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Quite possibly it will be. Cookery students at the Latvian Agriculture University in Jelgava (Latvia, obviously) will attempt today to make a 100m long sandwich and thus set a world record. Although there’s been no shortage of people trying to break previous records for the world’s largest sandwich, there appears to be no clear winner [...]

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Well dead and on display, at least. Celebrations yesterday, April 22nd, to mark 140 years since his birth were, on all accounts, somewhat subdued, suggesting that the slogan “Lenin is more alive than all the living!” may be a little outdated. Despite the efforts of communists both in Russia and around the world to pay [...]

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Very clever, yes. Burglar, burger. A Burger King employee managed to steal some 407,000 roubles (£9,000) from the “restaurant” he worked at, after locking the manager in an industrial refrigerator. Police were alerted to the incident, which took place at a BK lounge in northern Moscow on Sunday, after the robber accidentally activated an alarm [...]

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