January 8, 2019

The Tuesday Movie @ Your Library is Mission: Impossible – Fallout and you can see it today at 2.

Stop by the Chatham Branch of the Chatham-Kent Public Library every week for the Tuesday Movie @ Your Library.

Everyone is welcome for a suggested donation of $2 at the door.

The monthly blood donor clinic is tomorrow a the Spirit and Life Centre (184 Wellington, Chatham) from 1-7.

New donors are welcome! Book your appointment now at Blood.ca, use the apps, call 1-888-2-DONATE or just walk in.

The clinic is in honour of Jocelyn McGlynn who is battling leukemia. Donors between 17-35 can also be swabbed to see if they’re a stem cell match.

There’s a new record for the most retweeted tweet ever.

There’s a billionaire in Japan named Yusaku Maezawa. He got rich by founding an online fashion company called Zozotown.

And on Sunday, he tweeted that he was going to give away 100 million Japanese yen to 100 random people who retweeted him. That works out to about $924,000, or a very solid $9,240 per person.

ZOZOTOWN新春セールが史上最速で取扱高100億円を先ほど突破！！日頃の感謝を込め、僕個人から100名様に100万円【総額1億円のお年玉】を現金でプレゼントします。応募方法は、僕をフォローいただいた上、このツイートをRTするだけ。受付は1/7まで。当選者には僕から直接DMします！ #月に行くならお年玉 pic.twitter.com/cKQfPPbOI3

— Yusaku Maezawa (MZ) 前澤友作 (@yousuck2020) January 5, 2019

And the retweets flooded in. As of the last time we checked, it was up over 5.9 million.

Unfortunately if you’re looking to get in on this, it’s too late. The deadline for retweets was yesterday.

The old record for retweets was held by that dude a few years ago who asked Wendy’s for free nuggets. They told him it’d take 18 million retweets, but they caved when he managed to get 3.5 million.

A Manitoba family has created what they believe to be the largest snow maze anywhere in the world.

A Maze in Snow, as it’s called, opened to the public for the first time on Saturday. Every Fall the family farm is used for A Maze in Corn.

According to Guinness World Records, the largest snow maze in existence is the 1,696-square-metre maze in Thunder Bay.

A Maze In Snow is larger, but the family won’t say much until after the official measurement is made February 10th.

The maze was created using roughly 300 truck-loads of snow, and features 1,300 metres of tightly packed snow walls.

— The Weather Network (@weathernetwork) January 8, 2019

Harley-Davidson’s released details about its first electric motorcycle yesterday.

Livewire is coming this fall, and will set you back $29,799 and will go about 110 miles/177Kms on a charge.

The bike will sprint from 0 to 60 mph in under 3.5 seconds, and because its electrically powered, it requires no clutch and no gear shifting, making it much simpler for new riders.

Harley says LiveWire is designed to produce “a new signature Harley-Davidson sound as it accelerates.”

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This post was written by Chris McLeod