersotomies (39 characters) meaning Gall Bladder Surgery and Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis (45 characters) a lung disease.
Pseudoantidisestablishmentarianism (34 characters) which means False oppositon to the separation of church and of the state.
but my fave is a place Krungthep Mahanakhon Bovorn Ratanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokpop Noparatratchathani Burirom Udomratchanivet Mahasathan Amornpiman Avatarnsathit Sakkathattiyavisnukarmprasit, meaning the ‘City of Angels’ (a whopping 163 characters), is known to the locals as Krungthep Mahanakhon. The rest of the world knows it as Bangkok, Thailand. However, it is not recognised by the Guinness Book of Records