The most prolific record breaker on Boom Blox (EA, 2009) is Marc Cohen (USA), who holds the highest score on 12 of the 24 master challenges as of October 2010. Featured in Guinness World Records Gamers Edition 2011

The most prolific publisher or MMORPGs is NCsoft (Korea), which has released 24 titles in the genre as of October 2010 Featured in Guinness World Records Gamers Edition 2011

At its peak in 1989 Progress Publishers of Moscow, USSR, printed over 750 titles in 50 languages annually. Progress Publishers was founded in 1931 as the Publishing Association of Foreign Workers in the USSR.

The most prolifically-updated MMORPG is Runescape (Jagex, 2001), which has been supplemented with extra features 465 times as of November 2010.

The Associated Press (founded 1848) has received 49 Pulitzer Prizes – more than any other news organisation.

Chris Geiger (UK) had his feature article on cancer awareness published in 19 different newspapers worldwide on 4 February 2011. The article was printed in its entirety, unabridged, in all of the printed daily publications, on the same day. Chris Geiger (b. 1966) is a writer and columnist for a number of newspapers and magazines. After being diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 1992 he underwent two years of treatment, which included radiotherapy, chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant. He is now fully recovered. The article Continue reading →

The GNP of Georgia decreased by an average of 16.3% in the decade ending 1996, the current most rapid decline for a sovereign state. The GNP of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank have decreased by nearly 17% over the same period; these territories have been virtually blockaded by Israel since 1993. As a result the GDP of the Palestinian entity has fallen by 30% (according to UN economists) or by 35% (according to UN statisticians) in the period 1992-8.

Most rainy days – world Mt Wai-`ale-`ale (1569m 5148ft), Kauai, Hawaii has up to 350 rainy days per annum.

The red-coloured bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans can resist 1.5 million rads of gamma radiation, about 3,000 times the amount that would kill a human. The bacterium survives and reproduces in environments that would be lethal for any other organism and it also resists high doses of ultraviolet radiation. The most important component of this radiation resistance is the ability of the bacteria to repair damage to its chromosomal DNA. Researchers hope that they can manipulate it in such a way that it will be able to Continue reading →

longest lifespan is Tiger Woods PGA Featured in Guinness World Records Gamer”s Edition 2010