The most reflective body in the Solar System is Enceladus, a small moon of Saturn. It reflects some 90% of the sunlight that illuminates it, making it more reflective than freshly-fallen snow. Enceladus’ surface is composed of icy material, and its lack of craters, relative to other Saturnian moons suggests that geological activity, such as cryovolcanism, has occurred within the last few hundred million years, and possibly occurs still today. Enceladus as a diameter of 498 km (309 miles).

There are around 100 known but uncontacted tribes in the world, and the most recent to make contact was a sub-group of the Ayoreo-Totobiegosode peoples of the Chaco, a forest stretching from Paraguay to Bolivia and Argentina. In March 2004, a group of 17 Indians – five men, seven women and five children – were forced from the Paraguay forest after cattle ranchers forcibly colonized their territory and occupied their waterholes. The most recently discovered tribe yet to be contacted is a group of at Continue reading →

The most recent nuclear test took place at 0054 hours GMT on 25 May 2009 in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) or, more usually, North Korea. According to the US Geological Survey the underground explosion had a magnitude of 4.7 on the Richter scale with a centre about 70 km (43 miles) northwest of Kimchaek and close to the site of the North Korean nuclear test that took place in 2006. Russian experts believe the yield to have been between 10 and 20 Continue reading →

Several people have been reported as succeeding in juggling eleven rings: Albert Petrovski (USSR) in 1963, Evgeni Bilyauer (USSR) in 1968, and Sergei Ignatov (USSR) in 1973 were all accorded the record, but there is no verification as to how many catches each was able to achieve, whether they managed a flash (11 catches), a qualifying run (22 catches), or something in between. The record for truly juggling a qualifying run with the most rings goes to Anthony Gatto (USA), who made 47 catches with Continue reading →

The most ringers scored by an individual female player in a Horseshoe Pitching World Championship game is 126 by Sylvianne Moisan (Canada) in 2008. A ‘ringer’ is a shoe which comes to rest encircling the stake.

Mahela Jayawardene (b. 27 May 1977, Sri Lanka) has scored 615 runs in 18 innings, at an average of 41.00 runs per innings, in the three ICC World Twenty20 tournaments held to date (2007-10).

The record for most career runs batted in in the postseason is 80 by Bernie Williams (Puerto Rico) playing for the New York Yankees (USA) from to 1991 to 2006.

The most times to lose the Rugby Union World Cup final is two, by two nations. France, against New Zealand in 1987 and Australia in 1999; and England in 1991 against Australia and 2007 against South Africa. Notably, England also won the World Cup when they beat Australia in the final in 2003.

Sachin Tendulkar (b. 24 April 1973, India) scored a record 1,796 runs in Cricket World Cup tournaments from 1992 to 2007.

The most runs scored in women”s Cricket World Cup matches was achieved by Debbie Hockley (New Zealand) who scored 1,501 runs across 45 games between 1982 and 2000.