On 20 February 2010, the album In Dub Vol.1 gave Bob Marley & The Wailers (Jamaica) their 35th entry and 12th No.1 on the US Reggae Albums chart. Legend – The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers, with sales of over 10 million in the US alone, is the biggest-selling reggae album of all-time.
In January 2002, Japanese scientists led by Akira Iritani announced that they had successfully implanted vegetable genetic material into an animal for the first time. The genetically modified pigs contain a spinach gene which reportedly will make the pork meat less fatty and thus more healthy to eat. The pigs were born in mid 1998 and no health problems have been reported in them since then.
Most successful lawyer Sir Lionel Luckhoo (b. 2 Mar 1914), senior partner of Luckhoo and Luckhoo of Georgetown, Guyana, succeeded in getting 245 successive murder-charge acquittals between 1940 and 1985.
The most successful horror film series is SAW with a total gross of $733,271,976 (₤481,525,920.92) throughout its 6 installments. This record considers the global grossing of each one of the SAW movies.
The most successful Ryder Cup captain is Walter Hagen (USA) with four wins. Hagen captained the US team to victory in 1927, 1931, 1935 and 1937. Hagen was one the most colourful sports personalities of his time, and is credited with doing more than any other golfer to influence the perception of his profession.
The Australian Royal Flying Doctor Service was set up in 1928. In 2010 the service’s 977 staff treated 276,489 patients, performed 38,852 aerial evacuations and flew a total of 25,592,455 million km, landing 74,214 times.
Ian Richard Purvis of Sunderland, Tyne & Wear, UK ate 236 sweetcorn kernels in 3 minutes, using a cocktail stick on 27 August 2003.
The video game that features the greatest number of instances of the ‘f-word’ is Scarface: The World Is Yours (Sierra, 2006) which uses the famous 4 letter word 5,688 times throughout its 31,000 lines of dialogue and 15-hour single-player story. Featured in Guinness World Records Gamers Edition 2011
The world record for the most swear words in a television programme is 201 in episode 1 of Strutter, produced by Objective Productions and aired on MTV on 9 November 2006.
The record for the most sword swallowers to swallow the same object simultaneously is four and was set when the performers Thomas Blackthorne (UK), Space Cowboy (Australia), Captain Frodo (Norway) and Gordo Gamsby (Australia) swallowed the four steel legs of the same bar stool. The record was established in front of a live audience during a show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, UK, on 21 August 2007.