The Fiji Times

Claim of new world record for longest beard

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FACIAL hair enthusiast­s claimed to have set a new world record for longest beard chain during an event in Wyoming on Friday, the Casper Star-Tribune reports.

Participan­ts gathered at Gaslight Social, a bar in Casper, where they stood side by side and clipped their beards together to create a hairy chain that was measured at 150 feet long, according to the newspaper. That’s more than double the Guinness World Record of 62 feet, 6 inches, set in Germany in 2007.

To participat­e, people needed to sport a beard at least 8 inches long, according to the Star-Tribune.

The event occurred on the sidelines of the National Beard and Moustache Championsh­ips, which took place Saturday at the city’s Ford Wyoming Centre.

Steve Job shoes auctioned The California house where Steve Jobs co-founded Apple is a historical site, and now the sandals he wore while pacing its floors have been sold for nearly $US220,000, ($F488,466.00) according to an auction house.

The “well used” brown suede Birkenstoc­ks dating to the mid-1970s set a record for the highest price ever paid for a pair of sandals, Julien’s Auctions

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“The cork and jute footbed retains the imprint of Steve Jobs’ feet, which had been shaped after years of use,” the auction house said in the listing on its website.

The sandals were expected to bring $60,000, ($F 133,218.00)but the final sale price with an accompanyi­ng NFT was $218,750, ($F485,690.63) Julien’s said. The buyer was not named.

Jobs and Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple in 1976 at Jobs’ parents’ house in Los Altos, California. In 2013, the property was named a historic landmark by the Los Altos Historical Commission.

Jobs died in 2011 from complicati­ons

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 ?? Picture: (Lauren Miller/The Casper Star-Tribune via AP) ?? Men wait for the chain of their beards to be measured as part of their attempt at breaking the world’s longest
beard chain in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Picture: (Lauren Miller/The Casper Star-Tribune via AP) Men wait for the chain of their beards to be measured as part of their attempt at breaking the world’s longest beard chain in the Guinness Book of World Records.

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