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Longest marble track

The longest marble run on sand is 150 m (492 ft 2 in) in length and was achieved by Associazione Bibionese Albergatori ABA in Bibione, Italy, on 29 May 2010. The event was sponsored by UNICEF. In Italy, marble or ball tracks on the beach are a popular pastime for children and adults alike. The game consists in making a track in the sand by hand and flicking plastic marbles around the track. The first person’s marble to reach the end of the track is Continue reading →

Longest marble run

The longest marble run measures 1,286.61 m (4,221.16 ft) and was achieved students of Swinburne University of Technology (Australia), in Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia, on 4 August 2013. Nine students spent a month building the huge marble run in the highest building on campus, starting at the top and ending on the bottom floor. The marble took 10 minutes to complete the run.

Longest Mini 4wd race track

The longest Mini 4WD race track is 1,188.67 m (3,899 ft 10.03 in), and was created by Kazushi Chinone and Hitachioomiya Mini 4WD Daisakusen (both Japan) at Omiya Elementary School in Hitachioomiya, Ibaraki, Japan on 1 February 2014.

Longest milk tooth

The longest milk tooth is from Ahmed Afrah Ismail (Maldives) measuring a total of 2.3 cm (0.91 in) having a crown length of 1.0 cm (0.39 in) and a root length 1.3 cm (0.51 in). The tooth was measured in Male, Republic of Maldives on the 28 December 2000.

Longest migration by a bird

The Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea) migrates the greatest distance of any bird species, breeding north of the Arctic circle and then flying south to the Antarctic for the northern winter and back again, a round trip of approximately 80,467 km (50,000 miles). They make this journey to spend a second summer in the sourthern hemisphere so they can use the long daylight hours for feeding. Most terns travel by sea, feeding as they go, but some do take overland routes such as the Marsh tern Continue reading →