The Pacific Ring of Fire is a huge horseshoe-shaped arc of concentrated earthquake and volcanic activity around 40,000 km (24,800 miles) long, located in the Pacific Ocean. It contains some 452 volcanoes and more than 75% of the active and dormant volcanoes in the world.
The greatest number of man/hours an industrial site has had a registered zero accidents, is 211,600,000 for Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Semiconductor Business Kiheung Site, Yongin City, South Korea between 4 Nov 1991 and 20 Aug 1998.
The gizzard is the portion of a bird’s stomach that grinds food into small pieces. The world’s strongest recorded gizzard is that of the turkey Meleagris gallopavo. One specimen had crushed 24 walnuts in their shells within 4 hours, and had also ground surgical lancet blades into grit within 16 hours.
The most gold medals won by any player is three, achieved by Soviet players Vitaliy Semyenovich Davydov, Anatoliy Vasilyevich Firsov, Viktor Grigoryevich Kuzkin and Aleksandr Pavlovich Ragulin in 1964, 1968 and 1972, Vladislav Aleksandrovich Tretyak in 1972, 1976 and 1984, and by Andrey Khomutov in 1984, 1988 and 1992.
The most goals scored in an NHL season is 92 by Wayne Gretzky (Canada) for the Edmonton Oilers in the 1981/82 season.
The most games played in a professional ice hockey career is 2421 games by Gordon `Gordie’ Howe (Canada) (b. March 31, 1928) from 1946 to 1980. The total is made up of 1767 regular season games and 157 play-off games, over a record 26 seasons, from 1946 to 1971 for the Detroit Red Wings and in 1979/80 for the Hartford Whalers in the NHL, 419 regular season games and 78 play-off games for the Houston Aeros from 1973-1977 and for the New England Whalers from
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Muttiah Muralitharan (b. 17 April 1972, Sri Lanka) has taken 515 wickets in 18,169 balls, at an average of 23.07 runs per wicket, in 337 One-Day Internationals since 1993.
Bruce Sarafian (USA) was the first person to flash twelve balls when he attempted the feat in 1995. Peter Bone (UK) and Sam Hartford (USA) have since also done twelve-ball flashes. Using beanbags, Alex Barron (UK) achieved one throw better than a twelve-ball flash, making a 13 bag flash in 2010.
The deepest manned ocean descent was achieved by Dr Jacques Piccard (Switzerland) and Lt. Donald Walsh (USA) who piloted the Swiss-built US Navy bathyscaphe Trieste to a depth of 10,911 m (35,797 ft) in the Challenger Deep section of the Mariana Trench on 23 January 1960. Challenger Deep is thought to be the deepest point on earth and is situated 400 km (250 miles) south-west of Guam in the Pacific Ocean (™ Oceans deepest).
The most World Rally Championship race wins in a season is ten by Sébastien Loeb (France) in the 2008 season. Sebastien won 10 races out of 14 during 2008. This betters his tally for 2007 which was eight.