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goobster  ·  3055 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The L.E.D. Quandary: Why There’s No Such Thing as “Built to Last"

Irrelevant to the story or the premise of the article, this has to be the most tortured use of punctuation in a sentence ever:

    The bulb has been on almost continuously since 1901, he said; in 2015, it surpassed a million hours in service, making it, according to Guinness World Records, the longest-burning in the world.