Record-Breaking PR Stunt Ends in Citywide Chaos

On the Assembly Line

"It was like an assembly line, non-stop," said Mandy Basel, a volunteer who was 16 at the time. "I was a tier. I was not a very good tier before the event, but after a while, I could do it with my eyes closed. It didn’t take long to get good at it. And fast—20 seconds a balloon."

The More You Know

Mount Everest is bigger now than the last time it was measured.
If you take all the letters from the word "wizard" and swap them with opposite letters (a->z, b->y), it spells wizard backwards.
Eight of the ten largest statues in the world are of Buddhas.
Tarantula bites are about as painful as bee stings.

Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.