DAVID ADAMS writes about the odder side of life…
• US President Barack Obama is rapidly coming to the end of his time in the Oval Office and so naturally attention is turning to what he’ll do next. Music streaming service Spotify’s CEO Daniel Ek has used Twitter to float the possibility of him becoming “President of Playlists”, a job in which he would oversee the company’s “music curation and playlists team” in the 60 countries it has a presence around the world. The job description is rather specific, calling for someone who has a minimum of eight years experience running a highly-regarded nation, is “nothing short of one of the greatest speakers of all time”, and who has a Nobel Peace Prize. No response yet from Mr Obama.
THINK BIGGER: The ice-cream sundae created in Nashville, Michigan (not pictured), was more than a kilometre long. PICTURE: Elaine Tan.
• Still in the US and Guiness World Records has announced that a new world record for the world’s longest ice-cream dessert was set last September when hundreds of people turned out to create a 1.105.73 metre long version of the dessert in the Michigan town of Nashville. The record, which broke one set by another Michigan town just a few months before, apparently took (forgive the US measurements) 852 gallons of vanilla icecream, 36 gallons of chocolate syrup, 56 gallons of strawberries, 172 cans of whipped cream, and 7,200 cherries to set. Tasty.
• A man in Germany woke up after a sleep only to find his front door had been bricked over. The BBC reported that police, which are treating the incident as a crime, were baffled over the motive and are searching for several people with damage to the property in Mainhausen estimated to be in the hundreds of euros.
