The most vinyl records smashed in 30 seconds by a team is 38 was achieved by EMC Corporation (United States) and the YiDojang Martial Arts team consisting of Stephen Pang, Chan Kok Pheng, Quek Boon Hock, Ang Soon Chuah, and Tan Yong Chen (all Singapore), at the EMC Briefing Center, Singapore, on 14 January 2011.
The most vinyl records smashed in 30 seconds was 38 achieved by Ashrita Furman (USA) at the Enthusiasm T-Shirt Screen Printing and Design office in Jamaica, New York, USA, on 29 March 2011.
The most waist circumference measurements taken in eight hours is 683 and was achieved by Dr. Sathyanarayanan Venkataswamy (India), in Kanchipuram, Tamilnadu, India, on 20 October 2013.
The most volunteer hours worked is 77,019 and was achieved by Viola Cocran (USA) who volunteered at Slidell Memorial Hospital in Slidell, Louisiana, USA, since its opening in 1959 until her retirement on 31 March 2012, aged 89 years. Colleagues at the Slidell Memorial Hospital said that ‘Viola Cocran is a wonderful example of what it means to “give back” to the community, and she gave so much to so many through her volunteer hours.’ She ‘will always be remembered as the volunteer that you
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The most volleyball smashes completed in one minute by a team of four is nine and was set by Stephane Mathurin, Denis Damel, Sebastien Le Bosse and Stephane Faure (all France) on the set of L’Ete De Tous Les Records, in Soulac, France on 15 August 2005.
The most vocals in one song was achieved by 200 participants visiting La-Part-Dieu shopping centre, whose voices were recorded separately to make an original composition at La-Part-Dieu shopping centre, Lyon, France, on 4th-7th May 2010. The participants all sung only a line or word each of the original composition song, entitled ‘La Grande Chanson du Monde’ (The Greatest Song in the World). The event was in conjunction with the inauguartion of the extension of the shopping centre. Visitors, shoppers of the centre and inhabitants of
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The most prolific space tourist is the Hungarian-born US-software billionaire Charles Simonyi (USA). Simonyi paid $25m (then £12.5 million) for his first trip on a Russian Soyuz rocket on 7 April 2007, the first stage of a 12-day visit to the International Space Station (ISS). Two years later, at the age of 60, Simonyi paid $35m (£24m) for a second voyage, also to the ISS, departing on 26 March 2009, returning to Earth 9 April 2009.
Since it opened in Japan in 1996, “Body Worlds: Fascination beneath the Surface,” by Gunther von Hagens (Germany), has travelled to 16 cities and as of March 2004 had received a total of more 14.165 million visitors – making it the world´s most visited travelling art exhibition.
The most unique visitors to a personal blog in 24 hours is 230,755 and was achieved by Yusuke Kamiji’s blog (Japan), on 12 April 2008. Cyber Agent Inc., the operator of the blog media ¡¥Ameba¡¦ measured and collecting the log data. number of comments: 56,018 comments posted to one article (17th April 2008) (the link to the article: http://ameblo.jp/kamijiyusuke/entry-10089041905.html)
The most weight squats lifted in 3 minutes with a minimum of 200 kg (440.92 lbs) is 29 and was achieved by Shaun Jones aka Mr Remarkableman (UK) on the set of Lo Show Dei Record, Milan, Italy, on 1 April 2011. The weight lifted at each squat was 200 kg (440.92 lbs), which included the weight of the bar. Therefore, Shaun Jones aka Mr Remarkableman lifted a total weight of 5,800 kg in 3 minutes.