“These engines were designed primarily for very large container ships. Ship owners like a single engine/single propeller design and the new generation of larger container ships needed a bigger engine to propel them. The cylinder bore is just under 38 and the stroke is just over 98. Each cylinder displaces 111,143 cubic inches (1,820 liters) and produces 7,780 horsepower. Total displacement comes out to 1,556,002 cubic inches (25,480 liters) for the fourteen cylinder version.” w/ photos

“An Arizona man has beaten the odds to win $1 million cash prizes in the lottery not once but six times. The man bought his tickets for the April 25 multistate lottery game at a QuickTrip store in Glendale, hand-picking the same numbers six times. News of the win spread round the city in the days after the draw after it was announced that only one of the tickets had been claimed, prompting players to double check their numbers. Now the rumours have been confirmed, it was indeed one lucky winner who owned all six of them. The man bought six tickets with five identical numbers at the gas station and a different Powerball for each.” w/ photos

“A father-of-two is lucky to be alive after he was shot through the neck with an arrow as he went for a walk in a park in Russia. Konstantine Myakush, 38, was on a family outing with his two daughters near a sports centre in Moscow when he was struck by the stray 20-inch-long arrow. The arrow, believed to have been misfired by a member of an archery club, would have killed Mr Myakush if it had hit him just one inch to either the right or left by piercing a major artery. Incredibly, Mr Myakush remained conscious and even called his wife immediately after he was hit to tell her what happened.” w/ photos + videos

“Beekeeper She Ping is assisted by his apprentice to cover his body with bees in order to break a world record in Chongqing Municipality. She Ping, 32, broke the world record by covering his body with 33.1 kilograms of bees (about 331,000 bees), overtaking the last world record of 26.8 kilograms of bees which was attempted by a Jiangxi province beekeeper Ruan Liangming in 2008, local media reported.” w/ photos

“Pakistani doctors have their work cut out, as they battle the odds to save a newborn baby with a rare genetic condition that left him with six legs. The week old boy is believed to be one half of parasitic twins; the other twin was born prematurely and incompletely developed, which resulted in the second child having the extra legs. According to ColumnPK, the director of the National Institute of Child Health in Karachi, Jamal Raza, said that doctors at the institute are fighting to save the newborn, which remains in an intensive care unit ward. Doctors are planning to operate on the boy and were considering asking for help from foreign experts with more experience in the rare disease, which afflicts just one in one million babies.” w/ photos + video

“WOW, Hope I never see that in real life. That is not good at all. I can see a few getting in but how do you let it get like that.” — AllMelDorman

“A juvenile mammoth, nicknamed ‘Yuka,’ was found entombed in Siberian ice near the shores of the Arctic Ocean and shows signs of being cut open by ancient people. The remarkably well preserved frozen carcass was discovered in Siberia as part of a BBC/Discovery Channel-funded expedition and is believed to be at least 10,000 years old, if not older. If further study confirms the preliminary findings, it would be the first mammoth carcass revealing signs of human interaction in the region. The carcass is in such good shape that much of its flesh is still intact, retaining its pink color. The blonde-red hue of Yuka’s woolly coat also remains.” w/ photos

“Sir David Attenborough presents this epic wildlife documentary, exploring the world of cold blooded animals. Watch this phenomenal video to see a fully grown python kill and eat a deer. Brilliant high quality images from BBC natural history masterpiece, Life in Cold Blood.” — BBC

“A Chinese motorist had a lucky escape when his mini bus plunged down a sheer drop off a mountainside road – and was ‘caught’ by a passing lorry. Yu Lin, from Nanyang, Henan Province, was on his way to collect his five-year-old daughter from a friend’s house when his bus skidded on a mud patch and careered over the drop. “I could feel myself falling and it all seemed to be happening in slow motion like a movie. I thought to myself, ‘That’s it, you’re going to die’,” explained Wu. 32. ‘Then all of a sudden there was a bump and I stopped in mid air as if I’d been caught by a giant hand.” w/ photo

“A Swiss watchmaker unveiled today what is believed to be the world’s most expensive timepiece. Hublot’s new watch, which has a price tag of $5million, dazzles with a staggering 140 carats of diamonds, all set in white gold. The precious stones cover the entire face, as well as the band, giving an appearance more akin to fine jewellery than practical accessory. Six of the 1,292 diamonds weigh more than three carats each.” w/ photos