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Student Toe-Licking Fundraiser Sparks Investigation
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Museum Attempts World Record For Underwear Worn On Head
By Ben Hooper
March 6 (UPI) -- A museum in St. Louis is celebrating a local holiday by asking visi- tors to wear underwear on their heads for a Guinness World Record.
The City Museum said it hopes to gather at least 314 people on 314 Day -- a March 14 holiday celebrat- ing the 314 area code -- to wear underpants on their heads for a Guinness World Record.
The current record of 270 people was set at a Naperville, Ill., bookstore in 2012 to celebrate the release of a book in the Captain Underpants series.
The museum said under- wear -- presumably clean -- will be provided to partici- pants around 1:45 p.m. on March 14, and a Guinness World Records adjudicator will be on site to verify the count.
Officials said they only need 271 people to break the record, but they hope for at least 314 in honor of the holiday.
The museum previously earned Guinness World Records titles for the largest pencil, the longest seesaw and the largest tennis rack- et.
By Edith Olmsted, Breaking News Intern
An Oklahoma high school is reportedly under investi- gation after students were filmed licking peanut butter off of people’s toes as part of a fundraising event.
Students between 9th and 12th grade at Deer Creek High School volunteered on Thursday to participate in the uniquely unhygienic stunt, a video of which was obtained by KOKH.
The video, which was blurred to protect the priva- cy of the students, began circulating on social media Friday, inciting outrage and questions from some par- ents about how the toe-lick- ing was allowed.
One unnamed parent was quoted telling KOKH about their surprise at learning about the event from their child: “Whenever she told me yesterday that was hap- pening, I had to ask her, ‘Wait, what? They’re licking peanut butter off of toes.
What?”
The video was also shared by Chaya Raichik, the cre- ator of Libs of TikTok, known for peddling conspir- acy theories and dangerous transphobic rhetoric.
State Superintendent Ryan Walters, who appointed Raichik to an advisory posi- tion on Oklahoma school libraries, responded to the “disgusting” incident in
a post on X. “We are clean- ing up this filth in Oklahoma schools. Our agency is investigating,” he wrote.
The school released a statement saying they had raised $152,830.38 for Not Your Average Joe Coffee, a restaurant chain that works with students and adults with intellectual, develop- mental and physical disabil- ities. The school district also said that all students involved had volunteered for the activities and “signed up for the games they played ahead of time.”
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