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Unusual book records from the “Guinness Book of Records”
If you think that books can only be read and written, then you are deeply mistaken. You can do a lot of interesting things with them! (But it’s more useful to just read them.) Here are some examples of unusual book records.
Ashrita Furman from the USA made the fastest walking trip at 1.6 km. Not just like that, of course, but balancing with a book on my head. The journey took 8 minutes 27 seconds.
A couple of years later, he set a new record: he walked the longest distance with a book on his head – 32.18 km. The journey took him five hours and fifty-eight seconds.
Fan Dongfang from China also set an interesting record. He built a pyramid of 15 books faster than anyone, with one hand. In 16.72 seconds! And one team in the US packed a stack of books in a minute, the height of which was 229.7 cm. So, on that note, it’s time to smoothly move from sports to construction. You can also do the good old book layout – isn’t it a record? The longest row of books laid out in Great Britain is 2,263.6 m. In Germany, they did more creative – they knocked down books like dominoes. As many as 10,200 books have fallen, and all of them are the very Guinness Books of Records.
But real builders take more difficult paths. The largest book pyramid included – think about it – 70,247 books. The record was set in Malaysia, breaking (figuratively) the previous record holder – a pyramid of 63,377 books built in Luxembourg.
And the Brazilian artists embodied an even more ambitious idea: they laid out a labyrinth out of books, for which they used 250,000 books. The area of the labyrinth was 500 m2, the walls were up to 2.5 meters.
Many of these projects and records were started not at all to perpetuate their own glory, but to draw attention to certain problems, charity events and other important things.
While experimenters all over the world are setting all kinds of world records, the First Experimental Printing House in Kharkov continues to print books and other printing products of the highest quality for you ☎️
+38 (067) 543 56 55
+38 (099) 543 56 55
+38 (073) 545 56 55
www.exp-print.com.ua
Unusual book records from the “Guinness Book of Records”
If you think that books can only be read and written, then you are deeply mistaken. You can do a lot of interesting things with them! (But it’s more useful to just read them.) Here are some examples of unusual book records.
Ashrita Furman from the USA made the fastest walking trip at 1.6 km. Not just like that, of course, but balancing with a book on my head. The journey took 8 minutes 27 seconds.
A couple of years later, he set a new record: he walked the longest distance with a book on his head – 32.18 km. The journey took him five hours and fifty-eight seconds.
Fan Dongfang from China also set an interesting record. He built a pyramid of 15 books faster than anyone, with one hand. In 16.72 seconds! And one team in the US packed a stack of books in a minute, the height of which was 229.7 cm. So, on that note, it’s time to smoothly move from sports to construction. You can also do the good old book layout – isn’t it a record? The longest row of books laid out in Great Britain is 2,263.6 m. In Germany, they did more creative – they knocked down books like dominoes. As many as 10,200 books have fallen, and all of them are the very Guinness Books of Records.
But real builders take more difficult paths. The largest book pyramid included – think about it – 70,247 books. The record was set in Malaysia, breaking (figuratively) the previous record holder – a pyramid of 63,377 books built in Luxembourg.
And the Brazilian artists embodied an even more ambitious idea: they laid out a labyrinth out of books, for which they used 250,000 books. The area of the labyrinth was 500 m2, the walls were up to 2.5 meters.
Many of these projects and records were started not at all to perpetuate their own glory, but to draw attention to certain problems, charity events and other important things.
While experimenters all over the world are setting all kinds of world records, the First Experimental Printing House in Kharkov continues to print books and other printing products of the highest quality for you ☎️
+38 (067) 543 56 55
+38 (099) 543 56 55
+38 (073) 545 56 55
www.exp-print.com.ua
