RECORD MAKERS & BREAKERS:-
*Snowflakes: the world’s largest snowflakes fell in January of 1887 at Fort Keogh, Montana; allegedly one measured 38 cm (15 inches) wide.
*Do Not Disturb: Jean-Francois Vernetti from Switzerland has collected 8,888 different "Do Not Disturb" signs from hotels in 189 countries across the world since 1985. He started his collection when he noticed a spelling error on the one he was using at a hotel in Sheffield, UK.
*The Highest Capacity Chicken-Manure Power Station is the biomass power plant at Moerdijk, the Netherlands, which converts chicken manure to electricity. The plant consumes around 440.000 tonnes of chicken manure each year, roughly a third of the annual production in the Netherlands.
*Christmas: The most valuable Christmas card was sold at an auction in Devizes, Wiltshire, UK in 2001 for £20,000. The card was hand-colored by illustrator John Calcott Horsley. The card was originally sent by Sir Henry Cole of Bath to his grandmother in 1843.
*Halloween: English classroom assistant, Jill Drake, registered the "loudest scream" of 129 decibels, at the Halloween festivities held in The Millennium Dome, London, UK, in October 2000.
*Most People Inside a Soap Bubble: On March 27th 2006 Sam Heath aka Sam Sam the Bubble Man enclosed 19 boys and girls over 5 feet tall inside a giant bubble at Chessington World of Adventures outside London in Surrey, UK. He used a 152 cm circular wooden platform for the children to stand on, surrounded by a 25cm gap to hold the bubble solution.
*Most Feet Sniffed: Madeline Albrecht of Cincinnati, Ohio worked for foot care experts Dr. Scholls sniffing feet and armpits. In a 15-year career, she sniffed 5,600 feet and an unknown amount of armpits.
*The Brazilian wandering spiders appear in Guinness World Records 2007 as the world's most venomous spider, and are considered to be responsible for the most human deaths due to envenomation from spider bites. The genus Phoneutria, Greek for "Murderess" can grow to have a leg span of up to 10-13 cm (4-5 in). Their body length ranges from 17 to 48 mm (0.7-1.9 in).
*Most Books Typed Backwards: Michele Santelia from Italy, typed backwards 64 books (3,361,851 words, 19,549,382 characters) in their original languages including The Odyssey, Macbeth, The Vulgate Bible and the Guinness World Records Book 2002. Michele put together a 3,78 m (12 ft 4 in) high tower of the books typed. He completed typing backwards the volumes of the Dead Sea scrolls in Ancient Hebrew on 26 July 2007.
*Siphonapterologists or flea experts, recognise the largest known flea is the Hystrichopsylla schefferi, from 1,830 species. Females measuring up to 8mm long were taken from a mountain beaver's nest at Puyallup, Washington, USA, in 1913.
*Highest G-Force Endured Voluntarily: 82.6g for 0.04 seconds by U.S. Air Force captain and rocket test subject on May 16th 1958. He spent three days in the hospital afterwards.
*Cockroaches Eaten In One Minute: Retired ratcatcher and part-time entertainer, Ken Edwards of Glossop, Derbyshire, England ate 36 cockroaches in one minute on the TV set of The Big Breakfast, London, England on March 5, 2001.
*Fastest Mobile Bed: The fastest bed is a roadworthy bed travelling at a maximum speed of 69 mph (111 km/h). It was created and driven by Edd China, from the UK, along a private road in East London, on 7 November 2008 as part of Guinness World Records Day 2008.
*Most leap frog jumps performed in one minute is 48. Acheived by both James Fryer and Nick Jenkins. It was staged in Barcelona, Spain for charity, May 5th 2006.
*Most operations to look like an animal: the record is held by native American, Dennis Avner , of Tonopah, Nevada, USA; he has had 14 surgical procedures to make him look more like a cat, including facial transdermal implants to allow the wearing of whiskers, his ears surgically pointed, facial subdermal implants to change the shape of the brow and forehead, bifurcated upper lip, his teeth altered and pointed, just to mention a few alterations.
*The shortest recorded time taken by one person to make a bed is 28.2 seconds by Wendy Wall of Sydney, Australia in 1978. For two people the record is 14 seconds held by Sister Sharon Stringer and Nurse Michelle Benkel at London's Masonic Hospital in 1994.
*The most jelly eaten with chopsticks 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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