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42: Giant concrete balls
Lateral with Tom Scott
Oreos for Communion
In the 1950s, Antwerp-based company Belljica came up with the idea of putting two communion wafers together. They sold those as flying saucer sweets or satellite wafers in the US. Matthew Lunn started his new job in 1992 and screwed his shoes to a wooden rectangular board,. got onto his office desk, and then leapt off. Who had just employed him? It's brilliant. My first thought was red ball because I feel like extreme shoe nailed jump from a height is probably a thing they'd have done - but it could be anything. The body of Christ-flavour. Would you like fruit loops for your communion or Oreos? Both.
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