FAST FACTS
You could accommodate more than 25,500 conventionally sized sandwiches
in the largest lunch box (see p.98) • The largest TV remote control (below) is
around 24 times larger than its real-life counterpart and took 68 days to build
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LONGEST MONSTER TRUCK
Brad and Jen Campbell (both USA) of Big Toyz Racing have
created the Sin City Hustler, a 32-ft-long (9.7-m) monster
truck. Measured in an aircraft hangar at Last Stop in
White Hills, Arizona, USA, on 10 Jul 2014, it stands 12 ft
(3.6 m) tall, weighs a hefty 15,000 lb (6,800 kg) – about
the same as a bull elephant – and can accommodate
12 passengers. It packs a powerful 750-hp engine, but
owing to its considerable weight the Sin City Hustler only
has a maximum speed of around 45 mph (72.4 km/h). The
titanic truck is currently operated by Russ Mann (USA).
First forensic autopsy 1302 DATELINE
As part of an investigation into the suspected murder of a nobleman, Italian physician Bartolomeo da Varignana
performs the first medico-legal autopsy. He will later be involved in other legally required autopsies.
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DATELINE 1311 Tallest building
At 160 m (524 ft 11 in), the UK’s Lincoln Cathedral overtakes the Great Pyramid of Giza to become the world’s tallest
building. Construction on the cathedral began in 1088. It will retain the record until 1549, when its spire collapses.
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Worst pandemic 1351 DATELINE
A devastating outbreak of the pneumonic form of plague (bacterial infection), known as the
Black Death, draws to a close having claimed some 75 million lives worldwide.
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BALL SKILLS
Longest tennis volley rally Most consecutive soccer ball
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DATELINE 1373 Oldest treaty still in force
On 16 Jun, diplomats from England and Portugal sign the Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Alliance, a peace deal that will
endure through countless global conflicts and many changes of government. It is still in effect today.
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FAST FACTS
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back in his mouth. On 14 Dec 2015, in Brentford, London, UK, John
Farnworth kept a soccer ball airborne for 29.82 sec
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with a soccer ball balanced
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On 22 Oct 2011, Abdul volley rebounds in 30 seconds – 28 – at the National
Halim (BGD) walked 15.2 km Football Museum in Manchester, UK, on 25 Aug 2015;
(9.44 mi) with a soccer Farnworth demonstrates the trick below.
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Worst outbreak of “dancing mania” 1374 DATELINE
In July, a large number of men and women in Aachen, Germany, break into frenzied dancing. Many
dance until they collapse from exhaustion. This medieval illness has never been fully explained.
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Ming Emperor Zhu Di orders the construction of a new palace in Beijing, China. This vast complex of some 980
buildings, today known as the Imperial Palace, requires more than a million workers and a decade to complete.
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CONTENTS
JOURNEYS FACTOGRAPHIC 106
EXPLORATION 1500–1970 108
EXPLORATION 1971–1995 110
EXPLORATION 1996–2005 112
EXPLORATION 2006–2009 114
EXPLORATION 2010–2015 116
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Oldest reading glasses 1450 DATELINE
A resident of medieval London throws the broken horn frames of his glasses in the trash heap. When
found more than 500 years later, they are regarded as the oldest known pair of reading glasses.
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a wrist leash – a useful way of keeping
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sections of the climb.
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EXPLORATION 1500–1970
JOURNEYS
1500 1600 1700 1800
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DATELINE 1455 Oldest mechanically printed full-length book
The Gutenberg Bible is printed in Mainz, Germany, c. 1455 by Henne zum Gensfleisch
zur Laden, commonly known as Johannes Gutenberg (c. 1398–1468).
108 Journeys
FAST FACTS
Magellan is famed as the first circumnavigator, but he didn’t make it all the way
home: he was hacked to death in the Philippines • The first power-driven flight
lasted 12 sec • John O’Groats is named after Jan de Groot, a Dutch ferryman
1900 1950 1970
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Oldest android design 1495 DATELINE
Leonardo da Vinci (ITA) sketches a humanoid robot. His ideas for the finished model are lost, but some of his
other drawings show a human knight with anatomically correct joints operated by cables and pulleys.
guinnessworldrecords.com 109
EXPLORATION 1971–1995
JOURNEYS
1971 1980
V 1974: David Kunst (USA, above) V 1980: +VCN[ŨU V 1983: )GQTIG /GGICP
7- EQORNGVGU VJG HCUVGUV
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is made all the more
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DATELINE 1535 Tallest suit of armour
A 2.057-m (6-ft 8-in) suit of armour made at around this time was once thought to have been worn by John of Gaunt, 1st Duke
of Lancaster, in the 14th century. In fact, it is German in origin. It is on display in the White Tower at HM Tower of London, UK.
