The oldest recorded active judge was Judge Albert R. Alexander (1859-1966) of Plattsburg, Missouri, USA. He was enrolled as a member of the Clinton County Bar in 1926 and was later the magistrate and probate judge of Clinton County until his retirement on 9 July 1965 aged 105 years 8 months . The greatest recorded age at which any British judge has sat on a bench was 93 years 9 months in the case of Sir William Francis Kyffin Taylor (later Lord Maenan), who was Continue reading →

Longest serving executioner The longest period of office for a public executioner is 45 years (1829-1874), served by William Calcraft (1800-79), who officiated at nearly every outdoor and indoor hanging at Newgate Prison, London, UK.

The longest-serving captain of any team in National Hockey League (NHL) history is 20 seasons by Steve Yzerman (Canada) who continuously served as the captain of the Detroit Red Wings (USA) from 1986 to 2006. Yzerman led the Red Wings to three Stanley Cup championships (1997-98, 2002) and had his jersey No. 19 retired in a ceremony at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan, USA on 2 January 2007.

The longest script used in a graphic adventure videogame for Heavy Rain (Quantic Dream, 2010) which included over 40,000 words of dialogue. Featured in Guinness World Records Gamers Edition 2011 The game’s script ran to over 2,000 pages including stage directions and during development 70 actors and stuntmen were motion-captured in order to produce the game’s high-tech animation.

The longest submarine mountain range is the Mid-Ocean Ridge, extending 65,000 km (40,000 miles) from the Arctic Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean, around Africa, Asia and Australia, and under the Pacific Ocean to the west coast of North America. It has a greatest height of 4,200 m (13,800 ft) above the base ocean depth.

The first game made for the Neo Geo MVS arcade hardware, Magician Lord, was released in 1990, with the last game on the system, Samurai Shodown V Special, released in 2004, 14 years later. No other arcade system has been in active use for a longer period of time. Featured in Guinness World Records Gamer”s Edition 2010

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) SMART 1 spacecraft was launched on 27 September 2003 and arrived thirteen months later on 15 November 2004. Its engine, with a maximum thrust of 0.07 Newtons (0.016 lbs), gradually pushed the spacecraft into larger and larger orbits of the Earth until it was captured by the Moon’s gravity into a lunar orbit. SMART 1 is the second interplanetary mission, after NASA’s Deep Space 1, to use an ion engine for propulsion.

From 7 April 1984 to 11 January 1990 E.Coli bacteria cells survived unshielded onboard NASA’s Long Duration Exposure Facility satellite, in low Earth orbit. The cylindrical satellite and its 57 experiments were retrieved by the space shuttle Challenger. Hardware samples removed from the US unmanned lunar probe Surveyor 3 were returned to Earth by the crew of Apollo 12 in November 1969. Upon analysis of the hardware it was discovered that bacterial organisms (Streptococcus mitis), that had contaminated Surveyor 3 before its launch on 17 Continue reading →

Richard Presley (USA) spent 69 days 19 min in a module underwater at a lagoon in Key Largo, Florida, USA from 6 May to 14 July 1992. The test was carried out as part of a mission entitled Project Atlantis which had as its aim to explore the human factors of living in an undersea environment.

Excluding cases of elephantiasis, then the longest toes ever measured were the ‘big’ toes belonging to Matthew McGrory (USA, 1973-2005) at 12.7 cm (5 in) long. His little toes measured 3.81 cm (1.5 in).