Rosalie Bradford (USA) (b. 27 August 1943) is claimed to have registered a peak weight of 544 kg (1,200 lb or 85 st) in January 1987. Rosalie passed away on 29 November 2006. In August of 1987, she developed congestive heart failure and was rushed to hospital. She was consequently put on a carefully controlled diet and by February 1994 weighed 128 kg (283 lb or 20 st 3 lb). Her target weight is 68 kg (150 lb or 10 st 10 lb).

The world record high dive from a diving board is 53.9 m (176 ft 10 in), by Olivier Favre (Switzerland) at Villers-le-Lac, France on 30 August 1987.

On 30 September 2010 at her home in San Francisco, California, USA, Annie Leung (USA) achieved the highest score on Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Neversoft, 2007) by a female gamer when she racked up a score of 789,349 playing the GH classic ”Through The Fire and Flames”. Annie has been playing videogames since she was a kid, but got seriously into gaming in 2004 when she got hooked on Unreal Tournament (Epic, 1999). Since that time Annie has moved on to the Guitar Continue reading →

The high score record for StepMania using a keyboard as the controller is held by Fredrick Lid Monslaup (Norway), who reached a total score of 99,061,121 at The Gathering, Vikingskipet Olympic Arena, Hamar, Norway on 9 April 2009. The score had a DP rating of 3,880

The highest concert ever staged on land was at 6,069 m (19,911 ft) by Musikkapelle Roggenzell – 10 musicians from Germany and Bolivia – on Mount Acotango, Bolivia, on 6 August 2007. Musician’s names: Clemens Knill, Brigit Knill, Friedrich Hutter, Gerhard Wieser, Tobias Reif, Bruno Deschler, Jurgen Magino, Gislea Woelk, Philipp Knill, Daniel Libovicky

The Spice Girls ranked 20th on Forbes magazines list of the 40 richest entertainers of 1998, with an income of $49 million (£29.6 million).

David Beckham (UK) is still a financial top draw. Of the $40 million (£25 million) he earned in 2009, almost $33 million (£20 million) came via sponsorship. In the 12 months to June 2010 he earned $43.7 million (£30.1 million). Born 2 May 1975

The highest Association Bobbage jump made by an individual athlete is 2m 40cm by Laszlo Fazekas (Hungary) during filming for the International King of Sports TV show in 2002. In Association Bobbage, competitors wearing flippers jump into a swimming pool and attempt to keep their heads entirely above water. The athlete to perform the highest successful jump is the winner.

The highest barometric pressure ever recorded was 1083.8mb (32 in) at Agata, Siberia, Russia (alt. 262m or 862ft) on 31 December 1968. This pressure corresponds to being at an altitude of nearly 600 m (2,000 ft) below sea level! Made more amazing by the fact that the place where it was measured was 262 m (826 ft) above sea level! The highest in Britain was 1054.7mb (31.15 in), in Aberdeen on 31 January 1902. Barometric pressure is the physical pressure exerted by all of the Continue reading →

Since 1984 the Indian and Pakistani armies have faced each other on the Siachen Glacier, in the disputed territory of Kashmir, at a height of up to 6,700 m (22,000 ft), in temperatures as low as -60°C (-76°F). At this altitude, they are higher than climbers standing at the summits of the tallest mountains in Africa, North America, Australasia, Europe, and Antarctica. Reports suggest that Pakistan spends as much as $588,000 (£354,000) a month and India about $1 million (£603,355) a month maintaining troops on Continue reading →