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PHIL BRODIE BAND'S FUN PAGE . . ENJOY
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"It's
A Record"
Records are made and broken all the time ..
The list is true to the date posted.
NEW ONE EVERY MONTH
unless PC's gone on strike
RECORD MAKERS
& BREAKERS:-
*Largest
afro (female): Aevin Dugas from the USA is the proud owner of a record-breaking
afro. When measured in New Orleans, USA, on October 4th 2010, it had a
circumference of
4ft 4in
/ 1.32m.
She trims her afro two or three times a year, and uses up to five conditioners
at once when she washes it.
*The
Farthest Thrown by a Car Accident: is 118 feet when Matthew McKnight was
struck by a car traveling 70 miles per hour on the night of October 26th
2001 and hurled him over the highway,
the median, the other highway, and a wire fence before landing in a cornfield.
The impact shattered his pelvis, tailbone, and left leg, and the landing
broke his right shoulder and dislocated both. He spent 2 weeks in a body
cast in intensive care, and 80 days in rehab.
*The world's tallest living donkey
is Oklahoma Sam, a four-year-old American Mammoth Jackstock, who measured
15.3 hands (155.45 cm; 5 ft 1 in) tall on December 10th 2011, and is owned
by Linda Davis of Watsonville, California, USA
*Largest display of Star Wars clone
troopers built with interlocking plastic bricks: The world’s largest
display of Lego Star Wars clone troopers was composed of 35,310 individual
models and was built by Lego in Slough, England, on June 27th 2008.
*The loudest purr by a domestic
cat is 67.7 dB and was achieved by Smokey, owned by Lucinda Ruth Adams
at Spring Hill farm, Pitsford, Northampton, UK, on March 25th
2011.
*The world’s largest Christmas
present was the Statue of Liberty,
it is 46.5 meters high and weights 225 tons!.
The French gave it to the US in 1886.
*The largest drum set in the world
is comprised of 340 pieces, is owned by Pastor and drummer Dr Mark Temperato
and was counted in Lakeville, New York, USA. Dr Mark Temperato is a member
of the band called Jesus the Soul Solution and he transports the drum
set in a custom-built trailer .
*A discovery announced on October
20th 2003 of The Sloan Great Wall (SGW), a cosmic structure formed by
a giant wall of galaxies (a galactic filament), made this, to the present
day, the largest known structure in the universe. The wall measures 1.38
billion light years (1.30×1025 m) in length, which is approximately
1/60 of the diameter of the observable universe, and is located approximately
one billion light-years from Earth. The Sloan Great Wall, is 2.74 times
longer than the CfA2 Great Wall of galaxies, which was discovered in 1989.
*The Guinness World Record for the
loudest scream by an individual is a thundering 129 decibels, set in London
in 2000 by Jill Drake, from Tenterden, Kent. Her scream is as loud as
a pneumatic drill and only 10 decibels lower than a jumbo jet taking off.
Mrs. Drake, 52, discovered her unusual talent by accident on a trip to
London, where she entered a screaming competition in the Millennium Dome.
*Most People in a Bubble: On March
27th 2006, Sam Heath - known as "Sam Sam the Bubble Man" - set
the Guinness World Record for most people inside a single bubble when
he enclosed 19 boys and girls, all over 5 feet tall, inside a giant bubble
at Chessington World of Adventures, London, 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
*Paul
Hunn from London, UK, registered his name into world records for loudest
burp in the world. The burp recorded was 107.1 db which he achieved in
2008
*Cycling Backwards with Violin World
Record: Christian Adam (neé Patzig) set up a new world record in
a suisse motorway tunnel when he cycled backwards 60.45 km in 5h 09 mins
while playing J.S. Bach on his violin.
