Many people have heard that there is a ball of twine somewhere on the side of the road that is huge from their friends. I wanted to see if that is true and where it is.
I looked it up of google and i found out about it. There are three mabye more twine balls that are the considered the world's Largest. The first result on google was one in Cawker Kansas and another in Darvin Minnesota. the other one was made by a man in four years which I will get to later. Here is a little backround on the twine balls.
Francis Jhonson of Darvin Minnesota started this collossal ball of twine in 1950. He had it at his home and it was an attraction until he died in 1985. Another man by the Name of Frank Stoeber of Cawker City Kansas started one in 1953. His ball was smaller than Jhonson's ball, but people added on to it. The other ball was made by J.C. Payne of Valley View of Texas in 1985. H decided that he wanted to set the world record, and he did. He started his winding in 1987 and finished four years later. I could not find how tall the tallest one is now on Guinness world records .com, but I am sure that J.C's is the tallest.
I found a great website about this. The URL is:
http://www.thom.org/gallery/set/twine.html
the image shown above is of the one in Cawker Kansas. The better known one. Click on the Question Mark to view the image and another website about it.
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