The largest meatball weighs 503.71 kg (1110 lb 7.84 oz), has a diameter of 1.38 m (4 ft 6.50 in) and was prepared by the Columbus Italian Club (USA), during the St. John’s Italian Festival, in Columbus, Ohio, USA, between 5 and 8 October 2011. This attempt was organized by the CIC (Columbus Italian Club) (USA), which has over 300 members. During the attempt only seven members of this association handled the meat before it was cooked. These participants were: Fred Muccio, Mike DiCarlo, Jim
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The largest meat stew weighed 2,328.26 kg (5,132 lb 15 oz) and was made by Diputación de Badajoz (Spain) in Badajoz, Spain, on 25 October 2009. The cooking process started at 9:20 am and finished at 12 pm. The ingredients used were 1,294.6 kg (2,854 lb 1 oz) lamb meat, 150 kg (330 lb 11 oz) olive oil, 207.7 kg (457 lb 14 oz) onions, 1 kg (2 lb 3 oz) paprika, 0.46 kg (1 lb) thyme, 0.238 kg (8 oz) cayenne, 0.2 kg bay
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The world’s largest temporary corn maze measured 163,853.83 m² (40.489 acres) when opened to the public in September 2007 at Coolpatch Pumpkins in Dixon, California, USA . The attempt was organised by Mark Cooley (USA).
The largest permanent hedge maze is the Pineapple Garden Maze at the Dole Plantation in Wahiawa, Hawaii, USA, which has a total area of 12,745.79 m² (3.15 acres) and total path length of 3.962 km (2.46 miles). The maze opened in 1997 and expanded in size in July 2007. This maze also holds the record for the longest path in a permanent hedge maze.
A block 2.7 m (9ft) long by 2.4 m (8 ft) wide, estimated to weigh 59 tonnes, is the largest known meteorite. It was found in 1920 at Hoba West, near Grootfontein in Namibia.
The largest metal nail mosaic was 8m2 (86.11 sq. feet) by Saimir Strati (Albania) and displayed at the Arbnori International Centre of Culture, Tirana, Albania on 4 September 2006. Measurements: 4m high 2m wide (13.12ft x 6.56ft) Over 300,000 metal nails used Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci
The record for the largest menu consists of 1810 different items achieved by the restaurant Mofarguru (Hun) in Budapest, Hungary since 1 October 2005.
The largest menorah in the world was designed by Yaacov Agam and is 32 ft (9.7 m) tall, 28 ft (8.5 m)wide, weighs 4,000 lb (1,814 kg) and was unveiled on 29 December 2005 opposite Central park, New York, USA. The menorah was designed according to a hand drawing by Mimonides based on the original Menorah in the Holy Temple of Jerusalem and is the largest size permitted by Halacha-Jewish law.
The largest melodica ensemble consisted of 158 children from the Jyosei Elementary School (Japan) in Hikone, Shiga, Japan, on 18 November 2010 in celebration of Guinness World Records Day. The children aged between 7-9 years old played Twinkle Twinkle Little Star for five minutes. Ms Kuniko Teramura conducted the ensemble.
The Wellcome Trust, established in 1936 as part of the will of Sir Henry Wellcome (1853-1936), has an asset base of £12 billion ($19.46 billion), due to the merger of Wellcome plc with Glaxo in 1995, which left the Wellcome Trust with a 4.7 per cent stake in the new company, Glaxo Wellcome. The Trust has an annual expenditure of £400 million ($648 million). The directive of its founder was that his charity should support: ‘scientific research which may conduce to the improvement of the
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