The fastest time to wrap three lunch boxes with wrapping cloth is 22.88 seconds and was achieved by Miyuki Shinohara (Japan) in Tokyo Midtown, in Minato, Tokyo, Japan on 3 May 2013. The record was achieved on the second day of Guinness World Records live event in Tokyo Midtown.
The fastest time to hula hoop 10 km was 1 hr 25 min and 9 sec and was achieved by Ashrita Furman (USA) at Hechsler Park, Huntington, New York, USA, on 12 June 2006.
The hottest chilli is Smokin Ed’s ‘Carolina Reaper’, grown by The PuckerButt Pepper Company (USA), which rates at an average of 1,569,300 Scoville Heat Units (SHU), according to tests conducted by Winthrop University in South Carolina, USA, throughout 2012. The Scoville Unit (SHU) scale is a method of quantifying a substance’s ‘spiciness’, through determining the concentration of the chemical compounds responsible for the sensation, which are named capsaicinoids.
7:32.12 Lin Zhang (China) Rome, Italy, 29 Jul 2009
218 kg Zhang Yong (China) Ramat Gan, Israel 25 April 1998
394 kg Andrei Rybakou (Belarus) Beijing, China 15 August 2008
187 kg Andrei Rybakou (Belarus) Chiang Mai, Thailand 22 September 2007
8:04.53 Alessia Filippi (Italy) Rijeka, Croatia 12 December 2008 ****PENDING FINA APPROVAL***
1:55.82 Jolanda Ceplak (Slovenia) Vienna, Austria 3 March 2002
7:23.42 Grant Hackett (Australia) Melbourne, Australia, 20 July 2009