*A World Hanging
Record:
In December 2011, 37-year-old Suthakaran Sivagnanathurai, a Sri Lankan
refugee, tied his hair into a hang rig which he used to suspend himself
from an elevated pole. He was suspended by his long, black locks for an
astonishing 23 minutes and 24 seconds at Sherwood Uniting Church in Queensland,
Australia, setting a new Guinness world record. (May 2012)
*The World's Highest Bunny Hop on
a Bicycle: Benito
Ros of Spain achieved the highest bunny hop on a bicycle of 1.42 m / 4
ft 8 in at the 2009 "bike the rock" festival, Heubach, Germany,
on May 17th 2009 (April
2012)
*Two Lifting World Records: The
heaviest weight lifted by nipples is 31.9 kg / 70.5 lb and was achieved
by Sage Werbock aka "The Great Nippulini" in Hulmeville, Pennsylvania,
USA on Sept 26th 2009 and The greatest weight lifted with a human tongue
is 12.5 kg /27 lb 8.96 oz by Thom as Blackthorne from the UK. who lifted
the weight hooked through his tongue on the set of El Show Olímpico,
in Mexico City, on August 1st 2008 (March
2012)
*The World's Longest Domestic Cat:
the longest cat is a 5-year-old Maine Coon named Stewie, he measures 48.5
inches from the tip of his nose to the tip of his tail bone. Stewie is
owned by Robin Hendrickson and Erik Brandsness, from Reno, Nevada, in
the U.S.A. . Just
for comparison, the average cat spans 18 inches!! (Feb 2012)
*The World’s
Strongest Beer: The product claimed to be the strongest beer made is The
End of History, a 55% Belgian ale, made by BrewDog in 2010. The same company
had previously made Sink The Bismarck!, a 41% abv IPA, and Tactical Nuclear
Penguin, a 32% abv Imperial Stout. Each of these beers are made using
the eisbock method of fractional freezing, in which a strong ale is partially
frozen and the ice is repeatedly removed, until the desired strength is
reached, a process that may class the product as spirits rather than beer.
(Jan 2012)
*The Most Mousetraps released on
the Tongue in a Minute: Canadian Joshuah Hoover aka Sweet Pepper Klopek
holds this record when he released 40 mousetraps on his tongue in one
minute on the set of Lo Show del Record, Milan Italy on April 14th 2011
(Dec 2011)
*The world's biggest onion: Peter
Glazebrook, a 67-year-old retired chartered surveyor, took this record
at the 2011 Harrogate Autumn Flower Show, UK. The monster onion tipped
the scales at 17lbs 15 and a half ounces. Peter has broken ten world records
in his 30 years of gardening. (Nov 2011)
*Most T-shirts Worn At Once: The
record is 227 and was achieved by Jef Van Dijck in an attempt organized
by Unizo in Brecht, Belgium, on April 24th 2008. (October
2011)
*Heaviest weight pulled with eye
sockets: The heaviest weight pulled with the eye sockets is 411.65 kilograms/
907 pounds and was achieved by The Space Cowboy, aka Chayne Hultgren of
Australia, on the set of “Lo Show Dei Record” in Milan, Italy
- April 25th 2009
(September 2011)
*World’s
Greatest Miser:
It is said Hetty Green
is World’s Greatest Miser, she was a very rich woman, she was once
the richest woman in the world. Hetty was mainly interested in business,
and there are many tales about her stinginess. She never turned on the
heat nor used hot water. She wore one old black dress and undergarments
that she changed only after they had been worn out. She did not wash her
hands and rode an old carriage. She ate mostly pies that cost fifteen
cents. One tale claims that she spent a whole night looking for a lost
stamp worth two cents. When Hettie’s son Ned broke his leg, he had
to have it amputated because Hettie delayed treatment while insisting
on finding free medical care!
(August 2011)
*Longest
hospital trolley stay: Tony Collins from the UK spent 77 hours and 30
minutes on a hospital trolley waiting for a bed at the Princess Margaret
Hospital, Swindon, UK, between February 24 and 27, 2001. Tony, a diabetic,
had contracted a virus and although he was taken in at 3 pm on the Saturday,
it wasn't until 8.30 pm on the Tuesday that a bed became available for
him
(July 2011)
*World’s biggest playing cards
house: American
architect Bryan
Berg, has broke his own record by building the largest house of free-standing
playing cards in May 2010. He successfully created a replica of the Venetian
Macau from 218,792 cards. The breath-taking creation residing inside the
Venetian itself took 44 days and 4,051 decks of cards to complete.
(June 2011)
*The world's most beer steins carried
over 40 meters: this was achieved by 19 year old Anita Schwarz in Mesenich,
Germany, when she carried a stack of 16 full beer steins in both hands
over a distance 131 feet, 3 inches on Nov. 9th 2008, in celebration of
Guinness World Records Day
(May 2011)
* The world's most sweary No.1 hit:
American R&B singer Eamon earned a listing on the Guinness World Records
for "the most expletives in a No.1 song", with 33 in his 2004
hit "Fuck It (I Don't Want You Back)". It reached No.1 in 8
countries ~ Britain, Australia, Italy, Denmark, New Zealand, Germany,
Holland and Ireland, but only reached No. 16 in the Billboard Hot 100
(April 2011)
* The world's longest full body
ice contact endurance: the
longest time spent in direct, full-body contact with ice is 1 hour 42
minutes and 22 seconds by Wim Hof of the Netherlands on Jan. 23rd 2009.
