The largest legal document is an insurance policy measuring 9 m (29 ft 4 in) X 6 m (19 ft 8 in) issued by ING Asigurari de Viata (Romania) and signed in Varna (Bulgaria) on 15 March 2008. The insurance policy was signed by Mr. Bram Boom, who was going into retirement after being the General Director of ING Romania, and was a surprise for him. Carlos Martinez adjudicated.
The largest Lederhosen are 9.02 m (29 ft 7 in) long and 4.51 m (14 feet 9.5 in) wide at the waist, which were made by Gerhard Ritsch (Austria), and measured at Gerberei Ritsch, Mittersill, Salzburg, Austria, on 7 March 2014.
The largest high-definition video screen is an LED display which measures 250 m x 30 m (820 ft x 98 ft) for a total surface area of 7,500 m² (80,729 ft²). It is located at The Place, Beijing, China. The screen is actually composed of five (still extremely large) screens that are arranged in a line to produce one continuous image.
The largest line dance was achieved by 17,200 participants in an event organised by Mouding County Tourism Administration in Chungxiong, Yunnan, China, on 22 April 2009. Left leg dance which is a traditional Chinese dance was performed during the attempt. The participants were dressed up in traditional left leg dance outfit.
The largest lion dance display consisted of 1,111 lions and was organized by the Hong Kong Dragon and Lion Festival Preparatory Committee (Hong Kong) for the Hong Kong Dragon and Lion Festival held in Hong Kong, on 1 January 2011. The lion dance display required 2,222 participants, who danced simultaneously along the streets of Tsim Sha Tsui. The event, organized to coincide with the celebrations for the New Year, also featured two 70-m-long (228-ft) golden dragons parading and dancing alongside the lions.
The world’s largest living tree is General Sherman the giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) growing in the Sequoia National Park, California, USA. It stands 82.6 m (271 ft) tall, has a diameter of 8.2 m (27 ft 2 in) (dbh)* and a circumference of approximately 25.9 m (85 ft). The trunk had a volume of 1,487 m³ (52,508 ft³) in 1980 when it was last measured accurately, but by 2004 it was thought to be almost 1,530 m³ (54,000 ft³). This tree is estimated to contain
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A litter of six pygmy goats was born to ‘Lucy’ owned by Melanie Hall of Julian, Pennsylvania, USA, on 12 March 2006. Five out of six survived.
The largest litter bin mosaic was made up of 6,401 litter bins and was achieved by Trenntstadt Berlin (Germany) at the former Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, Germany, on 18 September 2010. Trenntstadt is a company that tackles waste prevention and recycling in Berlin, Germany. The mosaic measured 2,464 square metres (26,522 square feet 24 square inches) and was created as part of ‘Clean Tech World’, a trade fair focussing on environmental issues such as recycling and renewable energy sources. The mosaic, made out of different
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The largest litter bin measured 7.13 m (23 ft 4 in) tall and 4.76 m (15 ft 7 in) in diameter and was achieved by Realizar Impact Marketing and Modelo (Portugal) at the Parque da Bela Vista, in Lisbon, Portugal, on 20 June 2009. The litter bin was made of aluminium. The bin was made to promote recycling and to encourage people to recycle more. It was divided into four sections with each section for a different material (paper, plastic, glass, cans). The record was
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The world’s largest litter of domestic cats were born on the 7 August 1970 when a Burmese/Siamese cat belonging to V. Gane of Kingham, Oxfordshire, UK, gave birth to 19 kittens, four of which were stillborn. Average for this cat type is 4-6