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Jul 2017
45m 29s

Why Are We Obsessed with World Records?

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There’s a reason records books are routinely stolen from libraries! Learn just how hard it is to grow the world’s longest fingernails; why India’s lone records judge has the hardest job in the world, and how chainsawing apples out of your mouth can lead t 
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