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Interesting Things with JC

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Review of Interesting Things with JC by the UK Legend John Ryan.

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266: "Kaprekar's Routine”

Interesting Things with JC #266: "Kaprekar's Routine” - In 1949 Dattathreya Ramchandra Kaprekar was a recreational mathematician ahead of his time. He had a passion for numbers. He was experimenting with 4-digit numbers, routinely arranging the digits and subtracting the higher digit from the lower digit. In doing so he discovered that as you repeatedly subtract the higher number from the lower number you will always get the result of 6174.

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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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