On November 23, 1942, the S.S. Lomond, an English merchant vessel, was torpedoed in the South Atlantic.
The explosion killed all but one man-25-year-old Poon Lim. After being catapulted off the deck by the blast, Lim grabbed hold of a drifting life raft and began one of the most extraordinary feats of survival in history.
Lim spent 133 days on the exposed raft before being rescued, catching fish and sea gulls for his meals.
http://amazingfactsworld.com/who-survived-for-133-days-aboard-a-raft
Modern timepieces are electric, self-winding, magnetic, solar-cell-powered, etc.
The most accurate time-measuring device of all is the system of twin atomic hydrogen masers installed at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in 1964. It is accurate to within one second per 1,700,000 years.
One of the strangest land vehicles ever devised was the marsh buggy, an enormous four-wheeled contraption designed by the Gulf Oil Company to traverse the treacherous Louisiana bayous in search of mineral deposits.
Looking like a giant's roller skate, the marsh buggy had wheels 10 feet tall mounted on an ordinary automobile frame.
Cycling Circuit
The most ambitious cycling venture ever attempted by man was undertaken by Thomas Stevens in 1884.
Leaving California in April, the young San Franciscan crossed the United States on his bike, sailed for Europe, resumed his bicycle travel across Europe and Asia, and sailed across the Pacific, arriving back in San Francisco less than three years after he had set off.
Stevens had actually ridden around the world on a bicycle!
Johann Heinrich Karl Thieme, of Aldenburg, Germany, dug an estimated 23,311 graves during his 50-year career as grave digger.
In 1826, Thieme's understudy had to dig his master's grave.
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