Red Bull Stratos 2012: Finally Felix Baumgartner Pulls Off A Record Breaking Skydive

Last week I wrote about Felix Baumgartner and his record breaking jump. After a couple of cancels due to bad weather, the jump has been done now.

“Sometimes we have to get really high to see how small we are, Baumgartner is reported to have said shortly after completing the jump. I am so happy for him, and inspired.

 

Austrian extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner landed gracefully on Earth Sunday after a 38.6-kilometre jump from the stratosphere in a dramatic, record-breaking feat that may also have marked the world’s first supersonic skydive.

Baumgartner came down in the eastern New Mexico desert about nine minutes after jumping from his capsule 39,044 metres, or roughly 38.62 kilometres, above Earth. He lifted his arms in victory shortly after landing, setting off loud cheers from jubilant onlookers and friends inside the mission’s control centre in Roswell, New Mexico.

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300,000 People in LAGOS to Brush Teeth Simultaneously to Enter The Guinness Book of Records

 

Lagos State government, Wednesday, said over 300, 000 persons will simultaneously compete in the Lagos World Record Tooth Brushing Challenge in December, aimed at creating a new Guinness Book of Records in tooth brushing across the world. The state government also said preventive dental health care department will be established in the entire Primary Health Care, PHCs, in the state.

Special Adviser to Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, Dr. Yewande Adeshina, who disclosed this, at a world press conference held yesterday at the World Oral Day, said that the project will commence with the establishment of two centres next month. The current record of 177, 003 in tooth brush challenge was set by India in 2007.

Adeshina said; “The toothbrush challenge programme tagged ‘Do not wait: address your future now,’ is not just solely aimed on shattering the world record on December 5 alone, but the challenge will also provide vital information for future research baseline on oral health planning in the state.”

Ok so this sorta guines

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