Girl solves 30 Rubik’s cubes while hula hooping

Guinness said Sankavi Rathan, 11, of Mississauga, solved 30 of the puzzles with one hand while keeping a hula hoop moving around her body, beating the previous record of 25.

The record took Rathan less than an hour to break. Rathan said the record was ideal for her because she has limited mobility in one of her hands.

Auction of Lincoln’s hair, bloody telegram

A lock of Abraham Lincoln’s hair wrapped in a telegram, which provides details of Lincoln’s assassination in 1865 and stained with the 16th president’s blood, is up for auction online. They are expected to fetch up to $75,000, according to RR Auction, based in Boston.

Two inches of Lincoln’s hair was removed during his post-mortem examination after the president was fatally shot by John Wilkes Booth. The hair ended up in the custody of Dr Lyman Beecher Todd, a cousin of Lincoln’s widow, Mary Todd Lincoln.

The doctor was present at the post-mortem examination and is believed to have wrapped the lock of hair in the telegram, which had been sent to him the previous day.

A 95-year-old rides his 100,000th mile

A 95-year-old California man, known as ‘Bicycle Bob’, logged his 100,000th mile of cycling. Bob Mettauer said he took up cycling when he retired in the 1990s. Mettauer rides his bike nine miles every day, regardless of the weather.

Mettauer logged his 100,000th mile and was treated to a celebration by friends and neighbours at Casa Grande Senior Mobile Estates in Santa Maria, US. The cycling enthusiast said he plans to take a few days to rest after reaching the 100,000 mile mark, but he has no plans to quit his hobby.

Man breaks Mohawk world record

A Minnesota man broke a Guinness World Record when his hair was styled into a Mohawk that measures 42.5 inches high.

Joseph Grisamore initially attempted to break the Guinness record for the world’s tallest Mohawk in 2007, but his hair fell short of the needed height.

For Grisamore’s 2021 Guinness Book of World Records attempt, stylist Kay Jettman spent hours working on his hair with help from wife Laura and mother, Kay. The stylists said it took a half can of Got2B Glued Blasting Hair Spray to make Grisamore’s hair remain vertical.

Published in Dawn, Young World, September 11th, 2020