A cancer patient kid wove bracelet rezinochek to get to the moon, and got into the Guinness World Records

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In 2013, at the five year old boy Skye from Abingdon (UK) was diagnosed with cancer of the brain. Several times during the boy was treated with oxygen in a sealed chamber. And most of his time was spent creating a giant colorful rubber bracelet. He dreamed of using the band walked on the moon.





Unfortunately, the treatment has not given its results, and the boy died. But his family urged charitable organizations to help them in the completion of a huge band in memory about Skye. Many people responded to the call and sent the material for the bracelet around the world.





As a result, we got a bracelet length of 12 529 meters. Even if the length is equal to the distance between the Earth and the Moon, but it is a record, beating the previous record - 1473 m. The representatives of the Guinness Book of Records recorded the record and presented a certificate of Skye brother and his parents.

via factologia.net/guinness-world-records/598-bracelet-gums.html