A man creates Lego rollercoaster

A Florida Lego enthusiast used the toymaker’s building pieces to build a rollercoaster that he says could be a new Guinness World Record.

James Burrows, owner of The Brick University in Spring Hill, used more than 300,000 Lego pieces to construct more than 91 feet of roller coaster track inside his store.

The rollercoaster cars reach speeds of up to 68 miles per hour, accounting for scale, Burrows said.

He said the rollercoaster, which will soon go on display at Lego expos across the country, is expected to be certified by Guinness World Records as world’s longest Lego rollercoaster.

Burrows adorned the rollercoaster with various theme park scenes, including a miniature golf course and a movie theatre.

Teen breaks Rubik’s cube record with his feet

A New York teenager said he used plenty of maths when he set the Guinness World Record for solving a Rubik’s cube — with his feet.

Daniel Rose-Levine, 16, set the current record in March 2018 when he used his feet to solve a Rubik’s cube in 16.96 seconds.

Rose-Levine, who has set the record four times, was participating recently in a discussion about the mathematics behind his Rubik’s cube skills during an appearance at the National Museum of Mathematics.

“I started going to competitions for my hands,” Rose-Levine told. “But there’s 18 different events that they have in these competitions and one of them is feet, so I decided to start practicing feet just for the competitions and eventually I got pretty good at it.”

Hot chilli sauce mimics spider bite

For those of you who have ridiculously high spice tolerance then there’s a new chilli sauce which offers a different sort of challenge — ‘Scientific Steve’s venom chilli sauce.’

This new hot sauce has been developed so it mimics the bite of a venomous spider; specifically, those of the Trinidad Chevron tarantula’s fangs which leave victims with “muscle spasms and burning pain.”

The brains behind this new sauce are Kent-based research firm Venomtech.

You’ll be pleased to know that thanks to the Food Standards Agency, no actual tarantulas were harmed in the making of their sauce, which instead uses a synthetic poison.

Managing director and founder Steven Trim: “It’s as best as we can manage without actually tasting the venom.

“It’s a similar heat component that the venom would cause.

“I laughed it off at the time and said it was hilarious to do. Nobody has been foolish enough to try the venom.

“But we kept bringing it up when we bumped into each other over the year. We finally hit on the idea of doing a synthetic inspired sauce.”

So anyone drooling over the thought of this venomous sauce?

Published in Dawn, Young World, April 6th, 2019