world records: GB edition
deepest scuba dive
jim bowden, april 1994, 1000 ft. in a freshwater cave in mexico.
most valuable shipwreck
mel fisher found the Nuestra Senora de Atocha off the Key West coast of Florida in 1985. it had 36 tons of gold and silver and 70 pounds of emeralds when it went down in a hurricane in 1622.
land speed record
763.035 mph by andy green in Black rock Desert, Nevada, october 1997. powered by 2 jet engines with a total of 20.57 tons of thrust. it's the first land vehicle to go faster than the speed of sound.
fastest hearse driver
Rock griffith did the 1/4 mile in 16.085 seconds at 85.47 mph in a 1964 pontiac hearse at Pomona, California in october 1998.
fastest wheelie
Jarrod Frost did 172.6 mph on the back wheel of a Suzuki 1200 at a UK airfield in July 1997.
fastest person in the air
Captain eldon Joersz and Major George Morgan went 2193.17 mph in a Lockheed SR-71A on a 15 mile course near Beale AFB, CA in July 1976.
longest time without food or water
Andreas Mihavecz of Austria was discovered near death from a car wreck, then police in Hocsht, Austria put him in a holding cell in a local government building and forgot about him. he lived for 18 days without food or water.
longest fall survived without a parachute
on january 26, 1972, Vesna Vulovic, a flight attendant from yoguslavia, survived a fall from an altitude of 33,330 ft. when the DC-9 plane in which she was traveling blew up over czechoslovakia. the other 27 passengers were killed.
most lightning strikes survived
Roy Sullivan, a park ranger form Virginia, was struck by lightning 7 times:
1942, lost a toenail
1969, lost his eyebrows
1970, burned his left shoulder
1972, hair caught fire
1973, hair caught fire, burned legs
1976, burned ankle
1977, chest and stomach burns
tallest structure
is a 2064 ft. TV tower near Fargo, ND built for KTHI-TV in 1963.
tallest building
the CN Tower on Toronto at 1815 ft. built in 1975.
biggest igloo
the Ice Hotel in sweden has 53,821 square feet, built entirely of ice, is rebuilt every 5 years and gets bigger every time. it has a movie theater, saunas, ice bar, and the world's only ice chapel.
longest hibernation by a rodent
Alaskan Ground Squirrels hibernate for 9 months of the year.
fastest beer keg lifter
tom gaskin lifted a 137 lb. beer keg above his head 902 times in 6 hours at Liska House, ireland in october 1996.
greatest distance covered while carrying beer steins
duane osborn went 49 feet 2 inches in 3.65 seconds while holding 5 full steins of beer in each hand in July 1992 in michigan.
longest cow patty throw
266 ft. by steve urner at the Mountain Festival, Tehachapi, CA on august 14, 1981.
biggest chewing gum bubble
23 in. neat huh
longest cherry pit spit
95 ft. 1 in. by Horst Ormann in germany, august 1994.
longest tobacco wad spit
53 ft. 3 in. by David O'Dell at the 22nd annual world tobacco spitting championships in march 1997.
longest pizza delivery
Eagle Boys Dial-A-Pizza in New Zealand regularly delivers pizzas along with supplies via C-130 to Antarctica. the trip takes 9 hours and they come with reheating instructions.
longest distance covered by rolling your body over and over
Lotan Baba, an indian holy man, rolled his body 2485 miles 973 yards over eight months in 1994, averaging 6-7 miles per day. he did not eat but drank water and smoked cigarettes. the journey was completed by rolling his body up a 5,000 foot mountain to the temple of Vaishno Devi.
fastest racing snail
Archie the Snail trained by Carl Banham, england. 13 inches in 2 min. 20 sec.
most expensive meal
in September 1997, three diners at the Le Gavroche Restaurant in London spent $345 on food, $1352 on cigars and $19,248 on six bottles of wine. the most expensive bottle, a 1985 Romanee-Conti costing $7920, tasted "a bit young" so the diners gave it to the restaurant staff. total bill: $20,945.92.
most expensive spice
wild ginseng root from China's Chan Pak Mountain peaked at $18,678,624.00 per ounce in Hong Kong in november of 1979.
strongest alcohol
the Estonian Liquor Monopoly sold 98% (196 proof) alcohol distilled from potatoes when the country was independent between WWI and WII.