110 Journeys
FAST FACTS
In 2011, a whale graveyard was found near the Pan-American Highway in Chile
• The North and South Poles have switched some 400 times in 330 million years
• The Atlantic Ocean is growing, but the Pacific Ocean is shrinking
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X 1986: 1P ǡ#WI 2CVTKEM /QTTQY
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VQ ENKOD VJG 5GXGP 5WOOKVU – OQTG VJCP ǡMO
the highest mountains on all
ǡOK CPF
seven continents – according ǡEQWPVTKGU CPF
VQ VJG %CTUVGPU\ NKUV YJKEJ VGTTKVQTKGU 'OKNKQ
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CMC %CTUVGPU\ 2[TCOKF LQWTPG[ D[ǡOQVQTE[ENG,
KPǡ+PFQPGUKC HTQO ǡ,CP
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Oldest botanical garden (same location) 1545 DATELINE
The Orto Botanico in Padua, Italy, is created. As of 2016, the original design remains – a circular central plot
(symbolizing the world) surrounded by a ring of water – and the site is still dedicated to scientific research.
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EXPLORATION 1996–2005
JOURNEYS
1996 1999 2000
V 1996: Peter Bird (UK) spends the longest collective time at sea in V 1999: 'OOCPWGN %QKPFTG
(4# GODCTMU WRQP VJG ƒTUV QH V 2000: $GVYGGP ǡ/C[ CPF ǡ5GR
an ocean rowboat ǡFC[U (TQO VQ JG EQXGTU ǡMO UGXGP GRKE CFXGPVWTGU CV UGC Ť VJG most solo ocean crossings Ť D[ %QNKP $QFKNN
7- TGEQTFU VJG fastest
ǡOK TQYKPI CETQUU VJG #VNCPVKE 1EGCP HTQO GCUV VQ YGUV VJG 2CEKƒE VTCXGTUKPI VJG #VNCPVKE 1EGCP GCUV VQ YGUV KP C RGFCN DQCV *G IQGU circumnavigation by microlight *G TQWPFU
1EGCP HTQO GCUV VQ YGUV CPF VJG 2CEKƒE 1EGCP HTQO YGUV VQ GCUV QP VQ TQY VJG #VNCPVKE GCUV VQ YGUV KP YGUV VQ GCUV KP CPF VJG INQDG KP JKU /CKPCKT $NCFG (NGZYKPI
GCUV VQ YGUV KP DGHQTG TGEQTFKPI VJG fastest solo row across the OKETQNKIJV KP FC[U UVCTVKPI CPF NCPFKPI
V 1998: %QPUVTWEVKQP Atlantic (west to east) CNUQ KP KP ǡFC[U ǡJT ǡOKP
RKEVWTGF CV $TQQMNCPFU CKTƒGNF KP 9G[DTKFIG 5WTTG[
DGIKPU QP VJG International CDQXG *G TQYU VJG 2CEKƒE 1EGCP YGUV VQ GCUV HTQO %JɢUJK KP ,CRCP 7- 'P TQWVG $QFKNN HNKGU CNQPIUKFG CPQVJGT
Space Station (ISS 9KVJ VQ %QQU $C[ KP 1TGIQP 75# KP VCMKPI ǡFC[U ǡJT ǡOKP TGEQTF DTGCMGT ,GPPKHGT /WTTC[
7- YJQ
C ƒPCN EQUV KP GZEGUU QH .CUVN[ JG EQORNGVGU VJG fastest solo row across the Indian Ocean TGIKUVGTU VJG fastest circumnavigation by
ǡDP
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DGEQOG VJG OQUV expensive DGVYGGP VJG UCOG FCVGU
man-made object T 1999: 1P ǡ,CP #PVQKPG &G %JQWFGPU
(4#
DGEQOGU VJG ƒTUV RGTUQP VQ EQORNGVG VJG 6JTGG 2QNGU T 2001: 'TKM 9GKJGPOC[GT
Challenge without supplementary oxygen on Everest
75# YCU DQTP YKVJ TGVKPQUEJKUKU
JCXKPI GODCTMGF QP JKU HGCV QP ǡ#RT CP G[G EQPFKVKQP VJCV NGHV JKO
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JG DGEQOGU VJG ƒTUV DNKPF OCP
to climb Mount Everest #U QH
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RGTUQP VQ JCXG FQPG UQ 'TKM
KU CNUQ CP CEEQORNKUJGF TQEM
ENKODGT UMKGT CPF RCTCINKFGT
X 1998: &CXKF *GORNGOCP #FCOU
7- 1999: 4QDGTV *CPUGP
DGEQOGU VJG ƒTUV RGTUQP VQ EQORNGVG QH -KVVGT[ /CKPG 75#
the Adventurers Grand Slam C ITWGNNKPI EQORNGVGU VJG longest solo
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CPF 5QWVJ 2QNG HTQO VJG EQCUV *G DGIKPU
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JKU SWGUV KP ǡCPF EQORNGVGU KV /CKPG VQ +PVGTPCVKQPCN (CNNU
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CFXGPVWTGT 4WPGǡ)LGNFPGU
014 YCNM VQ VJG 0QTVJ 2QNG
HTQO /CT VQǡ/C[ǡ
DATELINE 1556 Highest death toll from an earthquake
An estimated 830,000 people perish in the quake (or dizhen) that strikes
the Shaanxi, Shanxi and Henan provinces in China on 2 Feb.
