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Interesting Things with JC
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Episodes vary in duration from 30 seconds to 8 minutes.
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513: "World's Largest Human Hairball"
Interesting Things with JC #513: "World's Largest Human Hairball" named Hoss breaks world record weighing in at 102.12 kg/225.13 lbs & is recognized by Ripley's and Guinness.
502: "Largest Recorded Snowflake"
Interesting Things with JC #502: "Largest Recorded Snowflake" fell in Montana in 1887 and was reportedly 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick. (38x20cm)!!!
427: "Roy Hamilton"
Interesting Things with JC #427: "Roy Hamilton" infused the Great American Songbook with soul by fusing semi-classical technique with passionate traditional black gospel. Many singers covered his 1955 hit "Unchained Melody."
387: "The Longest Field Goal"
Interesting Things with JC #387: "The Longest Field Goal" - In a 1976 matchup between Abilene Christian University and East Texas State University, which is now Texas A&M, Swedish college kicker Ove Johansson established the record for the longest field goal in football history at 69 yards.
273: "Bald Eagles Nest"
Interesting Things with JC #273: "Bald Eagles Nest" can be spotted from a distance due to its large size. When it comes to nest size, the Bald Eagle holds the world’s record as the largest tree nest ever recorded, not only for a bird but also for any animal.
The largest Bald Eagle nest on record was in St. Petersburg, Florida. It was 10 feet in diameter and 20 feet tall!
207 - Interesting Things: Restaurant Chiggeri
If you visit the Restaurant Chiggeri in the city of Luxembourg, you can take your pick from more than 2,200 different wines. A professional connoisseur is on-site to guide you with what food is best paired with each wine. The majority of the wines on the menu having been there for more than six months. The wine menu is said to resemble a telephone book!
202 - Interesting Things: George Nissen and The Trampoline
March 6, 1945, George Nissen of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, received a patent for the first modern trampoline. He sold so many trampolines to the military, to help pilots experience weightlessness, that he had to postpone his enlistment in World War II to fulfill the orders. Interestingly, trampoline only became an Olympic sport during the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
199 - Interesting Things: USS Nautilus
On March 3rd 1980, the first nuclear submarine and the first vessel to go to the North Pole, the USS Nautilus was decommissioned. The Submarine was the sixth vessel of the US Navy to bear the name. The Nautilus was in active naval service from 1954 to 1980 and was the 571st submarine in the fleet.
188 - Interesting Things: DAYTONA Beach Racing
Daytona Beach Road Course was a race track that was instrumental in the formation of NASCAR. It originally became famous as the location where fifteen world land speed records were set. Daytona Beach's wide beach and smoothly packed sands at low tide were opened to drivers for many years.
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.