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World's Largest Indoor Tornado

It's far from destructive, but the indoor tornado set up at the Mercedes-Benz museum is cool nonetheless. Using the museum's 144 air intake nozzles, they set up a smoke machine on the ground below, had air blowing in from the sides causing a swirling effect and let the nozzles suck up the smoke. The Guiness Book of World Records officially declared it the largest indoor tornado. I think want one of these in my house. [Pop Sci]

8:24 PM on Wed Oct 31 2007
By Adrian Covert
18,581 views, 28 comments

Latest by Simpsons-Movie-ruled: @ANoel: took me a moment to get it, but that was HILARIOUS more »

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World's Tallest LEGO Tower Rises Over Toronto

The title of world's tallest LEGO tower just shifted from California to Toronto, where energetic LEGO Master builders Erik Therkelsen (at left), Per Knudsen and 12,000 of their closest friends stacked up enough of the plastic bricks—more than 465,000 of them—to create a 96.1-footer. More »

1:30 PM on Thu Aug 23 2007
By Charlie White
12,948 views, 20 comments