112 Journeys
FAST FACTS
Oceans can hold approximately 50% more carbon than Earth’s
atmosphere • No country owns Antarctica • The ISS has 15 pressurized
modules (seven US, five Russian, two Japanese and one European)
2001 2004 2005
V 2004: 5CTCJ CPF 5CNN[ -GVVNG
DQVJ 7- ECTT[ QWV VJG
ƒTUVǡTQY CETQUU CP[ QEGCP D[ C OQVJGT CPF FCWIJVGT VGCO
6JG[ ETQUU VJG #VNCPVKE 1EGCP GCUV VQ YGUV KP Calderdale –
The Yorkshire Challenger DGVYGGP ǡ,CP CPF ǡ/C[
V 2001: The ƒTUV OCTTKGF EQWRNG VQ TGCEJ DQVJ 2QNGU Ť /KMG CPF (KQPC V 2005: 2CTM ;QWPI 5GQM
-14 TGCEJGU VJG
6JQTPGYKNN
DQVJ 7- Ť CTTKXG CV VJG 0QTVJ 2QNG QP /C[ JCXKPI TGCEJGF 0QTVJ 2QNG QP HQQV QP #RT DGEQOKPI VJG ƒTUV
VJG 5QWVJ 2QNG D[ UMK QP ǡ,CP $QVJ VTKRU CTG CKT UWRRQTVGF CPF person to achieve the Explorers Grand Slam
VJGǡEQWRNG CTG CEEQORCPKGF D[ VGCO OCVG %CVJCTKPG *CTVNG[
7- 6JKU KPXQNXGU ENKODKPI VJG JKIJGUV OQWPVCKPU
6JGǡNCVVGT NGI CNUQ GCTPU (KQPC 6JQTPGYKNN CPF *CTVNG[ CPQVJGT TGEQTF QP CNN UGXGP EQPVKPGPVU VJG OQWPVCKPU QXGT
HQT HCUVGUV UMKǡLQWTPG[ VQ VJG 0QTVJ 2QNG
HGOCNG FC[U ǡO
ǡHV CPF TGCEJKPI VJG 0QTVJ CPF
5QWVJ 2QNGU QP HQQV *KU SWGUV JCF DGIWP YJGP
2002: #XKCVQT 5VGXG (QUUGVV
75# Ť TKIJV JG UWOOKVVGF 'XGTGUV QP ǡ/C[ǡ
EQORNGVGU VJG ƒTUV UQNQ EKTEWOPCXKICVKQP D[ DCNNQQP
DGVYGGP ǡ,WP CPF ǡ,WN KP VJG Bud Light Spirit of V 2005: $GVYGGP CPF ǡ/CT 5VGXG (QUUGVV
Freedom *G VCMGU QHH CPF NCPFU KP #WUVTCNKC EQORNGVGU VJG ƒTUV UQNQ EKTEWOPCXKICVKQP D[
aircraft without refuelling +V VCMGU JKO ǡJT
2002: 'ODCTMKPI QP VJG longest unicycle ǡOKP KP VJG Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer UVCTVKPI
journey .CTU %NCWUGP
75# UGVU QWV HTQO CPF ƒPKUJKPI CV 5CNKPC -CPUCU 75# 6JG CKTETCHV
6KNNCOQQM 1TGIQP 75# QP ǡ#RT *KU YJKEJ KU DWKNV D[ 5ECNGF %QORQUKVGU ECTTKGU
FQWDNG ETQUUKPI QH VJG EQWPVT[ ƒPKUJGU KP .QU PGCTN[ ǡVQPPGU
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First assassination by firearm 1570 DATELINE
On 23 Jan, James Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh, Scotland – a follower and supporter of Mary,
Queen of Scots – uses a carbine to kill James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray and Regent of Scotland.
