Frenchman's 700,000 Matchstick Eiffel Tower Rejected by GWR

A Frenchman’s eight-year effort to build the world’s tallest structure out of matchsticks has been rejected by Guinness World Records. Richard Plaud, 47, devoted 4,200 hours to meticulously assembling 706,900 matchsticks into a towering 7.19-meter (23.6-foot) Eiffel Tower replica,