It took 12 people eight days to set up 277,275 dominoes. 272,297 of them were toppled at Wilhelm-Lückert Gym in Büdingen, Germany at the Sinners Domino Entertainment event. Anytime you think the show is over, you’re wrong, because it goes on the entire ten minutes, with some tense moments (like the aquarium bit). The part at the beginning broke a world record for the most dominoes toppled in a spiral: 55,555 of them!
Nathan Shields made a pancake with holes in the middle, then wrapped that pancake around a cylindrical mold. He sealed it with additional pancake batter and then placed a recorder mouthpiece in one end. Now it’s a playable flute that his kids clearly love.
This was more a proof of concept than a tutorial unless you have a suitable mouthpiece kicking around. And the proof isn’t all that rigorous.
The Sicilian bar in The Godfather, where Michael Corleone asked the father of Apollinia to help arrange the match, is still open for business today. Nothing has changed at Bar Vitelli since the movie’s release in 1972.
This video shows Bar Vitelli and the surrounding streets in Savoca.
In The Godfather, Sonny Corleone murders two enemies, then flees from New York City to hide in Italy. He goes to the a small town in Sicily and meets a pretty woman named Apollonia. He approaches her father at a bar and asks for permission to court her. You can watch the scene here.
The scenes were shot in the Sicilian town of Savoca. The bar is a real bar called Bar Vitelli. It still exists and remains open.
French inventor Christian Poincheval has a new product just in time for Christmas, a pill that will make farts smell like chocolate! Poincheval has been working on his earth-shattering invention for eight years now.
According to Poincheval’s website, the idea for the pills apparently came from a dinner with friends during which nobody could stop farting.
“We were at table with friends and after a hearty meal, we almost suffocated as our farts were smelly,” Poincheval writes. “The winds were not very pleasant for our fellow diners. I had to do something.”
You can buy these pills for ten euros. There’s also a special powdered version for dog farts.
Christian Poincheval is a 65-year-old French inventor who has dedicated the past eight years of his life to making farts smell better.
He claims that his Lutin Malin — which translates to “crafty imp” — line of pills ease digestion and “perfume” farts into smelling like roses or violets. Poincheval claims that his newest creation, just in time for the holidays, makes farts smell like chocolate.
According to Poincheval’s website, the idea for the pills apparently came from a dinner with friends during which nobody could stop farting.
“We were at table with friends and after a hearty meal, we almost suffocated as our farts were smelly,” Poincheval writes. “The winds were not very pleasant for our fellow diners. I had to do something.”
That horrific dinner, in which a group of several adults seemingly farted uncontrollably in a public space, inspired Poincheval to fix flatulence forever. He claims the pills are made from organic ingredients like blueberries, fennel and seaweed and that he sells “several hundred a month.”
If it has a motor and wheels, somebody will race it.
Do you have a rototiller? How fast does it go? How fast can you make it go?
If you can modify your tiller to go faster than any other and run behind it, holding onto the handlebars, for 200 feet, then you might have what it takes to be a rototiller racer.
The capital of this sport is Emerson, Arkansas. There, at annual PurpleHull Pea Festival, the champions assemble to find out who is the fastest rototiller racer.
As long as the engine doesn’t produce more than 50 horsepower, you can modify your tiller however you wish. Racers must run, not ride, their tillers for the entire race. They have to attach a kill switch to their wrists so that if they lose control of their tillers, they shut off automatically.
Shane Waller of Junction City, Arkansas holds the current record. He tilled the 200-foot field in just 5.59 seconds. That’s a speed of about 24 miles per hour.
