Tricky Teasers - Freakish Facts



Set 5


Answer 4


    30, probably. He might manage a few more but he's very unlikely to eat 60.


Freakish Facts


    The winner of the annual Independence Day hot dog eating contest on Coney Island, New York, in 2000, was a 7 stone Japanese mattress salesman. He consumed 25 hot dogs in 12 minutes, setting a new world record.

The Queen of England earned herself £90 worth of loyalty points by buying 1,411 Christmas puddings at Tesco.

When Healthy Choice foods offered 1,000 free airmiles for every ten bar codes from its products, a civil engineer at the University of California bought 12,150 cups of their chocolate pudding from a discount store and got one-and-a-quarter million free miles, worth $25,000, at a cost of only $3,140.

Jens-Peter Schulz won DM250,000 in a radio contest by saying that he would give a third of it to people in the street. When banned from throwing it out of an upstairs window in the Dresden city hall, he resorted to riding along a secret route, throwing bundles of it through the car window. As well as providing an armoured limousine, 25 bodyguards and a motorcycle escort for the ride, police appealed for people to stay away.


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