Super-cheesy pizza pie sets record and other offbeat offerings

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What would you consider the cheesiest of pizzas?

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One that has more than 1,000 varieties of cheese, of course.

In France, a pair of pizza chefs tag-teamed with a cheesemaker and a YouTuber to create a pie topped with 1,001 different varieties of cheese.

According to Guinness World Records, pizza experts Benoit Bruel and Fabien Montellanico worked with YouTuber Florian OnAir and cheesemaker Sophie Hatat Richart-Luna on a pie that broke the record for most varieties of cheese on a pizza.

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The previous record was set by Bruel in 2020, when he made a pizza topped with 254 cheeses. That was later broken by Morgan Niquet, who baked a pie with 834 different cheeses.

In addition to most varieties of cheese, the new pizza also set a world record for largest display of cheese varieties, which was previously set at 730 by Philippe Marchand in 2016, UPI reported.

Of the 1,001 cheeses on the pizza, 940 originated from France, Bruel said, while the remaining cheese came from around the world.

LOST WALLET AT CINEMA RESURFACES SIX DECADES LATER

One can understand how frustrating it can be to lose a wallet.

Someone likely lost a wallet at the old Plaza Theater in Atlanta some six decades ago. As luck would have it, someone found it recently.

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According to CNN, workers involved in the re-modelling of the theatre found a wallet behind a wall, which was then turned over to the cinema’s owner, Chris Escobar.

Escobar said the wallet was found in an area that was possibly the lost and found area in a manager’s office, which was hidden after years of renovations.

The Plaza Theater owner said finding the wallet was like a “portal back in time.

“And then realizing that this has been missing from this family of real people who lived in this neighbourhood for 65 years, imagine if we could find them,” Escobar told CNN.

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After some online research, Escobar found the wallet’s original owner, Floy Culbreth, who died in 2005 at age 87. He was able to make contact with Culbreth’s daughter, Theat Culbreth Chamberlain, who told the Washington Post she was “flabbergasted” by the discovery, noting “it took a while for it to sink in.”

The daughter said she was six years old when her mother lost the wallet in 1958, which contained family photos, a library card and raffle tickets.

“She was in there,” Chamberlain said of a photo of her mother in the wallet. “I know it sounds kind of hokey, but she really was.”

CAN BABIES BORN IN SEPARATE YEARS BE TWINS?

Time was of the essence for a set of newly born twins in New Jersey.

On Dec. 31 at 11:48 p.m., Eva and Billy Humphrey welcomed son Ezra into the world at Virtua Voorhees Hospital in Voorhees, N.J. Ezra’s fraternal twin, Ezekiel,  was welcomed at 12:28 a.m. on Jan. 1, making the boy’s birthyears in 2023 and 2024 respectively.

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In an interview with Good Morning America, father Billy said he was “very excited” about having his son born on his birthday, Dec. 31, but he and Eve went to the hospital that day unsure whether they would be born that day.

“Having one of them at least on my birthday was a huge blessing and a gift,” he said.