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The largest psychiatric institute in the world is located at UCLA. Good thing, considering what some local residents have been up to, according to Guinness:
On Jan. 15, 1983, Van Nuys resident Thomas Syta set the Life Savers-sucking record by sucking one for seven hours and 10 minutes, all the while keeping its hole intact.
Twenty-two tons of cocaine, valued at more than $6 billion, was seized on Sept. 28, 1989, from a Los Angeles warehouse, the world’s largest drug haul.
Timothy Roy continuously sat in a tree at the Golf n’ Stuff amusement park in Norwalk for 431 days, from July 4, 1982 to Sept. 8, 1983, setting the tree-sitting duration record.
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