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EXPLORATION 2006–2009
JOURNEYS
2006 2007
S 2007: 5VCTVKPI KP #VCNC[C 2GTW
CPF ƒPKUJKPI KP $GNȌO $TC\KN /CTVKP
5VTGN
580 UYKOU VJG GPVKTG NGPIVJ QH
VJG #OC\QP 4KXGT KP ǡFC[U DGVYGGP
ǡ(GD CPF ǡ#RT 6JG MO
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ǡOK VQ
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VQ EKTEWOPCXKICVG VJG YQTNF UQNQ UCKNKPI YGUVDQWPF CPF %QNKP $QFKNN
DQVJ 7- CEEQORNKUJ
CPF PQP UVQR, QP ǡ/C[ 5GVVKPI QWV HTQO 2QTVUOQWVJ the ƒTUV EKTEWOPCXKICVKQP XKC DQVJ
7- QP ǡ0QX UJG VCMGU ǡFC[U ǡJT ǡOKP 2QNGU D[ JGNKEQRVGT 6JG[ UGV QHH HTQO
ǡUGE VQ EQORNGVG VJG XQ[CIG WPUWRRQTVGF KP VJG (QTV 9QTVJ KP 6GZCU 75# KP C $GNN
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Caffari becomes the ƒTUV HGOCNG VQ UCKN PQP UVQR KU CNUQ VJG HCUVGUV EKTEWOPCXKICVKQP
CTQWPF VJG YQTNF KP DQVJ FKTGEVKQPU QP ǡ(GD XKC VJGǡ2QNGU D[ JGNKEQRVGT VCMKPI
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S 2006: $GVYGGP ǡ0QX CPF ǡ&GE *CPPCJ S 2007: 1P ǡ1EV ,CUQP .GYKU
7- EQORNGVGU VJG
/E-GCPF
7- VCMGU ǡFC[U ǡJT ǡOKP VQ UMK ƒTUV EKTEWOPCXKICVKQP WUKPI JWOCP RQYGT C [GCT
HTQO *GTEWNGU +PNGV CV VJG GFIG QH VJG #PVCTEVKE LQWTPG[ YKVJQWV YKPF QT OQVQT CUUKUVCPEG ,CUQP KU
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WPUWRRQTVGF CPF WPCUUKUVGF LQWTPG[ VQ VJG 5QWVJ UVCIGU QH JKU OCOOQVJ VTGM
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/QWPVǡ'XGTGUV VJG 0QTVJ 2QNG CPF VJG 5QWVJ 2QNG 5COCPVJCǡ.CTUQP
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CMC VJG 6JTGG 2QNGU 1P ǡ#RT %GEKNKG 5MQI
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TGIKUVGTU VJG HCUVGUV VKOG VQ EQORNGVG VJG 6JTGG 2QNGU KPENWFKPI %CTUVGPU\ QP #WI
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+V VCMGU JGT ǡ[GCTǡ ǡFC[U VQ CEJKGXG JGT HGCV
DATELINE 1580 Longest castle siege
The cathedral fort of Ishiyama Hongan-ji in modern Osaka, Japan, is attacked by the warlord Oda Nobunaga in
Aug 1570. It is defended by Ikkō-ikki warrior monks until Aug 1580, when the complex is finally burned down.
114 Journeys
Note: Guinness World Records no longer accepts FAST FACTS
applications from adventurers under the age of 16
Antarctica’s Gamburtsev Mountains are buried under ice up to 4,800 m
(15,750 ft) thick • The top 3 m (10 ft) of the ocean holds as much heat as Earth's
atmosphere • The last year that no one climbed Everest's summit was 1974
2008 2009
S 2009: 5CTCJ 1WVGP
7- D ǡ /C[ KU CIGF ǡ[GCTU ǡFC[U YJGP
UJG UGVU QWV VQ TQY CETQUU VJG +PFKCP 1EGCP HTQO ǡ#RT VQ ǡ#WI *GT MO
OK ETQUUKPI DGVYGGP #WUVTCNKC CPF /CWTKVKWU KP Serendipity OCMGU JGT
the [QWPIGUV RGTUQP CPF ƒTUV YQOCP VQ TQY VJG +PFKCP 1EGCP UQNQ
S 2008: 1P ǡ5GR 4QD 6JQOUQP
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Oldest stock exchange 1602 DATELINE
A stock exchange in Amsterdam, Netherlands, is set up for trading in printed
shares of the United East India Company of the Netherlands.
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EXPLORATION 2010–2015
JOURNEYS
2010 2011
S 2010: Alan Bate (UK) completes the fastest circumnavigation by bicycle
(male DGVYGGP ǡ/CT CPF ǡ#WI *KU VQVCN LQWTPG[ VKOG KU ǡFC[U ǡJT
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DATELINE 1610 Most prolific female murderer
Countess Elizabeth Báthory is walled up in her castle, in what is now Slovakia. She is alleged to have killed
as many as 600 people in the previous century, while practising vampirism on girls and young women.
116 Journeys
FAST FACTS
The Himalayas formed 60 million years ago; rock at its summit contains
450-million-year-old fossils from the ocean bed • Kibo, the highest peak of
Kilimanjaro, is a dormant volcano; its two other peaks are extinct volcanoes
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Oldest continuously used national flag 1625 DATELINE
The design of the flag of Denmark – a white Scandinavian cross on a red background – is adopted.
It acquires its square shape in 1748. In Denmark, it is called the “Dannebrog” or “Danish cloth”.
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DATELINE 1657 First operational pendulum clock
Although Italian inventor Galileo had conceived of a pendulum-driven clock before he died, the first working
model isn’t patented until some 20 years later, by astronomer and horologist Christiaan Huygens (NLD).
