Is she the ‘greatest’ grandma ever?

A 98Yearold Kentucky woman with more than 230 greatgrandchildren met her greatgreatgreatgranddaughter for the first time as seen in a moving Facebook photo that went viral Cordelia Mae Hawkins better known as MaeDell was seen holding sevenweekold Zhavia Whitaker for the first time at her nursing home in Kings Mountain Kentucky on February 18Along on the visit were the babyrsquos mother aunt grandmother and greatgrandmother marking a rare sixgeneration gathering of women from the same family it was reportedThe resulting Facebook image shows the sextet including MaeDellrsquos daughter Frances Snow 77 MaeDall and baby Zhavia granddaughter Gracie Snow Howell greatgranddaughter Jacqueline Ledford 29 and greatgreatgranddaughter Jaisline Wilson 19 ldquoI know itrsquos rare for six generationshellip itrsquos even rarer for all of them to be of the same genderrdquo said MaeDellrsquos granddaughter Howell 58 ldquoWersquore all girlsmdashgirl power as wellrdquoMaeDell Taylor Hawkins with her familyldquoGrandma was 16 years old when she married my grandpa Billrdquo Howell recalled adding ldquohe was 50 and a widower with 10 children his first wife died while giving birth to conjoined twins at home the babies did not survive eitherrdquo As a result the young Kentuckian had to adopt the role of a mother at a young age However it was a role the housewife clearly embraced as she went on to have 13 more kids with the same manIt appears that MaeDellrsquos kin have followed suit when it came to furthering the family tree MaeDell Hawkinsrsquo descendants all gave birth around the age of 19 MaeDell now boasts a whopping 623 descendants according to a family chart compiled by her daughterinlaw It includes 106 grandchildren 222 greatgrandchildren 234 greatgreatgrandchildren and 37 greatgreatgreatgrandchildren The matriarchmdashwho turns 99 in Julymdashhopes to meet her third sixthgeneration grandchild this summer as another child a boy is on the wayCricketflavoured ice cream in German parlourIce cream lovers will you take on this challengeA German ice cream parlour has expanded its menu with a skincrawling offering cricketflavoured scoops with dried brown crickets on top The unusual confection is available at Thomas Micolinorsquos store in southern Germanyrsquos town of Rottenburg am Neckar Micolino has a habit of creating flavours that are far outside Germansrsquo typical preferences for strawberry chocolate banana and vanilla ice creamIn the past hersquos offered liver sausage and Gorgonzola cheese ice cream as well as goldplated ice cream for four euros per scoop That he can now produce the cricket flavour is due to a European Union regulation that allows the use of the insects in food Under the regulation crickets may be frozen dried or used as a powderMicolinorsquos ice cream is made of cricket flour heavy cream vanilla extract and honey and he tops it off with dried whole crickets While some people are disgusted and even upset that he is offering insect ice cream curious customers have mostly liked the flavourThe tolltax collectorA social media user Dr Ajayita tweeted a short clip in which an elephant is seen stopping a truck in the middle of the road grabbing sugarcanes from it and feasting on them The video has amassed approximately 230000 views over 1000 retweets and over 6000 likes so far A signboard suggests that the incident happened in ThailandThe Whistle LanguageTo communicate across the deep ravines of La Gomera in the Canary Islands a unique style of speaking only with whistles was developed This is because whistles can be transmitted quickly across the islandrsquos mountainous terrain The El Silbo language of ldquoWhistle Islandrdquo only consists of a couple of vowels and four consonants but can communicate over 4000 wordsThe worldrsquos largest artificial salt mountainThe town of Herringen in central Germany is home to a heap of sodium chloride table salt so massive that it has come to be known as Monte Kali It is the worldrsquos largest artificial salt mountain The company operating potash salt mines in the area started dumping excess salt a few miles from Herringen and over the years it created a giant salt mountain locals named Monte Kali or Kalimanjaro a German punThe quietest room in the worldA Chamber inside Microsoftrsquos Audio Lab holds the Guinness record for being the worldrsquos quietest room It stops all outside noise with the total silence even causing some people to hallucinate Most people find the absence of sound deafening feel a sense of fullness in the ears or hear ringing Very faint sounds like breathing or the sound of your internal organs become clearly audible The longest continuous time anyone has spent inside the chamber is 55 minutesTalk about a work outA 60yearold Florida man bested a Guinness World Record when he completed 3264 pushups in one hour Rob Stirling said he decided to take on the Guinness World Record for most pushups in one hour male after learning that Australian Daniel Scali set the total at 3182 in April 2022 He said video from his successful attempt is now being submitted to Guinness World Records for official verification Stirling said he is now eyeing a second GWR title ldquoTherersquos a oneminute world record as well itrsquos 144 pushups in one minute and I set out to do that while I was training for thisrdquo he told a local channel