Amazing Facts: 12/15/10

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World Longest Line of Human Mattress Dominoes Guinness Record 2010

IT MIGHT be a town best known for having one of the world's biggest grain storage facilities, but Merredin broke a more unusual record on Saturday.

And to do so, it proved that the strength of a small community can outdo one of the world’s biggest and best-known cities.

At the Merredin and Districts Agricultural Show on Saturday, Merredin broke the world record for the longest line of human mattress dominoes.

In order to break the record, 374 people stood in a line, each holding single inner-spring mattresses, smashing the previous world record of 344 set by Dubai just weeks ago.

Federal MP for Kalgoorlie Barry Haase and City of Canning mayor Bruce Mason were honorary guests at the event and acted as the official judges.

GWN’s Doopa Dog started the domino effect by pushing the first person backwards onto the person behind and the rest toppled one after another.

The first person in the line was a representative from Collgar Wind Farm, which was a major sponsor of the event.

Organisers drove around in buggies to film the successful domino tumble and the video will be submitted to the Guinness World Records, with their official approval of the record expected to be confirmed within a week.

The record has been the subject of almost feverish activity in recent months.When Merredin Show organisers first floated the idea in September, the record was 122. But it reached almost stratospheric levels in February when a mattress company in Dubai got in on the act with 344 of its employees and mattresses setting the new record.

Luckily for Merredin and thanks to mattress suppliers from as far afield as Esperance and Perth, there were more than enough inner-springs to beat Dubai.China Southern Airlines, Merredin Residential College and various mattress retailers also donated mattresses to help achieve the amazing feat.

One of the show’s organisers Martin Morris said he was very happy with the achievement.“The good part was it wasn’t just one organisation doing it,” he said.

Most Number of Human Dominoes Toppled World Records set by Blue Peter

Blue Peter presenter, Helen Skelton, BBC weather girl Laura Tobin and BBC News presenter Tim Willcox all took part in the record-breaking feat.

The game involves dominoes substituted with mattresses held by participants who each take it in turn to collapse backwards.

A team of Guinness World Record officials was also present to adjudicate. In order to break the record each mattress needed to "touch the one behind it and there needed to be a consecutive chain of toppling mattresses", a spokesman said.

The event began outside the BBC Television studios but ended inside. The mattresses were donated to Cancer Research following the record attempt.

The existing record was 80 mattresses set in Sydney by a mattress company in August earlier this year.

In July this year a video of staff at Bensons for Beds in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, attempting to break the record became a big hit on YouTube .

The members of staff set up 41 mattresses across the warehouse.

Mattress dominoes is thought to have began as an American college pastime but has become increasingly popular in the UK.

Julie Flitter, administration manager at Tewkesbury Home Distribution Centre who organised the stunt, said: ‘We contacted the Guinness Book of Records, and apparently there is no official world record as yet – so we submitted details of our attempt and we’re just awaiting confirmation that we’ve set it.’

Inside The Tihar Jail - Largest Complex of Prisons in South Asia!

Tihar Prisons, also called Tihar Jail and Tihar Ashram, is the largest complex of prisons in South Asia. It is located at Tihar village, approximately 7 km from Chanakya Puri, to the west of New Delhi, India. The surrounding area is called Hari Nagar.

The prison is maintained as a Correctional Institution. Its main objective is to convert its inmates into normal members of the society by providing them with useful skills, education and rules. It is meant to improve the inmates' self-esteem and strengthen their desire to improve. Items manufactured by the inmates bear the brand Tihar.

Asia's largest prison, Delhis Tihar Jail, has taken its first step into online retailing, offering goods over the Internet made by inmates including murderers and kidnappers. The Tihar Jail factory comprises units in baking, carpentry, weaving, tailoring, oil extraction, paper-making and shoe-making.

Inmates work in the furniture section of Tihar Jail in New Delhi.

Inmates work in the paper-making section.

An inmate stacks clothing at an outlet of Tihar Jail.

Inmates working in the bakery section.

An inmate stacks up some baked product on a shelf.

An inmate works at a metal-working section.

Inmates work in the tailoring section.

Inmates work in the furniture section of Tihar Jail in New Delhi.

Prisoners make branded food and art. Proceeds go to their victims. The Tihar Factory, which trains and employs convicts, raked in Rs 11 crore from sales of its TJ brand of products last year.