m). Craig Lenday, Guinness World Records editor-in-chief said the book celebrates “the weirdest and wackiest” with this edition. Rob Hull from Doncaster, UK, is also in the book for having 571 Daleks – despite not being a Doctor Who fan. Rob Hull from Doncaster, UK, is in the 2012 edition of Guinness Book of World Records for having 571 Daleks The 49 year-old Dalek…
lt-water crocodile which measures a “mere” 18ft (5.5 m) and which is still on the loose in the Northern Territory. The Philippine crocodile lived in a river system in Agusan, a poverty-stricken region 500 miles south east of Manila, but while it was a constant threat to villagers no-one was brave enough to try to capture it. The monster crocodile was placed under observation and when it was witnes…
Medusa, the world’s largest snake weighs more than 300 lbs (135 kg), is 25ft (7.5 meters) long and it takes 15 people to hold her. Medusa, a massive python is set to slither into the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s largest snake living in captivity. The giant snake, which will be on display at the Edge of Hell haunted house attraction in Kansas City, eats a 40lb animal about o…
One Ton Crocodile Captured In Philippines. Largest Crocodile In The World. Guinness World Records 2012. Woman with the longest tongue. Harbor is the black-and-tan coonhound with the longest canine ears in the world, according to Guinness World Records. Guinness World Records has named Harbor the possessor of the longest canine ears on the planet after his ears measurement: the left ear measur…
acs, milkshakes, biscuits and cake. Pauline Potter was soon consuming 10,000 calories a day, according to The Sun, where the recommended allowance for a woman is 2,000. Her son, Dillon – himself 56 lb overweight – become her carer, cooking and bathing his mother, who cannot get out of her electric bed. “The turning point was when I had to ask Dillon to help me to get dressed,R…
for it to be a lot of fun.” The National Trust, which owns the section of beach the swimmers used, gave permission for the event to take place. The air temperature in the area was reported to be 5.5 C at sunrise. …
Jyoti Amge, a 2 ft (61.95 cm) teenager, a celebrity in her hometown of Nagpur, India, is now set for Guinness Book Record, when she will be officially declared the world’s smallest woman. Jyoti Amge, 18, hopes to celebrate being crowned the world’s shortest woman by launching a Bollywood movie career. The small teenager took the Guinness World Record from 2ft 3in American Bridgette Jo…
Don’t be fooled by the name: Skinny the cat is one hefty feline. Skinny weighs 41 pounds and he needs a home. A Dallas-area animal shelter has cared for the 5-year-old orange tabby since getting a call about a stray in a yard about a week ago. But now the “special needs” animal is looking for a loving home and going up for adoption. Skinny weighs 41 pounds and he needs a home Kim Chapin wi…
them even bigger. Five years ago, when he failed to win a place in the Egyptian bodybuilding team he swapped his home country for the USA. He now trains at least twice a day and can lift an incredible 500 lbs. The gym fanatic admits to taking protein shakes to help with his bodybuilding but puts his bulging body down to genetics – his father was an Egyptian wrestler. He has a daily exercise…
The world’s largest book has been put on public display in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)’s Dubai at IBN Battuta Mall. The book, named “This is Muhammad”, entered the Guinness World Records as the world’s largest book on February 27. It took professional workers 16 months to finish the 5-meter-long, 4.03-meter-wide and 1.5-ton book, which is estimated to be worth 2.9…
ed 116 Besse Cooper was certified by Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest person in January 2011. The following May, Guinness discovered that a Brazilian woman, Maria Gomes Valentin, was 48 days older, but she died the following month. Born in Tennessee, Besse Cooper moved to Georgia during World War I to look for work as a teacher. Her funeral was likely to be held later this week,…
Lolong, the one-ton crocodile caught in Bunawan, Philippines, has been named the world’s largest saltwater crocodile in captivity. The Associated Press reports that Lolong was caught by locals last September. On Monday, the Guinness Book of World Records declared that the 20.24 feet, 1000 pound crocodile was the largest in captivity. At the time of the crocodile’s capture, Mayor Edwin Cox Elorde…
w, but having maintained the same height of just 6.53 cm for three weeks they began to think that the pedigree pup might be able to knock Boo Boo from the top dog spot that she has held since February 2008. Measuring in at 10.16 cm Boo Boo towers over the new pretender to the throne and miniscule Milly’s carer Rivera Eizzal believes her pedigree puppy has got it in the (doggy) bag. Tiny Pue…
