World dominoes record broken
More than four million dominoes were toppled successfully on Friday night, which is extremely dull, really. Watch the video instead.
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 World Dominoes Records - only the spectacularly bored need apply.
November 17, 2008 9:23 PM
World Dominoes Record
A new world record for the number of dominoes toppled in one go was set in the Netherlands on Friday night, when according to event organisers, 4,345,027 dominoes fell during a two-hour TV show.
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More than 85 people from 13 countries took part in the challenge, which took eight weeks to set up and was a year in the planning.
Acrobat and former Miss Finland Salima Peippo toppled the first domino whilst suspended from the ceiling by ropes.
One of the features, which included a small bird flapping its wings, was in memory of a sparrow, which was shot and killed in 2005 moments after it flew into the exhibition hall and knocked over 23,000 dominoes - almost sabotaging that year's record attempt.
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