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The World Record for a Mentos Eruption – a geyser created when a Mentos mint is dropped into a carbonated liquid – was set Tuesday, July 10 at Circle R Ranch during a special event for Books Are Fun, the world’s leading display marketer of books and gifts headquartered in Skokie, IL.

Representatives from the Guinness World Records certified the record-setting effort, which went off at 6:30 pm inside the Circle R Ranch Rodeo Arena where 850 independent sales representatives from Books Are Fun, a Reader’s Digest Company, simultaneously dropped Mentos into 850 two-liter bottles of Diet Pepsi. The New World Record – 791 Mentos Eruptions – beat the former record set on May 24, 2007 in Cincinnati, Ohio when 504 Mentos-and-Coke geysers were set off reaching over 29 feet with the use of a nozzle.

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