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IN YOUR KITCHEN 124
IN YOUR BACKYARD 126
IN YOUR BEDROOM
IN YOUR GYM
Longest shout
This chapter is all about records that you can try yourself at
home – proving that you don’t need to be an Olympic athlete or
Hollywood megastar to be a record-breaker. One have-a-go hero
is Germany’s Christian Kinner, holder of the record for the world’s
longest-lasting shout – the kind of feat that anyone can try.
With the help of radio station Sportradio Sport1.fm, soccer fan
Christian – a dedicated follower of Borussia Dortmund – let rip
with a shout that lasted for an impressive 43.56 sec in Munich,
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If you want something to shout about, why not try breaking
some of the records that follow on the next eight pages?
Oldest continuing periodical 1665 DATELINE
The first issue of Philosophical Transactions is published by Britain’s science academy, the Royal Society, on
6 Mar. It will go on to number Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin among its acclaimed contributors.
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IN YOUR KITCHEN
If you thought that the kitchen was only good for making your dinner and washing the dishes, think EGGS 142 Scott Damerow (USA)
again: it’s also the perfect place to cook up some records! From common utensils to everyday foods 32 4QUU /E%WTF[
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such as eggs, sugar and rice, there are record-breaking opportunities in every cupboard and drawer – Most crushed with the head 72 MichaȎN .GXKNNCKP
(4#
and even the fruit bowl. Whether you’re a pro chef with lightning-quick prep skills or a gourmand with KPǡQPG OKPWVG 78 Antonio Almijez (ESP)
an acclaimed appetite, there really is something on the menu for everyone. ǡUGE Mauro Vagnini (ITA)
Most cracked with one hand ǡUGE Ashlee Carlisle (USA)
BANANAS 8 Patrick Bertoletti (USA) in one minute
99 Ashrita Furman (USA) ǡOKP Brian Spotts (USA)
Most peeled and eaten Most crushed by sitting ǡUGE
in one minute in one minute
Most snapped in one minute
Most crushed with the wrist
in two minutes
Fastest time to crush 10 with
elbows pointing forwards
Fastest time to move six
from a box to egg cups
using the feet
Fastest time to balance
a dozen
SUGAR CUBES 17 Silvio Sabba (ITA) SPOONS 52 Etibar Elchiev (GEO)
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Most balanced on the chin Most twisted in one minute 31 Dalibor JablanoviȦ
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CREAM CRACKERS
Fastest time to eat three ǡUGE Ambrose Mendy (UK)
JELLY CANDIES Andrew Kamil Mourad
(LBN)
Most jelly beans moved
using a straw in one minute ǡUGE Silvio Sabba (ITA)
Fastest time to sort 30 jelly ǡUGE Stephen Kish (UK)
beans using chopsticks
Fastest time to sort 30 jelly
babies using chopsticks
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30 using chopsticks
DATELINE 1670 Oldest elected Pope
Clement X (ITA, b. Emilio Altieri) becomes leader of the Catholic Church aged
79 years 290 days. He will hold the position until his death just six years later.
ONIONS ǡUGE Yusuke Yamaguchi (JPN) FERRERO ROCHER 9 Peter Czerwinski (CAN)
Most eaten in one minute Patrick Bertoletti (USA)
Fastest time to eat a ǡOKP ǡUGE Bob Blumer (CAN)
raw onion ǡI Masanori Fujimura (JPN) Fastest time to eat 15 ǡOKP ǡUGE Peter Czerwinski (CAN)
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Fastest time to drink a bottle ǡI André Ortolf (DEU)
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LEMONS RICE & PASTA
Fastest time to drink one litre ǡUGE Stephen Dechert II Most uncooked rice grains moved 38 Silvio Sabba (ITA)
of lemon juice through a straw (USA) with chopsticks in one minute
Fastest time to peel ǡUGE Ashrita Furman (USA) Most rice grains eaten with 23 4QD $GCVQP
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Fastest time to peel Most rice grains eaten with 134 Bob Blumer (CAN)
and eat three 15 Ashrita Furman and chopsticks in three minutes
Bipin Larkin (both USA)
Most caught blindfolded Most tortellini made 25 Francesco Boggian
in 30 seconds (team of two) 33 Ashrita Furman and in three minutes (ITA)
Bipin Larkin (both USA)
Most caught blindfolded Fastest time to eat a bowl of pasta ǡUGE Peter Czerwinski
in one minute (team of two)
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COCKTAIL STICKS 40 Ashrita Furman (USA)
Paolo Verri (ITA)
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Most sweetcorn eaten
in three minutes
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Most prolific hanging judge 1685 DATELINE
Lord Chief Justice George Jeffreys (UK) sentences some 320 rebels to death on the grounds of treason
for participating in the Revolt of the West. These trials will come to be known as the Bloody Assizes.
