Singapore Goes For Blind Date Record

(AP) SINGAPORE Hundreds of college freshmen at a Singapore university met up with members of the opposite sex in this country’s latest wacky feat: setting up blind dates en masse.

Organizers at Nanyang Technological University paired 536 people into 268 couples who spent at least an hour together Wednesday during a single 12-hour period, a university statement said.

The previous record of 123 couples was set in London in 2001. Regulations require couples to spend at least an hour together in a 12-hour period.

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