The Largest Comic Strip measured 3785.35 m² (40, 745 ft² 1 in²) and was achieved by Adidas Japan K.K. and Sky Comic project team at Jonanjima Seaside Park, located next to Haneda Airport in Ota-ku, Tokyo, Japan, on 25 May 2010. Adidas prepared this record attempt to cheer on the Official Japan football team for the World Cup. There were 13 frames which depicted each player that was chosen to go to the World Cup. The project team had spent almost half a year to
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The greatest deficit from which an English Premier League team has come back to salvage a result was four goals by Newcastle United over Arsenal in a 4-4 draw at St. James’ Park in Newcastle, UK, on 5 February 2011. The Magpies trailed 4-0 after the first 26 minutes before netting four goals in the final 22 minutes to earn the point.
The Soviet Polyus satellite was a prototype orbital weapons platform measuring 37 m (121 ft 4 in) long, 4.1 m (13 ft 5 in) in diameter and with a mass of 80 tonnes (176,370 lb). It was equipped with an anti-satellite recoilless cannon, a sensor blinding laser to confuse hostile satellites and a nuclear space mine launcher. Only one was ever launched, on 15 May 1987. It failed to reach orbit and crashed into the Pacific Ocean. It is unclear which weapon systems from its
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The largest colouring book measures 1.80 m (5 ft 10 in) high and 1.50 m (4 ft 11 in) long and was manufactured by Salma Al-Jeddi (Kuwait) in Kuwait, on 26 June 2008. The colouring book is an outsized replica of a colouring book for children that was designed to teach dental hygiene. Salma Al-Jeddi is a dental hygienist.
The Monfort Bat Colony, located in the Monfort Cave on the Samal Island in Mindanao, Philippines, is the largest colony of Geoffrey’s Rousette Fruit Bat (Rousetteus amplexicaudatus)”. As per an estimate from Bat Conservation International in 2006, the population in the Monfort cave was approximately 1.8 million. In this cave, the fruit bats line the walls and ceiling at an average of 60 per square foot.
The largest recorded colony of ants in the world stretches 6,000 km (3,700 miles) from northern Italy, through the south of France to the Atlantic coast of Spain, and is made up of a species of Argentine ant (Linepithema humile) introduced into Europe approximately 80 years ago. The ants have shown the ability to recognise each other even though they may come from opposite ends of the colony. The discovery of the ‘supercolony’ is the result of research carried out by Swiss, French and Danish
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The largest colon cancer screening at multiple locations involved 7,240 screenings by Kaiser Permanente Southern California (USA) in Pasadena, California, USA, on 21 March 2013. Screenings methods included at-home FIT tests, as well as in-office colonoscopy and flexible sigmoidoscopy procedures. 23 procedures from one site were not counted, for not meeting the minimum amount of 25 per site as required in the guidelines.
The largest commercially available jigsaw puzzle has 32,256 pieces and was manufactured by Ravensburger AG (Germany) in September 2010.
The record for the largest computer class was 1,135 students and was set in the computer classroom of Shandong Lanxiang Senior Vestibule School in Jinan City, Shandong Province, China on 15 January 2006.
The largest compressed natural gas fueling station is the C-Nergy Compressed Natural Gas Station in Singapore which has a total of 46 filling hoses. It was opened to the public on 9 September 2009. CNG – compressed natural gas is a fossil fuel substitute for gasoline.