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DATELINE 1705 First confirmed periodic comet
British astronomer Edmond Halley realizes that a comet first documented back in 240 BCE actually passes
Earth in a 75-year cycle. He successfully predicts that the next flyby of Halley’s Comet will be in 1758.
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Oldest restaurant 1725 DATELINE
Restaurante Botín opens its doors in the centre of Madrid, Spain. Customers have to bring their
own food and wine, which is then cooked on the premises. The eatery is still open today.
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No matter how old we get, some toys and games will never lose their appeal. From juggling GOLF BALLS 9 Don Athey (USA)
and yo-yoing to solving Rubik’s Cubes and launching paper aircraft, what makes these playtime
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Most made and caught 25 Airbus Group (FRA)
in one minute (team of 10)
Most consecutive times 13 Fumihiro Uno (JPN)
to hit a target
Most caught by mouth 17 Ashrita Furman and
in one minute Bipin Larkin (both USA)
Farthest flight ǡO Joe Ayoob and John
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MR POTATO HEAD ǡUGE Samet Durmaz (TUR)
ǡUGE Zoe Jayne Whalley (UK)
Fastest time to assemble
Fastest time to assemble
while blindfolded
RUBIK’S CUBE (3x3x3) ǡUGE Lucas Etter (USA)
ǡUGE Feliks Zemdegs (AUS)
Fastest time to solve
ǡUGE Kaijun Lin (CHN)
Fastest time to solve
with one hand ǡUGE Jakub Kipa (POL)
Fastest time to solve
while blindfolded 19 Tim Wong (USA) and
Fastest time to solve Marcel Peters (DEU)
with the feet
Fewest moves to complete
YO-YO ǡO Arron Sparks (UK) TIDDLYWINKS ǡO Ben Soares (UK)
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“walk the dog” 144 Arron Sparks (UK) Highest wink shot ǡO Adrian Jones (UK)
Most “hop the fence” tricks
ǡHV ǡKP David Smith (UK)
in one minute 27 Arron Sparks (UK)
Most “reach for the Moon” Ed Wynn (UK)
tricks in 30 seconds 71 Hiroyuki Suzuki (JPN)
Most “eli hops” in 30 seconds 51 Hans Van Dan Elzen (USA)
Most tricks in one minute
DATELINE 1749 First lightning rod
American polymath Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning rod. It works on the principle that a metal rod fixed to the
top of a building, and continuing underground, will draw a lightning strike that would otherwise harm the building.
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PING-PONG BALLS 6 Stephen Kish (UK)
Most bounced into a pint Coby Cotton (USA)
glass in one minute
ǡJT ǡOKP Deepak Sharma
Longest time controlling ǡUGE Bajagain (NPL)
with a table tennis bat 76 Francisco Tebar
Most spits and catches of Honrubia (ESP)
three with the mouth
SPORT STACKING ǡUGE William Orrell (USA) JENGA ǡOKP Tyler and Ryan
Fastest 3-3-3 stack ǡUGE William Orrell (USA) ǡUGE Measel (both USA)
Fastest 3-6-3 stack ǡUGE William Orrell (USA) Fastest 30-level tower
Fastest cycle stack ǡUGE Chandler Miller, William Orrell, William (team of two)
Fastest 3-6-3 relay
Polly and Zhewei Wu (all USA)
LEGO® PLAYING CARDS ǡUGE ZdenȸM $TCFȄȬ
Fastest time to (CZE)
Tallest tower built with 48 Chris Challis (UK) arrange a deck
one hand in one minute Most held in a fan 326 Ralf Laue (DEU)
Tallest house of cards
ǡO Bryan Berg (USA)
Fastest time to learn
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and recall a deck
ǡUGE Simon Reinhard
(DEU)
Tallest tower built in one minute 131 Andy Parsons (UK)
Most bricks picked up with a 37 Megane Scott (UK)
brick in 30 seconds (one hand) Nardy Nafzger (NLD)
COINS ǡUGE Stephen Kish (UK)
Fastest time to stack 25
Most stacked in one minute 69 Silvio Sabba (ITA)
Most balanced in a pyramid
Aleksandr Bendikov
Most stacked (BLR)
253 Dipak Syal (IND)
Most prolific composer 1767 DATELINE
Georg Philipp Telemann (DEU) dies, leaving behind a body of work that includes 12 sets of church services for a
year, 40 operas, 44 passions and more than 600 orchestral suites, plus concertos and other chamber music.
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Trick rider Philip Astley (UK) adds acrobats, rope dancers and clowns to his horse show in London, UK. In 1782,
a former member of his company, Charles Hughes (UK), will found the first such show to call itself a circus.
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The Smethwick Engine, designed by James Watt and built by the Birmingham Canal Company (both UK), enters
service on 27 May at Smethwick, West Midlands, UK. It is used to pump water back up a series of canal locks.
