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🗓️ 26 March 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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At some point in your life, you’ve pointlessly scrolled through social media, watched a TV show you don’t care about, or just stood in the shower vacantly staring at the wall. But no matter how much time you’ve wasted, you probably haven’t sat on a toilet for 5 days straight or watched all of one of those 10-hour YouTube Videos! But some people actually have!Let’s delve into some of the biggest wastes of time in history!
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0:00.0 | At some point in your life, you've pointlessly scrolled through social media, |
0:04.0 | watched a TV show you don't care about, or just stood in the shower vacantly staring at the wall. |
0:10.0 | But no matter how much time you've wasted, you probably haven't sat on a toilet for five days straight or watched all of one of those 10-hour YouTube videos. |
0:19.0 | But some people actually have. |
0:21.6 | Let's delve into some of the biggest waste of time in history. |
0:24.6 | You're listening. You're listening. You're listening. |
0:29.6 | You're listening. |
0:30.6 | You're be amazed. |
0:35.6 | We've all stayed up late into the night watching TV because we just needed to know what would happen to Sansa Stark, who would win Squid Game, or just how much weirder stranger things could get. |
0:46.3 | But none of our watching habits hold a candle to Alejandro Fragoso, who in 2016 watched a butt-numbing 94 hours of TV straight. |
0:57.0 | Alejandro and a few friends entered into a bid to attain the world TV watching record, |
1:03.0 | while promoting a new video optimization software for a company called Cyberlink. |
1:09.0 | One by one, however, his companions dropped out until only Alejandro remained. |
1:14.9 | During his binge session, he watched shows including Bob's Burgers, Curb Your Enthusiasm, |
1:19.6 | Battlestar Galactica, and Game of Thrones. |
1:22.9 | But the experience was horrible, taking a toll on his mind and body. |
1:28.7 | At one point during a short health-mandated break, Alejandro began hallucinating a shopping |
1:33.7 | list on a bathroom wall. |
1:36.2 | After nearly four days of TV, Alejandro emerged victorious. |
1:40.9 | It turned out he was a glutton for punishment, however. |
1:44.1 | One year later, he claimed a similar record spending 50 straight hours watching TV in virtual |
1:50.0 | reality. |
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