Hundreds of college freshmen at a Singapore University came together for one big "blind date."

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 in an AP report.

The tiny Southeast Asian city-state of 4 million people often organizes attempts to put itself on the world map of unusual feats, the news agency went on to report.