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DATELINE 1783 First manned flight
On 15 Oct in France, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier rises 26 m (84 ft) in a hot-air balloon built by inventors Joseph and
Jacques Montgolfier (all FRA). On 21 Nov, he and the Marquis d’Arlandes also make the first free manned balloon flight.
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PERFORMERS
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To demonstrate the power of inoculation, Dr Edward Jenner (UK) deliberately infects a child with cowpox; a few
weeks later, he injects him with smallpox, but the child proves immune to this otherwise deadly disease.
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DATELINE 1800 Longest human horn
An 82-year-old French woman known as Madame Dimanche has an operation to remove a horn (technically
a keratinous skin tumour) that has been growing out of her forehead for six years. It is 24.9 cm (9.8 in) long.
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Monster truck tyres are some 5 ft 3 in–5 ft 6 in (1.6–1.67 m) tall – about the
height of the average woman • Evel Knievel (USA) pioneered motorcycle
distance jumping – and suffered the most bones broken in a lifetime: 433
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Stunt driver Terry Grant and Jaguar
(both UK) achieved a loop-the-loop
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diameter at the Niederrad Racecourse
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as part of the car’s debut appearance
in front of the world’s motoring press.
First passenger car 1801 DATELINE
On 24 Dec, inventor and mining engineer Richard Trevithick (UK) takes passengers for a
ride through Camborne in Cornwall, UK, in the Puffing Devil, a steam-powered automobile.
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On 27 Jun 2015, while performing a full-body burn, professional stuntman Josef Tödtling
(AUT) was pulled 500 m (1,640 ft) by a horse. Josef protected himself with several layers
of clothing and cooling gel, as well as metal shin and elbow pads. The latter were a vital
piece of equipment, as the specially trained stunt horse kept up a brisk canter for the
whole attempt, dragging Josef along on his front at about 35 km/h (21 mph). The fearless
daredevil was accompanied on his bumpy journey – in Teichalm-Fladnitz, Styria, Austria
– by a quad-bike rider, who replenished the flames with lamp oil as needed.
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with another record: a 582-m (1,909-ft) haul, tied this time to the back of the quad bike –
the longest distance pulled by a vehicle (full-body burn)!
DATELINE 1814 Youngest doctorate
On 10 Apr, child prodigy Karl Witte of Lochau, Germany, becomes a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
at the University of Giessen, Germany, at the age of just 13 years 283 days.
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Fire-eating was first recorded in Sicily in 133 BCE • Historic English performer
Robert Powell ate burning coals and melted sealing wax • The “Fireproof
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On 5 Apr, the Tambora volcano on Sumbawa island in the Dutch East Indies (later Indonesia) begins to erupt for several
days. An estimated 71,000 people will die – some from the after-effects, which include severe climatic changes.
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DATELINE 1826 Oldest zoo
Founded by British statesman Stamford Raffles, the Zoological Society of London is the earliest scientific zoo.
Two years later, its first animal houses are erected at Regent’s Park, marking the birth of London Zoo.
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“Scuba” is an acronym, standing for Self-Contained Underwater Breathing
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Swiss cartoonist Rodolphe Töpffer creates the 30-page Histoire de M. Vieux Bois (“The Adventures
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Louis Daguerre (FRA) takes a test photo of a street scene showing a man having his shoes
shined. The subject sits still for long enough to be visible in the long-exposure shot.
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The chainsaw originated as a surgical tool called an osteotome, still
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while atop a unicycle 20 backflips against the clock. The sword prevented
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138 Toys & Games
CONTENTS
TOYS & GAMES 140
FACTOGRAPHIC 142
TOYS & BOARD GAMES 144
CHESS
CHAIN REACTIONS 146
ACTION FIGURES & DOLLS 148
PUZZLES 150
CONSTRUCTION TOYS 152
VIDEOGAMES 154
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LEGO-OLOGY
The name LEGO® combines the Danish words “leg” and “godt”, meaning
“play well”. The company began producing “Automatic Binding Bricks”
back in 1949. And the design was built to last: you can open a
brand-new LEGO box today and join any of the standard bricks with
any LEGO brick made since 1958 (the picture to the right shows box
set 700/5 from that year). Today, LEGO is found in almost every
country on Earth – and even in outer space…
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Jean-François Gravelet (FRA), aka Charles Blondin, crosses the famous waterfalls
between the USA and Canada on a 335-m-long (1,100-ft) rope.
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The Ancient Egyptian board game Senet was depicted on the tomb of
Hesy in around 2686 BCE • Engineer Richard T James invented the Slinky
by accident while testing springs for hanging up instruments at sea
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foosball (doubles)
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6HS $OH[DQGHU Roma, the main street in Turin, Italy, with a table football
Kuen, Manuel Larcher, (or foosball) game played on a 121.4-m-long (398-ft 3.5-in)
Bernd Neururer and table – in fact, a series of linked tables. The fast and
Dietmar Neururer (all AUT) furious action saw a total of 2,332 plastic players or foos
SOD\HG WDEOH IRRWEDOO IRU men in red and blue jerseys pass, kick and shoot 101 balls
61 hr 17 min in Innsbruck, – all operated by 424 pairs of hands. The event raised
Austria. The feat made money for building and maintaining the Mohamed
them record holders Aden Sheikh Children’s Teaching Hospital in Hargeisa,
for the third time. Somaliland. Afterwards, the tables were divided up
and given out to the participating teams to keep.
