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Asian students fall over their new dominoes world record
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Date: Sun. Dec. 31 2000 3:22 PM ET
A group of Asian students have clinched the world title for the highest number of dominoes toppled in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Just minutes before the turn of the new millenium, a group of Chinese, Korean and Japanese students set the new record when they toppled 3.5 million dominoes in 32 minutes.
The dominoes formed elaborate patterns, including Starry Night
painted by Van Gogh, the National Flags of China, Koreaand Japan, the Great Wall, temples, gardens and pandas.
Starting on November 30, 69 students from China, Korea and Japan worked day and night to put up the 3.5 million dominoes, one by one, at about a little over 300,000 pieces per day.
As they put down the last few hundred blocks, a dazed student accidentally tripped over the edge of a flower design causing a chain-reaction, sending tens of thousands of dominoes to come crashing down.
One year ago, 53 students from China and Japan spent 47 days setting a world record of 2,750,000 dominoes.
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