That’s Odd

A Tall Order

Rumeysa Gelgi is tall and proud.

The 25-year-old is 7 feet and 0.7 inches tall. A rare genetic condition, Weaver syndrome, has caused her extreme growth.

Gelgi’s lofty status has earned her many awards. She was named the world’s tallest living teenager at one time.

In February, it was confirmed Gelgi held two other records including registering the longest finger on a living female at 4.40 inches and the longest back on a living woman at 23.58 inches, according the Guinness World Records.

She’s also got the largest female hands with her right measuring 9.81 inches and her left at 9.55 inches.

Gelgi didn’t always have it easy. She says that she was bullied and teased because of her tall stature. Still, she said that has made her a stronger person.

“I like being different from everyone else,” she said.

Due to her rare condition, Gelgi suffers from limited mobility and struggles with stability when she walks. She also experiences difficulties swallowing and breathing.

The determined 25-year-old, who hails from Turkey, uses a wheelchair to get around and a walker for short periods.

Gelgi says that her height “provides me with easy access to high places and looking down at people from above isn’t a bad thing either!”

And that’s a tall order. bearer of the Guinness World Record for having a drink at the most pubs in a single 24-hour period.

The 22-year-old visited a whopping 67 pubs in Brighton, England, in a mere 17 hours. That’s dedication for you.

Crimp was not alone. He came with a pair of friends with the goal of beating the previous record of 56 pubs in 10 hours.

Think drinking at loads of places is easy? Think again.

“It was easily the hardest thing I’ve ever done. I completely underestimated just how hard it was actually going to be,” Crimp said.

Guinness rules required Crimp to have a drink at each pub and collect evidence including receipts and witness signatures.

“The plan was to try and keep it sober for the first 25 pubs,” Crimp said, “but that went out the window 15 pubs in. I had to mix it up a little bit. I tried to drink alcohol in one and non-alcoholic drink in another – trying to space it out,” he said.

“The hardest part was constantly

The Jewish Home | SEPTEMBER 22, 2022 Google Alert

Sam Curry was a richer man – until he wasn’t.

The staff security engineer at Yuga Labs had done some work for Google at one point and then he noticed something big in his bank account: $249,999.

The self-proclaimed “hacker” couldn’t understand why he was receiving the dough. Attempting to connect to Google took three weeks until the company admitted that the funds were the “result of human error.”

Now, Curry is giving back the money.

Talk about the law of diminishing returns.

It was a slimy trail that led German authorities to a mound of smuggled goods.

Customs officials at Duesseldorf Airport said that earlier this month they noticed a large snail in a baggage truck. Initially, they thought it was a toy, until the gastropod began to move.

By following the trail left by the 20-centimeter (8-inch) snail, they found a bag with a hole, with another snail already peeping out of it — possibly preparing for a dash for freedom.

In total, officials found six bags containing 93 giant snails, 62 pounds of fish and smoked meat, and a suitcase full of rotting meat. All had been imported from Nigeria and were destined for an African goods store in western Germany.

The snails were handed to an animal rescue service in Duesseldorf, and the meat was destroyed, customs officials said.

“Never in the history of the Duesseldorf customs office has a trail of slime led us to smuggled goods,” said its spokesman Michael Walk.

That’s a snail of a tale.

Science is Fun

That’s the premise behind the annual Ig Nobel awards – that science and the study of certain phenomena can be fun. The Ig Nobel ceremony is held one month before the Nobel Prizes are announced. Winners gather at Harvard University and are awarded in 10 different categories. The prize? A worthless Zimbabwean $10 trillion bill – and the notoriety that you’ve won something fun.

Want to know what makes scientists chuckle?

Frank Fish, a biology professor at West Chester University in Pennsylvania, won the Ig Nobel this year for researching why ducklings follow their mother in single-file formation. He says it’s about energy conservation. His specialty is studying how animals swim.

“Science is fun. My sort of a tagline is you’re not doing science if you’re not having fun,” he said.

Magnus Gers made a moose “crash test dummy” for his master’s thesis. He noted that many times cars crash into the large animals on Swedish roads and yet automobile makers rarely include animal crashes in their safety testing.

Shigeru Watanabe, another winner, researched the estimated total saliva volume produced per day by a typical fiveyear-old.

Sounds like really ig-portant concepts that were explored.