Lifestyle

The world’s most expensive Stand Up Paddleboard (SUP) has been sold in Palm Beach, Florida for $27,500 at a charity auction.

John and Bari Denney, owners of paddleboard store Jupiter Paddleboarding in the U.S., teamed up with acclaimed sharper Jimmy Lewis from Maui to donate a SUP to be auctioned at a gala event for the Everglades Foundation, Haute Living reported.

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A 72-year-old Nepalese man has become the world’s shortest man as well as the shortest person ever recorded.

Guinness World Records official Craig Glenday and a doctor measured Chandra Bahadur Dangi to confirm his height of 54.6 cm (21.5 inches), The Telegraph reported.

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Travel

The world’s most expensive luxury cruise package is available for sale with a price tag of £1 million per couple.

The 124-day holiday, onboard Silversea Cruises’ vessel Silver Whisper, departs from Los Angeles in January 2013 and includes visits to 28 countries.

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Gaming Success Stories

Unable to fall asleep because of a neighbour’s noisy dog, a man in Scotland decided to kill some time by playing online slots – and won a £5.1 million jackpot.

His incredible win, from a £1 stake, is the biggest accumulator of its type in UK gambling history and the world’s third largest, according to the Mirror.

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Gaming Success Stories

A U.S. Marine who hit a $2.9 million jackpot at the Bellagio Resort & Casino in Las Vegas has credited karma for his stroke of luck.

A couple of days before he hit the jackpot, Cpl. Alexander Degenhardt found out he’d been accepted as a bone marrow donor to an anonymous patient, the Las Vegas Sun reported.

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Lifestyle

Thanks to high taxation, it’s not just the filthy rich who specially order gold-plated and diamond-encrusted Apple iPads who pay the highest price for any Apple (AAPL) product than every other consumer on earth, it’s also Brazilians, Forbes has revealed.

According to Idealo Internet GmbH, a price comparison site based in Germany, Brazil has the highest-priced Apple products in the world.

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Lifestyle

An author who has written in text message shorthand is in the running for the world’s richest short story prize.

Will Cohu’s story, Two Bad Thumbs, is one on a longlist of 20 titles competing for the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award 2012, which offers a £30,000 prize to the winner.

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A Dutch antique trader is selling the world’s most valuable liquor collection – which includes a 1795 bottle of Cognac – for a staggering £5 million.

Bay van der Bunt’s collection of 5,000 unopened bottles of spirits was started by his great-grandfather in 1880 and was passed down through the generations.

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Entertainment

Portable video games have been ubiquitous for much longer than you think – starting in the 1980’s with the popular Nintendo Game & Watch series that used early LCD technology. But not until the iPhone did gaming become something everyone – from kids to moms to CEOs – could do. With the release of Sony’s latest handheld, the PS Vita, we decided to look back at all of the “game changers” we have seen throughout the years.

Here is an assortment of machines that Let It Flow readers should keep in their collection for a multitude of reasons:

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Dining

Winter is not over yet, and we have witnessed the intense cold front that is moving into parts of the world where it isn’t even supposed to get cold at all. Before you get all up in arms about the ‘end of the world’ or climate change issues, there is a way to tackle this situation in a much more mellow and satisfying manner – with alcohol.

Why not live like our ancestors and enjoy a hot alcoholic beverage or two to warm up your belly and relax your soul?  Here are our favorites (and where to get them):

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