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Amnon (Marc) Applbaum, a commercial real estate developer and engineer who was appointed by the project as a measurement specialist, said, “I hereby declare that this menorah beats the current Guinness Record for the largest LEGO brick menorah, which was 4x4x0.3 meters. I measured it to be 4.5 meters high, which is 14.7 feet, by 4.4 meters wide.”

The giant Chanukah lamp is made out of more than 130,000 Lego bricks.

Yoav Gaon, CEO of Tor Group and LEGO Israel, noted, “The Lego values of creativity, imagination, learning, fun and quality were brought to life through the incredible event of creating the largest menorah from 130,000 Lego bricks, as hundreds of kids, parents and grandparents attempted to break the Guinness record.”

The menorah is standing tall at the Tel Aviv shopping mall Dizengoff Center.

Talk about pirsumei nisah.

Skiing on All 7 Continents

It’s one thing to be an avid skier when you’re eight years old. It’s another to be able to say that you have skied on all seven of the world’s continents. And it’s another to be the youngest person ever to do so.

That accomplishment comes from Maddock Lipp, an 8-year-old boy from Golden, Colorado. He skied on the final continent – Antarctica – last week.

Since he was 4 years old, Maddock has slowly been skiing his way across the world. With his family, he has skied in Italy, Morocco, Chile, South Korea, Australia, Colorado, and Mount Hoegh in Antarctica.

“Antarctica (was my favorite) because I got to ski next to the penguins,” the small skier said.

Maddock’s older sister, Keira, completed her own seven-continent skiing goal in February of this year.

The current Guinness World Record for youngest person to ski on all seven continents is Victoria Rae White, who was 10 days and 79 days old when she completed her journey in 2008.

Sounds pretty cool.

What a Hike on a Two-Person Bike

Talk about traveling together – and we mean, together.

Laura Massey-Pugh and Stevie Massey have been circling the globe for the past six months. The British couple are never far apart from each other when they travel, as they’ve been navigating the world on a tandem bike.

Together, they have traversed 18,000 miles and have ridden through 21 countries. They arrived in Berlin on December 1, the city where they had begun their journey 180 days before. Now, they are hoping to nab a world record for their feat.

The couple, who took a ride on a tandem bike on their first date, said they were inspired to attempt the record for fastest circumnavigation by tandem bicycle (mixed) after reading about fellow Britons Cat Dixon and Raz Marsden, who set the female team version of the record in 263 days, 8 hours and 7 minutes.

Hopefully, they’ll be gifted with the world record. For now, they’re happy that they no longer are pedaling furiously each day.

“It was just a massive sense of relief,” Massey-Pugh said about reaching their goal. “To finally be able to stop riding and to see certain friends and family loved ones that we’ve not seen for six months was absolutely immense.”