A peak reading of 134.1dBA was recorded while measuring the Factory Steam Whistle at The New York Wire Company, York, Pennsylvania, USA on 12 December 2002. The measurement was taken during the annual playing of Christmas Carols, the only time the whistle is now used. On a calm night the whistle can be heard within a five mile radius.
The lowest motorcycle backflip ever completed was 91 cm (3 ft) off the ground and was achieved by Travis Pastrana (USA) at Godfrey Trucking/Rocky Mountain Raceway in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, on 17 November 2008 for the MTV show ‘Nitro Circus’. The distance measured in this case was the lowest part of the rider’s body while in rotation, i.e. the head. The GWR episode will air January 2009.
The lowest manmade temperature achieved to date is 450 picokelvin above absolute zero. It was achieved by a team of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, led by Aaron Leanhardt. The team members were: A.E. Leanhardt, T.A. Pasquini, M. Saba, A. Shirotzek, Y. Shin, D. Kielpinski, D.E. Pritchard and W. Ketterle. Their research was published in Science magazine on 12 September 2003.
The country with the lowest literacy rate in the world in Mali in Africa, where the adult literacy rate stands at 26.2 per cent according to the United Nations Development Programme 2009.
As of 2010 inhabitants of Angola can expect to live for an average of only 38.48 years. For males the average is 37.48 years and for females the average is 39.52 years. Angola has a total population of 13 million.
The lowest resting heart beat on record is 27 bpm belonging to Martin Brady (UK, b. 24 March 1969) who was tested at the Guernsey Chest and Heart Unit, Channel Islands on 11 August 2005.
Using Shell’s new Fuel Economy Formula and driving an unmodified car, John and Helen Taylor (both Australia) circumnavigated the globe from 17 January to 4 April 2006 – covering a minimum of 28,970 km (18,001 miles) – in just 24 refuels, setting the world record for the lowest ever fuel consumption.
Robert Gallup (Australia) was leg manacled, handcuffed, chained, put into a secured mail bag and then locked in an 0.74 m² (8 ft²) cage before being thrown out of a C-123 transport plane at 5,485 m (18,000 ft) above the Mojave Desert, California, USA. With less than a minute before impact and travelling at 240 km/h (150 mph), he escaped from the sack and cage to reach his parachute secured on the outside of the cage and was able to deploy it with enough altitude
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The lowest score below the player’s age for a round of golf is shared at 17, when 89 years old James D. Morton (USA) hit a 72 at Valleybrook Golf and Country Club, Hixson, Tennessee, USA, on 21 April 2001. 89 years old Keith Plowman (NZ) also hit 72 at Maungakiekie Golf Club, Auckland, New Zealand, on 20 November 2007. This record is shared by Claim ID 216967 and 61274
A figure of 870 millibar (25.69 in) was recorded on 12 Oct 1979 by the US Air Weather Service 483 km (300 miles) west of Guam in the Pacific Ocean in the eye of Super Typhoon Tip which involved wind speeds of 165 kts (305 km/h; 190 mph). Barometric pressure is the physical pressure exerted by all of the air above you.