The longest-running episodic video game series lasted 3 years 316 days, achieved by Telltale Games (USA) for the Sam & Max episodic adventures series. The most recent release, “The City that Dares Not Sleep” was on 10 August 2010. Featured in Guinness World Records Gamers Edition 2011
The longest-running digital trading card game is Magic: The Gathering (Wizards of the Coast), which has been available in computerised forms since the release of the PC Game Magic: The Gathering on 30 September 1997.
Supercells are powerful thunderstorms which form around a mesocyclone, a deep, rotating updraft. At up to several kilometres across, they can last several hours, making them the longest-lasting and largest of all thunderstorms. They often occur on the Great Plains of the USA and can spawn tornadoes.
Andrew Wiles (UK), currently at Princeton University in New Jersey, USA, proved Fermat’s Last Theorem in 1995. He showed that xn+yn=zn has no solutions in integers for n being equal to or greater than 3. The theorum was posed by Fermat in 1630, and stood for 365 years.
Since the 1995 proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem, a problem which stood for 365 years, the current longest-standing maths problem is the conjecture posed by Christian Goldbach (1690-1764), a Russian mathematician, in 1742. Goldbach’s Conjecture states that every even positive integer greater than 3 is the sum of two (not necessarily distinct) primes. No one has succeeded in proving or disproving the validity of this conjecture in 257 years. Mathematicians worldwide hold the Riemann Hypothesis of 1859 (posed by German mathematician Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866)) as
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The longest-running videogame series is Space Invaders (Taito, 1978), which has an incredible 30 years 268 days between its first entry in June 1978 and its most recent version, Space Invaders Extreme 2 (Taito, 2009) on 26 March 2009. Featured in Guinness World Records Gamers Edition 2011
The longest-running social MMORPG is Furcadia (Dragon’s Eye Productions, 1996), which has been active for 13 years 345 days as of 28 November 2010. 2011
The country with the lowest literacy rate in the world in Mali in Africa, where the adult literacy rate stands at 26.2 per cent according to the United Nations Development Programme 2009.
The lowest resting heart beat on record is 27 bpm belonging to Martin Brady (UK, b. 24 March 1969) who was tested at the Guernsey Chest and Heart Unit, Channel Islands on 11 August 2005.
A figure of 870 millibar (25.69 in) was recorded on 12 Oct 1979 by the US Air Weather Service 483 km (300 miles) west of Guam in the Pacific Ocean in the eye of Super Typhoon Tip which involved wind speeds of 165 kts (305 km/h; 190 mph). Barometric pressure is the physical pressure exerted by all of the air above you.