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Who has the smallest boat?
The length of the yacht in which
Italian Alessandro Di Benedetto
sailed around the world in 2010, the
current record for the smallest
boat to achieve the feat.
Approximate length of the Kon-Tiki, the raft
Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl took across the
Pacific with his crew in 1947. The 6,900km journey took
101
days.
The number of lakes in Finland, with
179,584
islands. Water covers more than
10
per cent of the country.
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m
6.5
m
3
m
The length of the bathtub-like boat in which Sven
Yrvind, a 73-year-old Swede, plans to sail the globe
this year. The 48,000km journey will take a year
and a half, and he’ll eat 400kg of sardines
and muesli along the way.
yrvind.com
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187,888
Book characters not growing old gracefully
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Allan Karlsson
⁄
Age 100
Star of Jonas Jonasson’s
The
Hundred-Year-Old Man Who...
Not acting his age
After escaping
the old people’s home in his slippers
on his 100th birthday, Karlsson steals
a bag full of cash and embarks on an escapade
involving criminals, elephants and vodka. He
also reflects on meeting Mao, Nixon and Kim
Il-sung, and helping invent the atom bomb.
SheldonHorowitz
⁄
Age 82
From Derek B Miller’s new
thriller,
Norwegian by Night
Not acting his age
The grumpy
former US marine is living in Oslo
with his granddaughter and her
Norwegian husband when a neighbour is
murdered, and he goes on the run taking the
dead woman’s six-year-old son with him,
evading local police and Balkan gangsters.
Buck Schatz
⁄
Age 88
The lead character in Daniel
Friedman’s
Don’t Ever Get Old
Not acting his age
The retired
Memphis homicide cop finds out
that the SS officer who ran his POW
camp in World War II escaped Germany with
Nazi gold. So the wisecracking, un-PC Buck
decides to hunt down his old adversary and
claim the loot for himself.
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50
years
75
years
125
years
100
years
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