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At the Colombo, Sri Lanka Fort Railway Station on Tuesday, a farmer broke a fairly unusual world record when he



At the Colombo, Sri Lanka Fort Railway Station on Tuesday, a farmer broke a fairly unusual world record when he used his teeth to drag a 40-ton railway carriage more than 25 meters in

15 minutes.

According to Gamini Wasantha Kumara, the strong Sri Lankan, the previous record had been a mere 24 meters in

29 minutes.

Trying to evade a taxi cab fare, a Polish man climbed up a tree on Saturday. The man finally agreed to come down and pay after a standoff with firefighters that lasted about

120 minutes.

Whooping it up in Las Vegas was dangerous for 21-year-old British student James Cripps when he accidentally married a 26-year-old optician from Australia. Reuters reports that his girlfriend dumped him as soon as she heard about the indiscretion, a moment Cripps was able to postpone for three days, or

4,320 minutes.

The witches of Salem were officially not witches after acting Gov. Jane Swift approved a bill that cleared them off all charges last Thursday. The exoneration is a little late, by about 309 years, or

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The writer and director of the highly anticipated Lord of the Rings movie has decided to give fans a chance to pay to be in the credits. For a three-year subscription to the fan club and a credit in all three movies, the price is just $100. People can sign up until Nov. 15, or for another

10,080 minutes.

The aurora borealis, a.k.a. the Northern Lights, appeared in skies across the country Monday night, freaking out people who thought the natural display was somehow terrorist related. The beautiful phenomenon is expected to last until tonight, although it has weakened in intensity in the time it has lasted, or

17,280 minutes.

Rochester, Minn.’s very own Mayo Clinic accounced Monday that is has developed a super-fast test for anthrax. It only takes

60 minutes.

A speedy Ethiopian man not only won the New York marathon on Sunday, but also, with his time of two hours and 37 seconds, he beat the course record by almost

.2 minutes.

A Philadelphia City Councilman admitted last week that he has been driving illegally without a driver’s license since 1976, or for

13,140,000 minutes.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco spends $22,000 on homeless people every

60 minutes.

The latest issue of the New Yorker reported that Bill Clinton’s Harlem office is searching for an intern. The gig has no salary and requires a work week that lasts 15 hours, or

900 minutes.

After much trauma in Wicker Park, the cast of MTV’s “The Real World” finally moved out on Friday, but a lot of them will be sticking around for a festive gathering at the Dragon Room on the 16th, so they’re not really getting out of Chicago for another

11,520 minutes.

Marcus Allen Brown gave a Texan couple a forged $500 check for a puppy last year and, after sentencing last week, is now serving a jail term from 20 years, or

10,512,000 minutes.

Yale and Dartmouth are going to post admissions decisions online this year, totally sucking the fun out of that whole thick/thin envelope thing. How I Got Into College is a fantastic film that deals with such issues. Its run time is

86 minutes.