The circus clown with the largest boots was Coco (Latvia) (b. Nicolai Poliakoff), who took a size UK58 (US 58½). In 1929 he joined the Bertram Mills’ Circus (UK), and apart from a gap when he served in the British army during World War II,  he returned to work with them afterwards. 

David Copperfield’s (USA) International Museum and Library of the Conjuring Arts, which was founded in 1991, contains over 150,000 props, books, posters and other historical ephemera related to conjuring,of which 90,000 items are on display, making it the largest private collection of magic artifacts. The collection is housed in a 2,601 m² (28,000 ft²) building in Nevada, USA. The oldest item in the collection is “Spiritalium Liber” Urbino, a book by Hero of Alexandria, published in 1575. Other treasures in the collection are: Houdini’s Water Continue reading →

The largest collection of handmade aeroplanes belongs to John Kalusa (USA) who has created 5,737 wooden aeroplanes since 1936. The collection is currently housed in the library of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, Arizona, USA. The models in John’s collection are built to a 1/18-inch-to-a-foot scale to ensure that all aircrafts have the exact size relationships to one another. Each model is painted with the exact details and markings from the original aircraft, using simply a broken razor blade, balsa wood, glue, watercolours, clear sealant, bamboo Continue reading →

There are 587 stone lithograph magic posters on display within the collection belonging to Norm and Lupe Nielsen (both USA). The collection, which today consists of approxinately 2,000 contemporary and vintage posters began in 1991, with two Fu Manch posters that were in pieces, out of which was made one to frame. Within the collection are 34 Houdini posters, 14 of which are coloured lithographs (four are 3-sheets and two are 8-sheets). As of 12 March 2005,  those vintage posters on diplay included:- 18     Window Cards Continue reading →

The largest collection of Super Mario memorabilia contains 5,441 individual, unique items and belongs to Mitsugu Kikai (Japan). It was counted in Tokyo, Japan on 15 July 2010. Featured in Guinness World Records Gamers Edition 2011

The Soviet Polyus satellite was a prototype orbital weapons platform measuring 37 m (121 ft 4 in) long, 4.1 m (13 ft 5 in) in diameter and with a mass of 80 tonnes (176,370 lb). It was equipped with an anti-satellite recoilless cannon, a sensor blinding laser to confuse hostile satellites and a nuclear space mine launcher. Only one was ever launched, on 15 May 1987. It failed to reach orbit and crashed into the Pacific Ocean. It is unclear which weapon systems from its Continue reading →

The largest recorded colony of ants in the world stretches 6,000 km (3,700 miles) from northern Italy, through the south of France to the Atlantic coast of Spain, and is made up of a species of Argentine ant (Linepithema humile) introduced into Europe approximately 80 years ago.  The ants have shown the ability to recognise each other even though they may come from opposite ends of the colony. The discovery of  the ‘supercolony’ is the result of research carried out by Swiss, French and Danish Continue reading →

The largest commercially available jigsaw puzzle has 32,256 pieces and was manufactured by Ravensburger AG (Germany) in September 2010.

The country with the largest consumption of energy per head is Qatar, which consumed an average of 22,057 kg (48,627 lb) of oil equivalent per person in 2006. Iceland was in second place with 14,237 kg (31,387 lb), while USA, which is the greatest annual consumer of energy, is 10th on the list with 7,768 kg (17,125 lb).

The largest console based gaming network is Xbox Live, launched in November 2002. It started off as an online gaming service, but went on to include downloads, movie renting and more. By November 2007, more than 8 million users had signed up.