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Campus Life, January/February 2003
You've Got to be Kidding
by Mark Moring
Snoozers Wanted
NASA recently asked for volunteers to go to bed for a whole month.
Researchers offered $11 an hour for candidates who would agree to stay in bed for 30 days with their heads tilted downward at a 6-degree angle. Why? Scientists were trying to simulate conditions of long-duration space flight, and to test the effects of staying in that position for weeks at a time.
And you thought you liked to sleep late. …
Muscle Mouse!
Scientists at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore have discovered a gene that will breed mice with three times their normal muscle mass. The critters grew huge muscles, especially in the shoulders and hips.
No word yet on whether they're planning a "Mouse-ter Universe" body-building competition. Oooh, what nice miceps!
Source: This Is True
Top Dog Hog
So, your Uncle Magnus put away a whopping five hot dogs at a recent family picnic. Big deal. You ain't seen nothing till you've seen Japan's Takeru Kobayashi. The guy snarfed fifty and a half wieners at Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest last summer. What's more amazing, he did it in 12 minutes!
"It was mind-boggling and a little scary and like something from another dimension," said George Shea, the president of the International Federation of Competitive Eating. "I never thought anyone could eat 50 hot dogs."
Incredibly, Takeru, nicknamed "The Tsunami," is a little guy, weighing just 113 pounds (before the competition, that is; he was up to 120 afterward). He almost ate twice as many as crowd favorite Eric Booker, a 410-pound New Yorker who finished second with a "mere" 26 hot dogs.
Big Eric won't give up easily, though. He thinks he can out-snarf Takeru some day. "The guy's good, but he isn't invincible," says Eric.
Something Foul's Afoot!
A Dutch man was recently fined almost $250 because his feet stink.
Seems the guy, Teunis Teun, had been driving people away from the University of Delft library when he'd take off his shoes. Library officials repeatedly asked him to keep his shoes on, and when he refused, they banned him from the building.
One journalist who later interviewed Teun said he had to hold his nose during the interview, comparing the smell to "a bag of rotten potatoes that had been kept in a cupboard for two weeks."
Source: Ananova
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January/February 2003, Vol. 62, No. 1, Page 20
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