Playboy After Hours

June, 1962

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, on the off-chance you didn't know, is the name of an otherwise undistinguished Maori village in New Zealand. The all-time insect broadjump record, if you've been wondering, was set in 1910 by a California rodent flea: 13 inches. And, should anyone happen to inquire, history's biggest pastry was an 18-foot, five-ton cake baked in 1958 for the British Columbia Centenary (large enough, by our calculation, to accomm...