The unusual facts of Fadwa Lapierre

Columnist Fadwa Lapierre offers an overview of unusual facts from various places around the world.

Here are the topics:

• An art gallery in Toronto exhibits unloved objects;
• An American woman from Ohio, who celebrated her 106th birthday in her retirement home, spoiled herself with a shot of Canadian whiskey, the famous Fireball infused with cinnamon.
• Hundreds of Lego pieces lost at sea by a cargo ship 27 years ago were found this year. On February 13, 1997, an exceptional wave swept away 62 Lego containers from the freighter Tokio Express, 32 kilometers from Land’s End. One of them contained 4,756,940 pieces, many of them sea-themed.
• In a Polish town where they wanted to break a Guinness record at the end of the year, 200 participants immersed themselves in the same small swimming pool filled with water and ice. The women’s record has been broken…
• A Japanese company had the brilliant idea of ​​replacing protective materials, such as Styrofoam or bubble wrap, with bags of popcorn!