Lothrop Withington, Jr (right), a Harvard freshman, swallowing a goldfish Finish:Stretched The paper was read before

The paper was read before the Royal Society on 6 March 1734

This car was driven by David Abbott 'Ab' Jenkins to set world endurance speed records on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah

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Lothrop Withington, Jr (right), a Harvard freshman, swallowing a goldfish Finish:Stretched The paper was read beforeLothrop Withington, Jr (right), a Harvard freshman, swallowing a goldfish, USA, 1935. Three days later, at Franklin and Marshall College, a young man ate three. The record was said to have been set in 1938 by Albert E Hays of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), who swallowed 42 goldfish in succession.