World’s most expensive French fries

A New York restaurant broke its tenth Guinness World Record with its latest menu item: a plate of French fries that costs $200.

‘Serendipity3’, a restaurant on the Upper East Side in Manhattan, created the world’s most expensive French fries to coincide with National French Fry Day.

The dish titled, Creme de la Creme Pommes Frites, features ingredients including Chipperbeck potatoes, cage-free goose fat from France, Guerande Truffle Salt, truffle oil, Crete Senesi Pecorino Tartufello cheese, shaved black summer truffles from Italy, truffle butter, organic A2 A2 100% grass fed cream from Jersey Cows, Gruyere Truffled Swiss Raclette and a topping of 23-karat edible gold dust.

A Guinness adjudicator presented eatery officials with an official certificate in a ceremony.

World’s brightest outsized flashlight

A Canadian YouTuber and inventor earned a second Guinness World Record when he and his team created the world’s brightest outsized flashlight.

James Hobson, founder of Hacksmith Industries and creator of the Hacksmith channel on YouTube, posted a video showing off the super-sized flashlight, which shines at a record-breaking 501,031 lumens.

The Nitebrite 300 flashlight contains 300 LED bulbs. Guinness World Records said the most powerful commercially available flashlight, the Imalent MS 18, contains only 18 LEDs.

The team used a Crookes Radiometer, a tool that uses a high-powered fan to measure the power of light waves, and the intensity of the light from the Nitebrite 300 caused the radiometer to explode.

World’s oldest living tiger in captivity

A tiger living at a Texas sanctuary was declared by Guinness World Records as the oldest living tiger in captivity at the age of 25 years and 319 days old. Bengali came to the Tiger Creek Animal Sanctuary in Tyler in 2000.

‘Tiger Creek Animal Sanctuary seeks to provide a safe and secure environment for animals in need of rescue or rehabilitation while conserving endangered and threatened species,’ the sanctuary said in a statement provided to Guinness.

“Typically, tigers live 15 to 20 years in captivity and only about 12 years in the wild. Our oldest resident, Bengali, has more than surpassed these expectations with her current age!”

Rare tropical fish on Oregon coast

An Oregon aquarium said a colourful, 100-pound fish that washed up in the state is known as an opah fish and is “rare to the Oregon coast.”

The Seaside Aquarium said the 3.5-foot fish, also known as a moonfish, washed up on Sunset Beach in Seaside, far from its usual home in the more temperate waters of the tropics.

The fish has a round, flat body that made for an unusual sight on the beach, experts said.

Researchers still don’t know much about opah fish, because they are normally found deep in the ocean. The fish is being kept frozen until it can be dissected by researchers in partnership with the Columbia River Maritime Museum.

Published in Dawn, Young World, August 14th, 2021