The longest time holding the breath underwater was 22 min 00 sec by Stig Severinsen (Denmark) at the London School of Diving in London, UK, on 3 May 2012. Stig was allowed to hyperventilate with oxygen prior to the attempt, and did this for 19 minutes and 30 seconds.
The largest bird feeder holds 334.73 kg (760 lbs) of food and was created by the William Greene (USA). It was presented and measured in Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, USA, on 7 January 2012. The feeder contains black oil sunflower seeds, millet, mixed fruits and nuts. The first bird to feed at the feeder was a Black Capped Chickadee within minutes after the feeder was set up.
The aircraft with the largest cargo hold is the Airbus A300-600ST Super Transporter (‘Beluga’). The cargo deck has a volume of 1,400 m³ (49,440 ft³), and is 37.7 m (123 ft 8 in) long, with a maximum height and width of 7.1 m (23 ft 3 in). Its maximum payload weight is 47 tonnes (103,616 lb). The Super Transporter has an overall length of 56.15 m (184 ft 3 in) and wingspan of 44.84 m (147 ft 2 in), with a maximum takeoff weight of
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The largest collection of pedal-powered model vehicles belongs to Phil Collins (UK) and consists of 400 models as of 4 September 2012, housed at The Mill Toy & Pedal Car Museum, in Northiam, East Sussex, UK. Phil Collins favourite model is the E-type Jaguar, which is the first pedal-powered car he bought at the age of 32.
The most expensive sculpture is Alberto Giacometti’s (Switzerland) bronze sculpture entitled L’Homme qui marche I (The Walking Man I) (1960), which sold to an anonymous bidder at Sotheby’s London, UK for a record �65,000,000 (then $104,300,000) on 3 February 2010. The six-foot-tall bronze depicts a wiry man in mid-stride, his right foot jutting forward, his head erect and his arms hanging at his side.
The largest collection of uncut banknotes belongs to Leigh Follestad (Canada) and consists of 212 sheets from 51 different countries, representing 124 denominations as of 10 July 2013, in Penticton, British Columbia, Canada. Leigh Follestad started his collection of uncut banknotes in 1982.
The most people performing push ups is 352, achieved by Laboratorios Silanes S.A. de C.V. (Mexico) at Bosque de Tlalpan Park in Mexico City, Mexico, on 20 October 2012. Bosque de Tlalpan is known in Mexico City as a popular site for runners to meet. During the attempt, 18 participants we disqualified for poor form or inability to complete one minute of push ups.
The fastest unimotorcycle drag race elapsed time is 2.38 seconds, and was achieved by Roman Koltakov (Russia), who covered 100 ft (30.5 m) at the World Ice Championships of Unimotorcycle Drag Racing at Togliatti, Russia, on 21 January 2012. The sport of unimotorcycle drag racing is governed by the American National Unimotorcycle Society Inc. (A.N.U.S.), a unimotorcycle is a single wheeled vehicle which uses some form of skid/ski for stability. According to the ten commandments of unimotorcycle drag racing, in order to be eligible the
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The most people to sign up as organ donors in one hour is 2,755 and was achieved by Prakash Gurjar & Madadgar Parivar (both India), in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, on 17 September 2013.
The largest collection of umbrella covers is 730 covers and belongs to Nancy Hoffman (USA), in Peaks Island, Maine, USA, as of 7 July 2012. To showcase the collection, her house became the site of the Umbrella Cover Museum in 1996. The collection includes covers from 50 different countries and was established as a celebration of the mundane. Nancy held an event to mark the counting of the collection at the museum and guests were invited to enjoy the collection and to sing the museums
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