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August, 2004

Book of Pointless RecordsMost Consecutive Days Spent Surfing10,407, by Californian Dale Webster, who on Sunday, February 29, 1976 vowed to surf every day until February 29 fell on a Sunday again-- a span of 28 years.Energy Surplus Men today consume on average 168 more calories a day than they did in the early 1970s. Women consume 335 more calories than they did then.Excesscargot The French eat 500 million snails each year.The Long Road Home According to the Census Bureau, the time commuters spen...