RECORD MAKERS & BREAKERS:-
*The most jelly eaten with chotsticks was acheived by Damien Flechter when he ate a record breaking 180g / 6.34oz of Jelly on October 3rd 2006 in London, UK
*The farthest washing-machine throw record is held by Australian Bill Lyndon, he tossed a washing-machine weighing 45.3 kg a distance of 11ft 3ins on June 25th 2005 in Sydney, N.S.W
*The Remotest Man-Made Object: Voyager 1 launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA on September 5th 1977. As of August 2007 V.1 was more than 9.61 billion miles / 15.47 billion kms from the Sun. Voyager 1 travels around 1 million miles a day and is expected to pass beyond the heliosheath within the next 10 years and be the first man-made object to leave our Solar System
*Rubber Band Ball: Steve Milton of Eugene, Oregon, created a 4594-pound rubber band ball by using more than 175,000 rubber bands. It was certified as the world's largest by Guinness World Records officials during a weigh-in Tuesday, Nov. 21,2006, in Chicago
*Hail Stones - the heaviest: 1.0 kg/2.25lb recorded at Gopalganj Dist, Bangladesh, on April 14th 1986; the largest ever officially measured is 17.8 cm/7.0in diameter, 47.6 cm /18.75in circumference at Aurora, Nebraska, June 22nd 2003
*An Endurance Marathon Record: Charlie Wilson & Kam Ma of the UK, underwent a total of 1,015 body piercings in 7 hours 55 minutes at Sunderland Body Art, UK, on March 4th 2006.
*April 1st 2007 saw the largest Easter Egg Hunt featuring 501,000 eggs was staged at Cypress Gardens Adventure Park, Florida, USA. 9,753 children took part in the egg hunt, accompanied by their parents.
*Star Trek Actor William Shatner, on January 18th 2006, sold a kidney stone for £12,700 / $25,000 to online casino GoldenPalace.com, making it the most valuable kidney stone on record. He donated the money to charity.
*The longest jump while riding a lion was performed by Askold and Edgard Zapashny riding a lion call Michael, jumping 7ft 6ins on July 28th 2006 at the Russian State Circus
* The most rattlesnakes held in a human's mouth is held by fearless Jackie Biddy, when in New York, (2006) he held 10 live rattlesnakes in his mouth by their tails with no assistance for 10 seconds.
* The record for the largest pancake toss was 108, acheived by The Scout Association on The Blue Peter Show at the BBC TV Centre on February 20th 2007.
* "Doctor Who" is the longest running TV sci-fi series with 749 record breaking episodes to date (2007)

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