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13 unusual facts about the World


Almost Killed Me

While not a full-time member of the band at this time, future keyboard player Franz Nicolay makes a guest appearance on the album alongside The World/Inferno Friendship Society bandmate Peter Hess.

Anne-Sophie Pic

She is the fourth female chef to ever win three Michelin stars, and was named the Best Female Chef by The World's 50 Best Restaurants in 2011.

Bian lian

Juliana Chen performed on The World's Greatest Magic television special with a brief black-light performance of Bian Lian.

Chris Bruno

He also starred opposite Anthony Hopkins in the 2005 Roger Donaldson film The World's Fastest Indian, which according to Bruno was "one of the most exciting jobs" he's ever done.

Cross River gorilla

It is one of the world's 25 most endangered primates according to the IUCN Primate Specialist Group.

Sayed Jafar Naderi

According to The World's Most Dangerous Places, Jafar was rich when he returned to Afghanistan.

Sierra Railway 28

The 28 also made a few brief cameo appearances in several movies and TV show during this time including, Overland Trail, Nichols, Little House on the Prairie, Bound for Glory and The World's Greatest Lover.

The World's Greatest Super-Heroes

The World's Greatest Super-Heroes is the name to the oversized slipcased hardcover collection, consisting of six oversized graphic novels all done by writer Paul Dini and artist Alex Ross.

Ross says that the only person he can identify with Wonder Woman is Lynda Carter, just as much as George Reeves is who he identities with in regards to Superman.

The World's Healthiest Foods

The World's Healthiest Foods is a nutrition guide by George Mateljan.

The World's Most Dangerous Magic

Dean Gunnarson-Gunnarson escaped suspended upside down hanging from a trapzee bar over a swamp of 130 hungry alligators in the Florida everglades covered in chicken meat and blood.

The World's Not Big Enough

When Du Cann presented some demo tracks to Arista Records, it was suggested that he record them in a studio with Status Quo guitarist Francis Rossi acting as producer.

Xenochrony

Excerpts from "The World's Greatest Sinner" soundtrack, composed by Zappa, are audible on both "I Don't Know If I can Go Through This Again" (from Lumpy Gravy) and "Mother People" (from We're Only in It for the Money).


Abby Mann

While announcing Mann's death, BBC Radio 4 news presenter Charlotte Green caused controversy by laughing after what is believed to be the world's earliest recording, played during the preceding item, was described off-air as sounding like "a bee trapped in a jar".

Alexander Klyushev

In 2009, he became Russia's Strongest Man and was invited to compete at The World's Strongest Man 2009.

Beijing World Park

The World is a 2004 film directed by Jia Zhangke, which was made at Beijing World Park and focused on the lives of some park employees.

Dick the Bruiser

Indianapolis native David Letterman would later name his television show's band The World's Most Dangerous Band as a derivation of Dick the Bruiser's nickname, "The World's Most Dangerous Wrestler."

Drill of Death

It was first shown on television in November 1995, when Melinda performed it on The World's Greatest Magic II broadcast by NBC.

Friday Hassler

Hassler is prominently featured in the 1975 book The World's Number One, Flat-Out, All-Time Great Stock Car Racing Book by Jerry Bledsoe.

Herbert, New Zealand

The son of Burt Munro, portrayed by Anthony Hopkins in the film "The World's Fastest Indian, resides in Waianakarua and has Burt's (now famous) motorcycle among his possessions.

Jane Little

In the United States during 1996-7, she was a producer for The World, a radio programme for Public Radio International (PRI) in association with WGBH Boston and BBC World Service.

KGUN-TV

Syndicated programming currently featured on KGUN-TV includes: Wheel of Fortune, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The World's Funniest Moments, Jeopardy!, Law & Order, Live! with Kelly and Michael and Inside Edition.

KTAB-TV

Syndicated programming on KTAB includes: Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy!, The World's Funniest Moments, and The 700 Club.

Laura McKenzie

Laura co-hosted American Adventurer for 10 years with Erik Estrada (later her co-host on The World's Funniest Moments).

Nancy McKinstry

In 2009 McKinstry was ranked number 43 on the Forbes list of 100 Most Powerful Women, on which she represented one of the two women from the Netherlands (the other being Neelie Kroes).

Nicholson Baker

The World on Sunday: Graphic Art in Joseph Pulitzer's Newspaper (1898– 1911) (2005, Bulfinch; ISBN 0-8212-6193-2)

Online service provider

Internet-only service providers like UUNET, The Pipeline, Panix, Netcom, the World, EarthLink, and MindSpring provided no content of their own, concentrating their efforts on making it easy for nontechnical users to install the various software required to "get online" before consumer operating systems came internet-enabled out of the box.

Osmotic power

The world's first osmotic power plant with capacity of 4 kW was opened by Statkraft on 24 November 2009 in Tofte, Norway.

Pete Kircher

This, in turn, directly led to Kircher's induction into a group of session musicians for John Du Cann's The World's Not Big Enough album in 1977, which was produced by Quo's guitarist Francis Rossi.

Prateep Ungsongtham Hata

In 2004 she received the The World's Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child from Queen Silvia of Sweden.

Predicament escape

Examples include a trick in which Melinda Saxe escaped from a tank filled with snakes during the 1998 television special The World's Most Dangerous Magic and a performance in the sequel show the following year in which the magician Margo was shackled in a coffin filled with rats and escaped to re-appear from behind the audience.

Scott Page-Pagter

He helped to make The Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog while he was in Ireland and is an avid composer, writing for many TV shows including Modern Marvels and The World's Greatest Magic series.

Sex: The Annabel Chong Story

A video of this event was released under the title The World's Biggest Gang Bang.

Sheri Fink

She has contributed to the public radio news magazine Public Radio International (PRI)’s The World covering a number of topics including the global HIV/AIDS pandemic and international aid in development, conflict and disaster settings.

Swami Ashokananda

"Swami Ashokananda was a brilliant and accomplished spiritual teacher in the West." - Huston Smith, author of The World's Religions and Why Religion Matters.

Tag team

Shelton Benjamin (on the mat) from The World's Greatest Tag Team has been isolated in the corner of champions Cade and Murdoch, well away from partner Charlie Haas; either of these teams can tag in the third team, The Highlanders.

Temporary Autonomous Zone

With lyrical pattern and subject matter similar to The Wild Party, the three song cycle of "Just the Best Party," "Go WIth It Girl" and "The Naughty Little Rat Makes New Friends" on The World/Inferno Friendship Society's 2002 album Just the Best Party details a story of love and loss from within a temporary autonomous zone.

Wendell Scott

Scott is prominently featured in the 1975 book The World's Number One, Flat-Out, All-Time Great Stock Car Racing Book, written by Jerry Bledsoe.