The largest Soul Train dance consisted of 291 participants and was achieved by the Philadelphia Soul Train Line Dancers (all USA), in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, on 13 February 2012. The attempt took 3 1/2 hours to complete.
The Asian giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia) is native to the mountains of Japan and can grow to be 5.5 cm (2.2 in) long, with a wingspan of approximately 7.6 cm (3 in). Its sting is about 0.6 cm (0.25 in) long and can inject a venom so powerful that it dissolves human tissue.
The largest species of river dolphin is the boto (Inia geoffrensis), famed for its striking pink colouration. Inhabiting the Amazon and Orinoco rivers of South America, it attains a total length of up to 2.6 m (9 ft).
The largest cave-dwelling bat is Bulmer’s fruit bat (Aproteles bulmerae), native to Papua New Guinea. Adult females have a wingspan of around 1 m (3 ft 3 in), and weigh approximately 600 g (21 oz). It was known to science only from 9,000-year-old fossils until 1977, when some modern-day preserved specimens were unexpectedly uncovered in a museum. Living specimens were later discovered in a huge cave within western Papua’s Hindenburg mountain range.
The largest member of the family Camelidae is the dromedary or one-humped camel (Camelus dromedarius), with a head and body length of 2.3-3.5 m (7 ft 6 in–11 ft 5 in), a tail length of 55 cm (21 in),a shoulder height of 1.8-2.1 m (6 ft–6 ft 10 in) (maximum 2.4 m 7 ft 10 in) and a weight of 450–690 kg (992–1,521 lb). It is native to the Middle East, but survives today as a feral animal only in Australia and Spain, and as
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The longest species of beetle in terms of body size alone is the titan beetle Titanus giganteus of South America, with a body length of 15 cm (6 in). In terms of total length, the hercules beetle Dynastes hercules (the largest of the ‘rhinoceros’ beetles, also of South America) measure 17 cm (7 in) long, due to a long pair of horns – one extending from the head, the other from the thorax. However, the largest in terms of weight, and indeed the heaviest of
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The largest space hopper race was achieved by 771 participants at an event organised by Yorkshire Cancer Research, Weston Park Hospital Cancer Charity and Cavendish Cancer Care (all UK) at the Don Valley Grass Bowl in Sheffield, England, UK, on 25 July 2010. The event raised £50,000 for the three charities.
The spa resort Mission Hills Haikou has a total area of 176,284.14 m² (1,897,499.1 ft²) and is located in Haikou, Hainan, China. The facility was measured on 17 October 2012. The total area of the buildings is 88,606.33 m² (953,750.56 ft²). The spa includes 90 treatment facilities and several beauty and wellness facilities, in addition to shops, cafes and restaurants. It is surrounded 168 hot and cold springs water features and an aquatic theme park. The outdoor water park features two man-made volcanoes, a swimming
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The largest sousta dance was achieved by 352 dancers at an event organised by Municipality of Archangelos (Greece) in Archangelos, Rhodes, Greece, on 29 September 2013.
The world’s largest known spider is a male goliath bird-eating spider (Theraphosa blondi) collected by members of the Pablo San Martin Expedition at Rio Cavro, Venezuela in April 1965. It had a record leg-span of 28 cm (11 in) – sufficient to cover a dinner plate. This species is found in the coastal rainforests of Surinam, Guyana and French Guiana, but isolated specimens have also been reported from Venezuela and Brazil. A two year old spider of the same species, bred by Robert Bustard and
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