The fastest time to print 500 sheets by a colour desktop printer is 7 min 19 sec and was jointly achieved by the Hewlett-Packard Officejet Pro X551dw and Officejet Pro X576dw All-in-One printers as tested in Vancouver, Washington, USA, on 6 April 2012.
The most participants in a 5 km run/race is 86,549 people in an event organised by the Visakhapatnam District Olympic Association (India), in Visakhapatnam, India, on 23 June 2013.
The most ping pong balls caught with chopsticks in one minute is 21 and was achieved by Ryuta Joraku (Japan), during the Park Challenge / GWR Live! in Tokyo Midtown, in Minato, Tokyo, Japan on 1 May 2012. The partner who threw the ping pong balls was Yuki Tominaga (Japan).
At the age of 17 years 8 months, Marc L. Griffin of Greenwood, Indiana, USA was appointed a Justice of the Peace, assuming the post on 19 February, 1974. Marc L. Griffin noticed the record title whilst conducting legal research for a case he was handling. He decided to make his claim as a result, 37 years after having set the record.
King Oyo – aka Rukirabasaija Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV – is the 19-year-old ruler of Toro, a kingdom in Uganda, East Africa. Born on 16 April 1992, he came to power at the age of just three and now rules over 3% of Uganda’s 33-million-strong population. Despite his title, the King’s influence is largely symbolic, as the country is governed by an elected president.
Born on 21 February 1980, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck became the 5th King of Bhutan on 14 December 2006 and, at 31 years old, he is the youngest monarch of a sovereign nation. The Oxford-educated King presides over one of the world’s most isolated countries, a tiny realm in the Himalaya Mountains where progress is measured in terms of “Gross Domestic Happiness”.
The youngest individual Olympic winner was Marjorie Gestring (USA) (b. November 18, 1922), who took the springboard diving title at the age of 13 yr 268 days at the Olympic Games in Berlin on August 12, 1936.
The youngest male golfer recorded to have shot a hole in one is Christian Carpenter (USA) (b. June 6, 1995) aged 4 years 195 days at the Mountain View Golf Club, Hickory, North Carolina, USA on December 18, 1999.
Youngest world champion The youngest female winner of a world title is Tara Lipinski (USA) (b. 10 June 1982), aged 14 years 286 days, when she won the individual title on 22 March 1997.
The animal photographed with the most famous people is a White Maltese dog called ‘Lucky Diamond’ who has been photographed with 363 different famous names including Kim Kardashian, Kristin Stewart, Snoop Dogg, Richard Branson and many more. The count was verified on 20 March 2012. Lucky is owned by Wendy Diamond who continues to embark on having her pet photographed with famous names around the world for publicity on behalf of a number of animal welfare charities. The growing list of famous names also icludes
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