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316: "Pink Flamingos"

Interesting Things with JC #316: "Pink Flamingos" - Don Featherstone of Union Products in Massachusetts first produced the well-known pink plastic flamingo in 1957. He received the Nobel Art Prize in 1996 for his creation. Parks officials in Buffalo, N.Y., reclaimed a Guinness World Records title by assembling a line of 4,280 plastic garden flamingos June 22, 2022.

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174 Interesting Things - Michelle Lesko - Fastest Time to Eat a Bowl of Pasta

The bowl had to contain 100 grams of pasta (uncooked weight) and at least 50 grams of sauce.

Every noodle entering the mouth had to be delivered via fork. You could use fingers to push noodles onto the fork, but could not lift or otherwise manipulate the bowl to facilitate noodle consumption.

26.69 seconds later, setting a Guinness World Record, Michelle Lesco easily surpassed the old mark of 41 seconds set four years ago by Canadian Pete Czerwinski for pasta eating.

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