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17 Nov 2009 10:28

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U.S.: Sen. Robert Byrd is about to become the longest-serving congressman

  • 20,774 number of days – or 56 years, 10½ months – Byrd has served; he (finally!) breaks the record at midnight
  • 18,582 number of roll call votes he’s made; he’s been elected nine times and has served under 11 presidents source
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02 Nov 2009 10:00

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Offbeat: Denver’s Gorilla Run pounded its chest until it got a world record

  • 1,061 runners in gorilla costumes in Denver source
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01 Nov 2009 10:56

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Offbeat: Lord of the cha-ching! Lord Byron’s letters get record auction sum

  • $458,000 for dead poet’s words source
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29 Oct 2009 10:25

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Biz: Exxon Mobil’s unbelievable record profits couldn’t last forever

  • $45.2 billion the size of Exxon Mobil’s profits in 2008, helped by super-high oil prices; in other words, they didn’t need a bailout
  • -68% decline Exxon Mobil’s drop in third-quarter earnings; they’re still very profitable, just not THAT level of record profitability source
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27 Oct 2009 11:04

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Offbeat: Five-year-old Giuliano Stroe is the strongest kid ever or something

  • We’re imagining five-year-old Giuliano Stroe has a great future in Hollywood starring in B-level action movies with a cougar-aged Kate Gosselin as his mom. Guinness thinks he’s strong. And look at him do these flips and stuff in this YouTube video.
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10 Oct 2009 13:51

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Sports: Ryan Howard upsets 12-year-old girl. 12-year-old girl gets even.

  • give 12-year-old Jennifer Valdivia caught slugger Ryan Howard’s record-setting 200th home run ball at a Phillies game in July. She offered to give the ball to Howard, with the promise he would show up. He never did.
  • take Feeling that the potentially-valuable ball was stolen from her. Valdivia and her mother got a lawyer, and this week, in the midst of the Phillies’ playoff run, threatened to sue. The ball was promptly returned. source
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16 Aug 2009 21:33

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Sports: Usain Bolt lives up to his speedy record-breaking name once again

  • 9.58 seconds to run the 100 meters today; not bad, brah source
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06 Aug 2009 22:06

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Offbeat: Steve Misiura is currently far too familiar with The Rembrandts’ one hit

  • 84
    hours     amount of time a British man spent watching “Friends”; he was trying to set a record
  • 1,000 times number of times we’re guessing he heard that really $(^@)^@ grating theme song source
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17 Jul 2009 08:28

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Sports: Ryan Howard doesn’t know his record-breaking baseball history

  • Uh, he’s the guy whose record I broke. Not to be disrespectful or anything, but he was before my time.
  • Phillies slugger Ryan Howard • On the occasion of hitting homer No. 200, a feat that took him just 658 games, or just a hair above four seasons. He doesn’t know the guy whose record he topped, Ralph Kiner, but he should. Why’s that? It’s the third record he’s stolen from the guy who was before his time. • source
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17 Jul 2009 07:53

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Culture: People love Harry Potter – just check those box office numbers!

  • $104 million amount the latest Potter flick, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” made worldwide in its first day
  • $58 million amount “Half-Blood Prince” made in the U.S. and Canada – we wish we made this much in a single day source
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