Magician Luis de Matos (Portugal) taught 52,000 people a simple method to apparently vanish 52,001 silk handkerchiefs simultaneously at the Estádio do Dragão football stadium, Porto, Portugal. The effect (not the lesson) was shown live on RTP television on 16 November 2003. The illusion was part of the stadium’s opening ceremony, inaugurated with a friendly between FC Porto and FC Barcelona.
A record 14 different films made in 1940 were shortlisted for the American Academy Awards (Oscars) for ‘Achievements in Special Effects’, held at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA on 27 February 1941. These 14 included the winner, The Thief of Bagdad (UK, 1940). The other 13: The Blue Bird (USA 1940) Boom Town (USA 1940) The Boys from Syracuse (USA 1940) Dr. Cyclops (USA 1940) Foreign Correspondent (USA 1940) The Invisible Man Returns (USA 1940) The Long Voyage Home (USA 1940) One Million
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Eleven researchers have received Nobel Prizes for work done while they were at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA.
The USA has had a total of 91 outright or shared winners of the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine.
The country with most authors winning the most outright or shared Nobel prizes for literature is France, with 14.
According to the Nobel Foundation, Iceland has 3.36 Nobel Laureates for every 1 million head of population. Sweden runs a close second place with 3.33 Laureates per million.
The most no. 1 singles produced by an individual is 232, achieved by Johnny Kitagawa (Japan) who produced tracks by over 40 of Japan”s best-selling artists from 28 October 1974 to 15 March 2010.
The record for the most one arm push-ups completed in one hour is 1,868 and was set by Paddy Doyle (UK) at the Munster Arms Hotel, Sparkbrook, UK, on 27 November 1993.
The most tickets for a single Olympics Games to go on sale is 8.8 million, for the Games of the XXX Olympiad held in London, UK in 2012.
The most Olympic medals won by a woman is eighteen by gymnast Larisa Semyonovna Latynina (USSR), nine gold, five silver and four bronze, 1956–64.