Paul Mason, a British man who at one time was the fattest in the world is pleading with the NHS to remove unsightly flaps of flesh after he managed to lose more than half of his body weight. Paul Mason, 50, a former postman from Ipswich, who weighed 60 stone (840 lbs) two years ago, underwent a gastric bypass after he was told he otherwise faced certain death. The man has been left with rolls of…
Antisa Khvichava, a Georgian woman who claimed to be the world’s oldest living person as she lived through the Russian Revolution, has died at the age of 132. Antisa Khvichava, who lived in the remote mountain village of Sachino in Georgia, held Soviet-era documents which said she was born on 8 July 1880, but her age was contested and never proven. The woman, who lived with her 42-year-old grands…
l investments, renewable energy use has nearly doubled, and thousands of Americans have jobs because of it. When Bryan Ritterby was laid off from his job making furniture, he said he worried that at 55, no one would give him a second chance. But he found work at Energetx, a wind turbine manufacturer in Michigan. Before the recession, the factory only made luxury yachts. Today, it’s hiring worker…
tt was controlling everything in the critical part of the wave. It was an inspiring ride by an inspiring surfer.” According to Surfer Today, the biggest wave ever recorded by scientists measured 520 metres in height and occurred in Lituya Bay, a fjord located on the coast of Alaska. The monster wave killed two fishermen as it slammed down into the bay on July 9, 1958. The Guinness World Book…
The 2011 Rugby World Cup is the seventh edition of the quadrennial international rugby union competition inaugurated in 1987. The International Rugby Board (IRB) chose New Zealand as the host country in preference to Japan and South Africa at a meeting in Dublin on 17 November 2005. The IRB Council eliminated South Africa in the first of two rounds of voting. Rugby World Cup 2011 was officially…
Insano, the world’s tallest water slide, is towering over the Brazilian landscape at a whopping 41 metres high, it is the equivalent of a 14-storey building. Insano has been listed in the Guinness Book of World Records and brave riders plummet down the slide at a nerve-shredding speed, reaching around 65 miles an hour. The plunge is so steep that although riders travel 41 metres, the whole ride t…
A new world record for the largest ukulele ensemble has been set in Yokohama, Japan, at the Ukulele Picnic Week event. More than 2,000 strummers gathered in Yokohama, Japan’s second-largest city, to trump the previous record set in Sweden. The group was watched by Guinness World Records officials, AFP news agency said, and played a song called Aloha Mahalo A Hui Ho, written by a Hawaii-born…
The world’s longest bridal train was unveiled in Bucharest, Romania, this week. To show off the two-mile gown, 17-year-old Romanian model Emma Dumitrescu took a ride in a hot air balloon as part of a promotion in the capital city of Bucharest, with the dress’ 1.85-mile-long train flowing dramatically under her. The 2,823.8-meter long ivory train, which took 100 days to stitch, was showcased…
Baluarte Bicentennial Bridge, the world’s tallest suspension bridge, was opened in Mexico Thursday, spanning a ravine higher than New York’s Empire State building and Paris’ Eiffel Tower. Baluarte Bicentennial Bridge is 403 meters or 1,322 feet tall and connects between the northwestern states of Sinaloa and Durango in the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains. Officials with the Gu…
continue the “charade” and began wearing women’s clothes. He then sought medical advice and began taking oestrogen to become more feminine and now boasts a curvy woman’s body – and a 38B bra size. Now legally recognized as female after living as a woman for two years, Lindsey said: “I was one of the popular kids in high school. “I was smart and always had girlfriends and loads of…
d for $5,000 – it’s debatable whether your average burger-loving diner will ever be wealthy enough to sample the delights of these dishes. The most expensive on the list is the FleurBurger 5000, at Fleur de Lys in Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada, which costs a whopping $5,000. Containing foie gras and a special truffle sauce, it is served on a brioche truffle bun with black truffles…
Mark Moffett, a nature-lover has revealed how he spent two days tracking down a giant insect, weta, on a remote New Zealand island – and got it to eat a carrot out of his hand. Mark Moffett, 53, from Colorado, found that giant weta, genus Deinacrida of the family Anostostomatidae, is the world’s biggest insect in terms of weight. The insect weighs 71g and is heavier than a sparrow and three…
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