The longest ice bar is a 63.70-m (209-ft) shooter bar carved by Team Ice Pro members Joe Rimer, Max Zuleta, Dawson List, James Ottens and Dominique Colell with the assistance of Ice Alaska, Jay Ulz and volunteers from the city of Fairbanks, Alaska (all USA). It was unveiled during the 2011 BP World Ice Art Championship held in Fairbanks, Alaska, USA, on 5 March 2011. The B-shaped, freestanding ice bar measured 0.85 m (2 ft 9.6 in) high and 0.36 m (1 ft 2.4 in)
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The longest human tooth extracted measured 3.2 cm (1.26 in), which was removed from Loo Hui Jing (Singapore) in Singapore, on 6 April 2009. The procedure took place at the Eli Dental Surgery and performed by Dr. Ng Lay Choo.
Rajiv Nayyar (India) batted for 16 hrs 55 mins, when scoring 271 for Himachal Pradesh against Jammu & Kashmir at Chamba, India from 1–3 Nov 1999.
The longest drum roll by an individual is 12 hr 3 sec and was achieved by Justin Daniel “Bateng” Arde (Philippines) at the Lyceum of the Philippines University Cavite Campus, General Trias, Cavite, Philippines, on 20 November 2013.
The longest jail term to a single person on multiple counts went to Charles Scott Robinson, an American child rapist, who was sentenced on 23 December 1994 by a judge in Oklahoma City, USA, to 30,0000 years, the jury having recommended 5,000 years for each of the six counts against him.
June Middleton of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, relied on an iron lung to keep her alive from contracting polio in April 1949 until her death in October 2009. Ms June Middleton (b. 4 May 1926) spends approximately 16 hours each day on the negative pressure respirator and did so for over 60 years. She died on 30 October 2009 aged 83 having spent just over 60 years in the iron lung. Ref http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1224291/Polio-survivor-spent-60-years-iron-lung-dies-aged-83.html
The longest interval between the birth of triplets was 66 hr and 50 min for the birth of Christine, Catherine and Calvin, children of Louise and Robert Jamison of South Carolina, United States. Christine was born at 3.05 am on 2 January 1956, Catherine was born at 10 am on 3 January 1956 and Calvin was born at 9.55 pm on 4 January 1956. The time is taken from the birth of the first child, to the birth of the third – not for the
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Jackie Iverson (Canada) of Saskatoon, Canada gave birth normally to a boy Christopher, on 21 November 1993, a girl Alexandra, on 29 November 1993 and was delivered of another boy and girl, Matthew and Sarah, (by Caesarean) on 30 November 1993, nine days later. Seah Siew Hwee (Singapore), gave birth to her first quadruplet (a boy) on 14 September 2004 at 9.43 pm. The remaining three quadruplets (all girls) were delivered by Caesarean section on 23 September2004 between 11.34 and 11.36 pm, nine days 1
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A tagged male monarch (Danaus plexippus), released by Donald A. Davis (Canada) at Presqu’ile Provincial Park near Brighton, Ontario, Canada on 10 September 1988 was recaptured on 8 April 1989 in Austin, Texas, USA. It is assumed that this butterfly spent the winter in Mexico as it would not have been able to survive freezing winter temperatures in Texas. Hence, this butterfly travelled at least 4,635 km (2,880 miles) – a distance obtained by measuring a line from the release site to the overwintering sites
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The longest inner tube water slide is Magic-Eye at Galaxy Erding, in Erding, Germany, which is the 356.32 m (1,169 ft 0.32 in) long, as ascertained on 18 November 2010 on Guinness World Records Day 2010. Magic-Eye was opened in May 2007, built by Klarer Freizeitanlagen AG, Switzerland and is 22 m (72 ft 2.14 in) high.