Most Expensive Bottle Of Wine
in december 1985, $136,248 was paid for a bottle of 1787 Chateau Lafite. it was engraved with the initials of Thomas Jefferson. in 1986 the cork slipped and the wine was spoiled.
most expensive liquor
$79,552 for a 50 year old bottle of Glennfiddich whisky, sold to an italian businessman in 1992.
biggest hamburger
2.5 tons
most valuable zippo lighter
an original 1933 Zippo (one of the first ones) was sold for $10,000 in 1998.
most valuable jeans
in march 1997, Levi Strauss & Co. paid a new york jeans dealer $25,000 for a pair of their Levi's 501's beleived to have been made sometime between 1886 and 1902.
oldest tattoos
Otzi, the world's oldest preserved human body, has 15 tattoos. he is believed to have died 5300 years ago at the age of 40. he has a series of blue parallel lines covering his lower spine, stripes on his right ankle and a tattoo of a cross behind his right knee.
most fingers and toes
14 fingers, 15 toes in London, september 1921.
greatest distance milk shot from eye
jim chichon from Pennsylvania squirted milk from his eye a distance of 6 ft. 7-1/2 in. on TV in november, 1998.
longest human tail
a 12 year old boy in Thailand was discovered by Scientific American magazine in 1889 to have a soft tail about 1 foot in length.
greatest eyeball protrusion
kimberly goodman of Chicago can protrude her eyeballs almost 1/2 inch out of her skull. she gained the ability to "pop" her eyes after being hit on the head witha hockey mask. doctors still don't know how this is possible.
biggest feet
matthew mcgrory of los angeles, CA, size 29-1/2.
longest nose
thomas wedders, england, 7-1/2 inches.
loudest snorer
Kare Walkert of Kumla, Sweden, 93 decibels.
longest hiccups
charles osborne of Anthon, Iowa, nonstop from 1922 to 1990. in the meantime he married twice and fathered eight children.
most downloaded woman
cindy margolis, estimated at 7 million downloads so far. a picture of her in a swimsuit was posted, which was downloded 70,000 times in the first 24 hours.
most popular internet search terms
the most frequently used search term on the Yahoo search engine is the word "sex", with an average of 1.55 million searches per month. followed by searches related to chat, games, celebrities and weather.
fastest street car
McLaren F1, 240 mph.
fastest street motorcycle
Suzuki Hayabusa GSX1300R, 194 mph. it has 173 hp but weighs 474 lb.
biggest submarine
the Russian Akula (typhoon) is 562 ft. and 29,217 tons.
biggest airplane
the Ukranian Antonov AN-124 Ruslan has 35,800 cubic feet of cargo space, a maximum takeoff weight of 447 tons, and the heavy lift version has a stretched fuselage with 42,000 cubic feet, an unobstructed 141 foot long hold.
most powerful thermonuclear device
a thermonuclear device with power equivalent to about 52 megatons of TNT was detonated bythe former USSR in the Novaya Zemlya area in october 1961. the shock wave circled the earth three times, with the first circuit taking 36-1/2 hours. estimates at the time put the power of the device at between 62 and 90 megatons.
most advanced figher plane
F22 raptor
fastest combat jet
MiG-25 (Foxbat) at mach 3.2
most powerful torpedo
the Russian Type 65, a 26 in. torpedo, carries a warhead of almost 1 ton of conventional explosive or a 15 kiloton nuclear warhead. it can home in acoustically on the turbulence left from the wake of a ship from more than 50 miles away and close in at more than 43 knots (50 mph).
most advanced helicopter
the Russian KA-52 Alligator
fastest firing machine gun
M134 Minigun at 6,000 rpm.
most likely place to be killed by a snake
Sri Lanka, 800 deaths per year from snakebite.
jim bowden, april 1994, 1000 ft. in a freshwater cave in mexico.
most valuable shipwreck
mel fisher found the Nuestra Senora de Atocha off the Key West coast of Florida in 1985. it had 36 tons of gold and silver and 70 pounds of emeralds when it went down in a hurricane in 1622.
land speed record
763.035 mph by andy green in Black rock Desert, Nevada, october 1997. powered by 2 jet engines with a total of 20.57 tons of thrust. it's the first land vehicle to go faster than the speed of sound.
