American toothpickers
An Illinois teenager broke a Guinness World Record by building a 17.32-foot-tall replica of the Eiffel Tower from about 20,000 toothpicks. Naperville resident Eric Klabel said his father’s career as a civil engineer inspired him to get interested in building from a young age. “When I was younger, I just got really, really interested in building things out of popsicle sticks.” He ended up building a 20.2-foot tower from popsicle sticks in 2021, when he was only 12 years old, and set his first Guinness World Record.
That record has since been broken. Guinness World Records on Thursday told Frenchman Richard Plaud that his 23.6 foot matchstick Eiffel Tower was a record height, a day after rejecting it for using several different kinds of matches and altered some of them. Plaud said he had been on an “emotional rollercoaster” this week, after spending 4,200 hours over eight years on building his model from more than 706,000 matches and 23 kilograms (51 pounds) of glue.
Eric captured his second Guinness World Record this October when he took on a project using a new medium: toothpicks. “The annoying thing about toothpicks– compared to popsicle sticks, they’re just so incredibly tiny,” Klabel said. He managed to use nothing but toothpicks and glue to build a model of the Eiffel Tower that stands at 17.32 feet tall, capturing the record for the world’s tallest real toothpick sculpture.
Big Time Hobbies
On their first date. Her: So what do you do for a hobby?
Him: I collect complete season DVDs of 90s sitcoms.
Her: Do you have Friends?
Him: No.
I needed a hobby, so I decided to take up fencing.
My neighbors were furious.
Personally, I would never go to see the Eiffel Tower in cloudy weather.
I could never see the point.
This really crashes my belief system:
Hilary Clinton spent 40 years building up her career to lose presidency to a man who picked up politics as a hobby last year.
December 29th Birthdays
1983 – Alison Brie, 1990 – Julia Levy, 1985 – Alexa Ray Joel, 1983 – Jessica Andrews
1947 – Ted Danson, 1972 – Jude Law, 1938 – John Voight, 1800 – Charles Goodyear