The largest galaxy in our galaxy cluster, the Local Group, is the Andromeda spiral galaxy M31. Results announced in January 2007 suggest Andromeda is five times larger than previously thought, with the discovery of stars orbiting its centre at a distance of at least 500,000 light years. Andromeda, some 2.5 million light years from Earth, is the most distant object visible to the naked eye.
The largest Gaelic football lesson consisted of 1,204 participants and was achieved by Roche Emmets GFC (Ireland) in Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland, on 16 June 2013.
The world’s largest functioning traditional plane weighs 2.5 tonnes and measures 6.5 x 3.5 x 2 m (21.3 x11.4 x 6.5 ft). It was constructed by joiner Johannes Fellner (Austria) and tested on 24 May 2003 in Vienna, Austria, when 16 men moved the plane and successfully shaved a wooden splint from a wooden plank.
The largest functioning gas turbine is 13.238 m (43 ft 5 in) long, 5.923 m (19 ft 5 in) wide and 4.998 m (16 ft 4 in) high and was built by Siemens AG Energy Sector in Berlin, Germany, on 27 April 2007. After the construction, the turbine was delivered to the combined cycle power plant “Irsching 4” in southern Bavaria. The turbine weights 444 tons (888000 lbs).
The largest functioning blackjack table measured 206.85 m (2,226 ft 6 in) in surface area and was created by the Viejas Casino (USA) in Alpine, California, on 13 September 2013. In celebrate of the Viejas Casino’s 21st anniversary, one hand of blackjack was played by six guests of the casino and a dealer using oversized casino chips and cards that matched the enormous scale of the table.
The largest game of duck, duck, goose involved 2,135 participants at an event organised by the Logan-Rogersville School District at Logan-Rogersville High School in Rogersville, Missouri, USA, on 7 October 2011. The game lasted for 15 minutes, 55 seconds.
The largest game of head, shoulders, knees and toes involved 1,632 participants in an event organized by Bendigo South East College (Australia), in Bendigo, Australia on 20 October 2010. Primary feeder schools participated in the event that took place inside the college stadium.
The largest game of “He Loves Me He Loves Me Not” consisted of 331 people who picked petals off daisies simultaneously on the set of Lo Show Dei Record, in Milan, Italy, on 18 April 2009. He/She Loves Me, He/She Loves Me Not or effeuiller la marguerite (in French) is a game of French origin, in which one person seeks to determine whether the object of their affection returns that affection or not. A person playing the game alternately speaks the phrases “He [or she]
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The largest game of gaga ball consisted of 481 participants and was organized by Briarwood Day Camp in Furlong, Pennsylvania, USA, on 9 August 2010. Gaga ball is a variation of dodgeball in which participants must hit (rather than throw) the ball and are only eliminated when struck by a ball below the knees.
The largest game of pass the parcel took place on 28 February 1998, when 3,918 students removed 2,200 wrappers in two and a half hours from a parcel measuring 1.5 m x 1.5 m x 0.5 m (4.9ft x 4.9ft x 1.6ft) at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.