Originally Posted by emjay

Yeah, there's all sorts of stuff in there. Like Les Stewart from Australia. On 25 November 1998, after 16 years sitting on a typewriter, he reached his goal of typing all numbers from one to one million - in words (not numbers) on his manual machine.

It took seven manual typewriters, 1000 ink ribbons, 19,890 pages, 16 years and seven months later, he finished with the lines.

Sad guy.