The longest golf cart measures 6.68 m (21 ft 11 in) from bumper to bumper and was created by HSBC Champions. It was measured in Hong Kong, China, on 8 October 2008. The golf cart is called the “Book mobile”. It is 1.445 m wide and 2.24 m tall. It contains several bookshelves on it.
The world’s longest goldfish (Carassius auratus) is owned by Joris Gijsbers and measured 47.4 cm (18.7 in) from snout to tail-fin end on 24 March 2003 in Hapert, The Netherlands.
The longest gingerbread was 1,052.3 m (3,451 ft 5 in) long and was achieved by Stefan Koch and Konrad Friedmann (both Germany) in Ludwigsburg, Germany, on 18 December 2009. The gingerbread was 50 cm wide and was made from single plates of gingerbread (50 cm x 72 cm), which were glued together with a mixture of icing sugar, water and lemon juice in order to form one piece. In total it consisted of 1,700 kg flour, 1,700 kg honey, 1,000 kg walnuts, 900 kg hazelnuts,
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The common frilled shark (Chlamydoselachus anguineus), an extremely primitive species native to all oceans of the world, has the longest recorded gestation period (pregnancy) of any animal species, namely 3.5 years.
The longest garlic string measured 255 m (836 ft 7 in) and was made for the annual Garlic Festival in Mako, Hungary, on 8 September 2006.
The longest garlic bread is 16.71 m (54 ft 10 in) long and was made by Etienne Thériault (Canada) at École Ola-Léger, in Bertrand, Canada, on 6 July 2013.
Alfred Sleep (USA) jumped a garbage truck a distance of 23.57 m (77 ft 4 in) at Lebanon Valley Speedway, New York, USA, on 22 June 2004.
Animated cartoon group The Chipmunks (USA), who first reached the US album chart on 30 November 1959, made their UK album chart debut with The Squeakquel on 6 February 2010 – over 50 years later. The personnel of the group remained the same, but the voices were provided by Ross Bagdasarian, Jr., the son of the original recording artist Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. (aka David Seville) (both USA).
The longest gaming session in indoor freefall lasted 18 min 52 sec and was achieved by [N] Gamer and Jesse Moerkerk (Netherlands) at Indoor Skydive Roosendaal, Netherlands, on 11 January 2011. Adjudicated by Gaz Deaves. Jesse is a mountain of a man! He’s 6’5″ (190 cm) and 120 kg (265 lb) but he was extremely graceful while suspended in the wind tunnel.
The longest completed sequence of moves on a Simon game is 14 by Joel Berger (USA) at Hasbro Games, Massachusetts, USA on 17 November 2003.