fastest hearse driver
Rock griffith did the 1/4 mile in 16.085 seconds at 85.47 mph in a 1964 pontiac hearse at Pomona, California in october 1998.
fastest wheelie
Jarrod Frost did 172.6 mph on the back wheel of a Suzuki 1200 at a UK airfield in July 1997.
fastest person in the air
Captain eldon Joersz and Major George Morgan went 2193.17 mph in a Lockheed SR-71A on a 15 mile course near Beale AFB, CA in July 1976.
longest time without food or water
Andreas Mihavecz of Austria was discovered near death from a car wreck, then police in Hocsht, Austria put him in a holding cell in a local government building and forgot about him. he lived for 18 days without food or water.
longest fall survived without a parachute
on january 26, 1972, Vesna Vulovic, a flight attendant from yoguslavia, survived a fall from an altitude of 33,330 ft. when the DC-9 plane in which she was traveling blew up over czechoslovakia. the other 27 passengers were killed.
most lightning strikes survived
Roy Sullivan, a park ranger form Virginia, was struck by lightning 7 times:
1942, lost a toenail
1969, lost his eyebrows
1970, burned his left shoulder
1972, hair caught fire
1973, hair caught fire, burned legs
1976, burned ankle
1977, chest and stomach burns
tallest structure
is a 2064 ft. TV tower near Fargo, ND built for KTHI-TV in 1963.
tallest building
the CN Tower on Toronto at 1815 ft. built in 1975.
biggest igloo
the Ice Hotel in sweden has 53,821 square feet, built entirely of ice, is rebuilt every 5 years and gets bigger every time. it has a movie theater, saunas, ice bar, and the world's only ice chapel.
longest hibernation by a rodent
Alaskan Ground Squirrels hibernate for 9 months of the year.
fastest beer keg lifter
tom gaskin lifted a 137 lb. beer keg above his head 902 times in 6 hours at Liska House, ireland in october 1996.
greatest distance covered while carrying beer steins
duane osborn went 49 feet 2 inches in 3.65 seconds while holding 5 full steins of beer in each hand in July 1992 in michigan.
longest cow patty throw
266 ft. by steve urner at the Mountain Festival, Tehachapi, CA on august 14, 1981.
biggest chewing gum bubble
23 in. neat huh
longest cherry pit spit
95 ft. 1 in. by Horst Ormann in germany, august 1994.
longest tobacco wad spit
53 ft. 3 in. by David O'Dell at the 22nd annual world tobacco spitting championships in march 1997.
longest pizza delivery
Eagle Boys Dial-A-Pizza in New Zealand regularly delivers pizzas along with supplies via C-130 to Antarctica. the trip takes 9 hours and they come with reheating instructions.
longest distance covered by rolling your body over and over
Lotan Baba, an indian holy man, rolled his body 2485 miles 973 yards over eight months in 1994, averaging 6-7 miles per day. he did not eat but drank water and smoked cigarettes. the journey was completed by rolling his body up a 5,000 foot mountain to the temple of Vaishno Devi.
fastest racing snail
Archie the Snail trained by Carl Banham, england. 13 inches in 2 min. 20 sec.
most expensive meal
in September 1997, three diners at the Le Gavroche Restaurant in London spent $345 on food, $1352 on cigars and $19,248 on six bottles of wine. the most expensive bottle, a 1985 Romanee-Conti costing $7920, tasted "a bit young" so the diners gave it to the restaurant staff. total bill: $20,945.92.
most expensive spice
wild ginseng root from China's Chan Pak Mountain peaked at $18,678,624.00 per ounce in Hong Kong in november of 1979.
strongest alcohol
the Estonian Liquor Monopoly sold 98% (196 proof) alcohol distilled from potatoes when the country was independent between WWI and WII.