(March 2011)
*
The world’s most married person:
the title goes to 68
year old Linda
Wolfe, of Anderson, Ind., who has been married 23 times. (Feb
2011)
* The world's most fingers and toes:
Devendra Harne, born January 9th 1995 in India; has 25 in total, 12 fingers
and 13 toes. It is as a result of the condition Polydactylism.
(Jan 2011)
* The world's fastest mouth: Fran
Capo is the world's fastest talking female at 603.32 words in 54.2 seconds.
That's 11 words a second! Fran actually broke this record twice, the first
time on the 'Larry King Live Show' on March 5th, 1986 speaking 585 wpm
and the second time at the Guinness Museum in Vegas (Dec
2010)
* The world's most squirty man:
The current record holder for the bizarre record for squirting milk out
of the eye is Ilker Yilmaz of Turkey, with a squirt of 279.5 cm (Nov
2010)
*
The world's most limber grey cells: Clever clogs Alexis Lemaire broke
the world record to become the fastest human calculator in 2007 by finding
the answer to the 13th root of a random 200 digit number in just 70.21
seconds using brain power alone (Oct 2010)
* The world's greatest gurner: The
Egremont Crab Apple Fair, Cumbria, is the venue of the World Gurning Championships.
The only gurner to have won the competition 11 times is Tommy Mattinson
who famously gurned for the queen in 2008. She was not amused. (September
2010)
* The world's biggest penis: New
Yorker Jonah Cardeli Falcon has officially the world's largest willy measuring
9.5 ins (24.13 cms) flaccid, 13.5 ins (34.29 cms) erect. The average human
penis is 6 ins (15 cms) long. (August
2010)
* The world's most robust throat:
in February 2010, Aussie circus performer, Space Cowboy, broke the world
record for swallowing the most swords in one sitting by stuffing 18 blades,
each 72cms in length, down his gullet.
(July2010)
*The longest distance travelled
on a pogo stick: Ashrita Furman of Jamaica, New York, USA set a distance
record of 37.18 km / 23.11 miles in 12hr 27min on June 22nd 1997 at Queensborough
Community College Track, New York. (June 2010)
* The world's most expensive trainers:
Ken Courtney, founder of the fashion company "Ju$t Another Rich Kid",
created 5 pairs of high-top Nike Dunks dipped in 18 carat gold as part
of a 2007 fashion show in New York. Each pair cost $4.053 / £2.702.
(May2010)
* The world's longest ear hair:
Radhakant Bajpai aged 50, of Naya Ganj, India, had ear tufts measured
13.2 cm when he created the record in 2008, and have now grown to almost
25 cm to the
longest point. (Ap2010)
*
Snowflakes: the world’s largest snowflakes fell in January of 1887
at Fort Keogh, Montana; allegedly one measured 38 cm (15 inches) wide.
(Mch.2010)
*The world's most gassy man; The
record for the loudest burp is 107.1 db achieved by Paul Hunn (UK) on
the set of The New Paul O'Grady Show, London, UK, on September 24th
2008.
(Feb2010)
*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. (Jan2010)
* 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.
(2009)
* 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.
(2009)
* 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. (2009)
* 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. (2009)
* 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. (2009)
*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). (2009)
*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.
(2009)
*Siphonapterologists, flea experts,
recognise the largest known flea is the Hystrichopsylla schefferi, of
1,830 species. Females measuring up to 8mm long were taken from a mountain
beaver's nest at Puyallup, Washington, USA, in 1913. (2009)
*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. (2009)
*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. (2009)
*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. (2009)
*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. (2009)
* 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.
(2009)
* 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.
(2008)
* 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.
(2008)
* 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. (2008)
* 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. (2008)
* 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. (2008)
*
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. (2008)
*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. (2008)
* 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. (2008)
* 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. (2008)
*
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. (2008)
* 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. (2008)
* 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).
The World's Most Holey
When former bank manager, John Lynch
a.k.a. ‘Prince Albert’,
retired 13 years ago, he decided to shun the conservative way of life
in favour of becoming a human pin cushion. With 241 adornments, including
151 in his head and neck, the 78-year-old now proudly takes pole position
as the planet's most pierced person in the Guinness Book Of World Records
(Hammersmith, London, on 17 October 2008).
