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Tag: record

Record duration for boomerang flight: 1440 minutes

November 5, 2015 Marc Abrahams

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. […]

Arts and Scienceboomerang, record, south pole, throw

Judge Acquilino’s looooooong sentence

April 1, 2010 Marc Abrahams

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 […]

Arts and Sciencecourt, length, record, sentence

Too much data? Sword + laureates

February 26, 2010 Marc Abrahams

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.

Arts and Scienceachievement, data, record, swordswallowing
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