First man-made plastic 1862 DATELINE
Parkesine, a plastic developed by Alexander Parkes (UK) and derived from
plant cellulose, is publicly unveiled at the Great International Exhibition in London.
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5.076 m (16 ft 7 in) tall and 2.04 m 53 years ended with the
(6 ft 8 in) in diameter at its base was death of Straszacker on
unveiled by the Gitok technical school 13 Oct 1999.
(BEL) in Kalmthout, Belgium. The piece
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to raise money and awareness for an players could take as long
orphanage and cancer charity. as they wanted to decide
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single move.
DATELINE 1863 First detective novel
Opening with a murder, The Notting Hill Mystery by Charles Felix (UK) – first serialized in the magazine Once a Week
between 1862 and 1863 – is published in its complete form, and establishes the classic detective genre.
144 Toys & Games
FAST FACTS
Russia’s Anatoly Karpov won the 1975 World Chess Championship without playing
a match, after reigning world champion Bobby Fischer (USA) resigned his title
• The term “checkmate” comes from the Persian Shah mat – “The king is dead”
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On 31 Aug, Mary Ward, an Irish scientist, becomes the first person to die in a
road accident, after falling out of her cousin’s experimental steam car.
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The “domino effect” made Largest toppling domino stone Largest
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debut in 1977 after Bob Measuring 9.18 m (30 ft 1.5 in) tall, 4.57 m (15 ft) wide and
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Most dominoes toppled continuous domino toppling after the other, into the air.
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of 89 builders toppled a domino circle toppling High School Bomb Squad
4,491,863 dominoes in continuously for 35 min – comprising 15 students
the WTC Expo center in 22 sec at the Domino Day from Natick High School
Leeuwarden, Netherlands, 2008 event in Leeuwarden, in Massachusetts, USA –
for Domino Day 2009. Netherlands, on 7 Nov 2008. successfully triggered a stick
bomb made from 31,370
The most dominoes Tallest domino structure wooden tongue depressors.
toppled by an individual is Students Michael Hörmann
321,197, achieved by Liu and Philipp Zimmermann Longest human domino line
Yang (CHN) at Citic Guoan (both DEU) erected and On 12 Aug 2010, a group
Grand Epoch City in Beijing, toppled a 9.17-m-high (30-ft of 10,267 people formed
China, on 31 Dec 2011. 1-in) structure composed of a record-breaking human
8,044 dominoes in Buchloe, domino line at the Ordos
Largest Great Germany, on 21 Apr 2014. International Nadam Fair in
Ball Contraption Ordos City, Inner Mongolia
Autonomous Region, China.
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so that a small plastic ball Sabba (ITA) built a column
can pass from module to of 48 dominoes in 30 sec
module. The largest yet built in Pioltello, Milan, Italy, on
comprised 100 modules, and 28 Apr 2013.
was erected by Maico Arts
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at the Wilhelm-Lückert-
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In March, the first intelligible phone call takes place in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Alexander Graham Bell (UK), who had filed his
patent for the telephone on 14 Feb 1876, phones his assistant in a nearby room to say, “Mr Watson – come here – I want to see you.”
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Dominoes represent all of the possible throws of a pair of dice (plus blanks)
• Domino spots are known as “pips” • The start of the domino-toppling
craze can be traced back to a segment on The Tonight Show (USA) in 1976
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pyramid at a Pizza Express in Waren (Müritz), Germany. involving 1,508 mousetraps Lückert-Gymnasium in Büdingen, Germany.
on 13 Sep 2013. In fact,
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set but one failed to snap.
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slopes by means
of pneumatic
pistons.
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the most complex yet seen in competition
is the 300-step device built by the Purdue
Society of Professional Engineers Rube
Goldberg Team (USA). It was activated
at the National Rube Goldberg Machine
Contest at Purdue University in Lafayette,
Indiana, USA, on 31 Mar 2012. Its objective
was to blow up and pop a balloon!
First incandescent light bulb 1878 DATELINE
On 18 Dec, Joseph Wilson Swan (UK) reveals his incandescent light bulb (also called an “electric lamp”)
in a demonstration before a gathering at the Newcastle Chemical Society, UK. It burns out quickly.
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DATELINE 1883 Loudest noise
On 27 Aug, the island-volcano Krakatoa in Indonesia explodes in an eruption. The sound is heard 5,000 km (3,100 mi) away.
It is estimated to be audible over 8% of Earth’s surface and have 26 times the power of the largest ever H-bomb test.
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