The British Boomerang Society presents Bob Reid’s account of breaking the flight duration record for a boomerang throw: “In 1989 I found myself at the South Pole in company with a research assistant, Jay Perrett, who had also caught the boomerang virus. What more natural than to throw my trusty omega around the South Pole. […]
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Judge Acquilino’s looooooong sentence
Is this the record-holder for most-words-in-a-single-sentence written by a judge in a court document? Written by Senior Judge Thomas J. Aquilino of the US Court of International Trade in a statement handed down on March 31, 2010, the sentence is approximately 540 words long. Here it is: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal […]
Too much data? Sword + laureates
One might almost think there are people who track every conceivable kind of information. Today’s evidence for this notion, from something named “The Universal Record Database”: Largest Group Of Nobel Laureates To Remove A Sword From Someone’s Throat The photo, and the action it shows, is from the 2009 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony.