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Highest Bungee Jump
What!?! The guy doesn't bounce up back to the helicopter?!? Ripoff!!!!
Posted By: Paul - Sat Apr 04, 2009 -
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Category: Sports, Stupidity, World Records
RIP Lee Redmond’s Fingernails
Let's take a moment to mourn the end of Lee Redmond's nails. She was the Guinness record holder for having the longest fingernails on both hands, having not cut them since 1979. However, she was in an accident on Tuesday. She's injured, but okay. However, her nails broke off.You can see her below on the Ellen Show.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Feb 13, 2009 -
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Category: Body, World Records
What is the world’s largest work of art?
It's a question I've wondered about before. (I once posted about it on the Museum of Hoaxes.) The possible record holders include:
2) A 7-mile-long pencil drawing created by thousands of volunteers on an 800-pound roll of paper back in 1991.
But there's a new challenger. An artist calling himself "Ando" created a sketch that occupies 4 million square meters of desert in the Australian Outback. It shows a Stockman (an Australian Cowboy). He calls it "Mundi Man" and claims it's the largest work of art.
Four million square meters would be about 1.2 miles in length on each side, which would make it smaller than Van Sant's eye. So I don't think Ando does hold the record.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Sep 02, 2008 -
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Category: Art, World Records
Hail the Conquering Hero!
As the authorities reveal: “'He is in a very small class of people because most people — even heavy drinkers — would be unconscious or approaching death to get up to .5. The danger with this guy is that with that kind of tolerance, you may appear to be fine one moment and unconscious the next.'
"Dasgupta said that for a man to reach a level of .491, he would have had to be drinking whiskey, rum or tequila — 6 to 10 shots — within two or three hours."
But Mr. Stanley Kobierowski also attained the honor of notching up the highest such rating ever recorded in my humble state of Little Rhody.
Way to go, dude!
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jul 24, 2008 -
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Category: Crime, Stupid Criminals, Inebriation and Intoxicants, World Records, Cars
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