Kicker: Card kingdom

NICK EICHER, HOST: What can you do with 143,000 playing cards? Hmm?

A teenager from India built replicas of iconic Indian buildings. It took 41 days to do it, no cheating, either. He used no tape and no glue!

15-year-old Arnav Daga built a cityscape 40 feet long, 11 feet high, and 17 feet wide.

For accuracy, he inspected the buildings to work out their dimensions and bring everything to scale.

Now, he did suffer setbacks. For instance, entire structures collapsed and he had to rebuild.

But that’s kind of the nature of building a house of cards, right? Imagine buildings of cards, four buildings.

Good news is, now that he’s done it he set a new world record and I think that’s pretty sturdy.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: For now.

EICHER: It’s The World and Everything in It.

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