Most Expensive Bottle Of Wine
in december 1985, $136,248 was paid for a bottle of 1787 Chateau Lafite. it was engraved with the initials of Thomas Jefferson. in 1986 the cork slipped and the wine was spoiled.
most expensive liquor
$79,552 for a 50 year old bottle of Glennfiddich whisky, sold to an italian businessman in 1992.
biggest hamburger
2.5 tons
most valuable zippo lighter
an original 1933 Zippo (one of the first ones) was sold for $10,000 in 1998.
most valuable jeans
in march 1997, Levi Strauss & Co. paid a new york jeans dealer $25,000 for a pair of their Levi's 501's beleived to have been made sometime between 1886 and 1902.
oldest tattoos
Otzi, the world's oldest preserved human body, has 15 tattoos. he is believed to have died 5300 years ago at the age of 40. he has a series of blue parallel lines covering his lower spine, stripes on his right ankle and a tattoo of a cross behind his right knee.
most fingers and toes
14 fingers, 15 toes in London, september 1921.
greatest distance milk shot from eye
jim chichon from Pennsylvania squirted milk from his eye a distance of 6 ft. 7-1/2 in. on TV in november, 1998.
longest human tail
a 12 year old boy in Thailand was discovered by Scientific American magazine in 1889 to have a soft tail about 1 foot in length.
greatest eyeball protrusion
kimberly goodman of Chicago can protrude her eyeballs almost 1/2 inch out of her skull. she gained the ability to "pop" her eyes after being hit on the head witha hockey mask. doctors still don't know how this is possible.
biggest feet
matthew mcgrory of los angeles, CA, size 29-1/2.
longest nose
thomas wedders, england, 7-1/2 inches.
loudest snorer
Kare Walkert of Kumla, Sweden, 93 decibels.
longest hiccups
charles osborne of Anthon, Iowa, nonstop from 1922 to 1990. in the meantime he married twice and fathered eight children.
most downloaded woman
cindy margolis, estimated at 7 million downloads so far. a picture of her in a swimsuit was posted, which was downloded 70,000 times in the first 24 hours.
most popular internet search terms
the most frequently used search term on the Yahoo search engine is the word "sex", with an average of 1.55 million searches per month. followed by searches related to chat, games, celebrities and weather.
fastest street car
McLaren F1, 240 mph.
fastest street motorcycle
Suzuki Hayabusa GSX1300R, 194 mph. it has 173 hp but weighs 474 lb.
biggest submarine
the Russian Akula (typhoon) is 562 ft. and 29,217 tons.
biggest airplane
the Ukranian Antonov AN-124 Ruslan has 35,800 cubic feet of cargo space, a maximum takeoff weight of 447 tons, and the heavy lift version has a stretched fuselage with 42,000 cubic feet, an unobstructed 141 foot long hold.
most powerful thermonuclear device
a thermonuclear device with power equivalent to about 52 megatons of TNT was detonated bythe former USSR in the Novaya Zemlya area in october 1961. the shock wave circled the earth three times, with the first circuit taking 36-1/2 hours. estimates at the time put the power of the device at between 62 and 90 megatons.
most advanced figher plane
F22 raptor
fastest combat jet
MiG-25 (Foxbat) at mach 3.2
most powerful torpedo
the Russian Type 65, a 26 in. torpedo, carries a warhead of almost 1 ton of conventional explosive or a 15 kiloton nuclear warhead. it can home in acoustically on the turbulence left from the wake of a ship from more than 50 miles away and close in at more than 43 knots (50 mph).
most advanced helicopter
the Russian KA-52 Alligator
fastest firing machine gun
M134 Minigun at 6,000 rpm.
most likely place to be killed by a snake
Sri Lanka, 800 deaths per year from snakebite.
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Longest shot-
NASA- "Deep Impact" 85 million miles on a moving comet. With a 820lb projectile.[:D] Got ballistics!0 -
quote:longest fall survived without a parachute
on january 26, 1972, Vesna Vulovic, a flight attendant from yoguslavia, survived a fall from an altitude of 33,330 ft. when the DC-9 plane in which she was traveling blew up over czechoslovakia. the other 27 passengers were killed.
Of course the impact with the planet Earth squashed her like a bug!0 -
Man O'man, I can't tell you how many sleepless nights I paced and pondered about who held the record as the fastest hearse driver.
"Rock Griffith did the 1/4 mile in 16.085 seconds at 85.47 mph in a 1964 Pontiac hearse at Pomona, California in October 1998."
At last I can ponder on the other dilemma that's been eating at me.
What's the meaning of life and where do I fit into it's grand scheme????????0 -
if you're riding in a hearse, it's too late to figure it out! 0 -
quote:Originally posted by buschmaster
if you're riding in a hearse, it's too late to figure it out!
Death is life's subtle hint that you need to slow down.[:D]0 -
unless you're in an ambulance, then it's a hint that you need to speed up! [:)] 0
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