On 14 June 2025, Croatian freediver Vitomir Maričić held his breath underwater for 29 minutes and 3 seconds in Opatija, Croatia, setting a World Record for the longest time breath held voluntarily underwater.
He did it lying motionless in a three-metre-deep pool inside the ballroom of Opatija's Bristol Hotel, watched by five judges and around 100 spectators.
The time beat the previous record by nearly five minutes.
His time was roughly twice as long as a bottlenose dolphin is thought to hold its breath, and approached the ability of a harbour seal, animals whose lungs are vastly better adapted than ours, replacing up to 90 percent of their air with each breath compared to about 20 percent for humans.
In the UK, a young girl named Olivia Farnsworth suffers from chromosome 6 deletion. This extremely rare condition renders her incapable of feeling pain, hunger, or fatigue.
There are considered to be less than 100 people alive who have this condition, and Olivia is the only known case that exhibits all three of these symptoms.
As a baby, Olivia never ate much, never slept much, and never cried. Her mother found this exceptionally strange.
However, it wasn't until 2016, when Olivia was hit by a car and dragged on the pavement, that her mother realized how different her daughter was.
Despite the severity of the accident, Olivia got up, seemingly unscathed and calmly walked back over to her mother.
The doctors examined her and found that Olivia was perfectly fine except for some minor cuts and scratches.
The doctors believe that she was able to emerge from the accident with minor injuries because her body never tensed up because she had no sense of fear and couldn’t feel any pain from the impact.
A Vietnamese man named Thai Ngoc claims he hasn't slept a single night since 1973, after suffering from a strange fever. Despite decades without rest, doctors who examined him found no physical or mental damage-his health appeared completely normal.
Image of Alison Parker taken just moments before she was shot to death during a live television broadcast.
Parker and her cameraman, Adam Ward, were fired upon by disgruntled former co-worker 41-year-old Vester Lee Flanagan II.
Parker and Ward both died at the scene. The woman who they were interviewing, Vicki Gardner, survived the shooting.
Vestsr ended up taking his own life after a 5-hour manhunt with police.
On September 30, 1999, Hisashi Ouchi suffered the worst radiation exposure in history, 17 Sieverts, during a nuclear accident at a Tokaimura fuel plant.
Transported to the University of Tokyo Hospital, Ouchi was diagnosed with severely depleted white blood cells, requiring extensive skin grafts and multiple blood transfusions.
According to local reports from the time, he was described as 'crying blood' and pleaded with doctors to cease his treatment.
On the sixth day post-accident, an expert examining chromosome images from Ouchi's bone marrow cells observed scattered black dots, signifying their fragmentation. This meant Ouchi's body lacked the ability to regenerate new cells.
His condition continued to deteriorate.
Examinations revealed that radiation had eradicated the chromosomes responsible for skin regeneration, causing the gradual disappearance of his epidermis, the protective outer layer of his body.
By the two-week mark post-accident, he lost the ability to eat and required intravenous feeding.
Two months into the ordeal, his heart ceased, but medical intervention successfully revived him.
On December 21, after 83 agonizing days, Ouchi died of multiple organ failure.
Jackie Chan risked his life for the rooftop stunt in Who Am I? (1998), sliding down the edge of a 21-story building in Rotterdam with no wires or safety rig. One of the most dangerous stunts ever filmed, done purely for the camera.
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This is 8 year old George. He lost his father and he lost his grandmother. But the story gets even worse as his mother (seen left of him) has now been diagnosed with stage 4 blood cancer.
Earlier this week Jack Grealish decided to pay him a visit, he invited George and his mother to the Everton vs Arsenal game and tonight he is seen in the stands, enjoying the game.
Football can be so beautiful.
Webcam shows mountaineer allegedly leave dumped girlfriend to freeze to death on Austria’s highest peak.
In January 2025, 33-year-old Kerstin Gurtner died of hypothermia just 50 meters below the summit of the Grossglockner, Austria’s highest peak.
Her partner, Thomas Plamberger, faced charges of gross negligent homicide after he reportedly descended the mountain alone to seek help while the weather was life-threatening.
Prosecutors allege the pair lacked proper gear and ignored deteriorating conditions, leading to a trial set for 2026 to determine the legal responsibility for the tragedy.
🚨🚨🎙️| John Terry suggests he considered SUICIDE from the 25th floor of his Moscow hotel after Champions League final penalty miss:
“I remember after the game, we all went back to the hotel and I was on the 25th floor in Moscow, and I'm just looking out the window just going, "Why? Why?"
I'm not saying if I had that opportunity that you'd jump, but you know things go through your head at that particular time.”
In February 2016, Lionel Messi was said to have bought a Ferrari 335 S Spider Scaglietti, the most expensive car in the world, valued at almost $36 million.
During the wave of fake news, Leo took a picture of himself with a toy car and posted it on his Instagram with a beautiful caption: "My new car."