The largest wine tasting event was organised by JD Wetherspoon and involved 17, 540 participants tasting wine in 409 pubs across the United Kingdom, on 21 May 2008. The wine used for the attempt was Fetzer Coldwater Creek Chardonnay, Pinot Grigio, White Zinfandel Rose and Merlot.

Cecil Hepworth’s highly successful release of Rescued by Rover (UK 1904) cost £7 13s 9d (then $37.40). Made at Nettlefold Studios, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, UK, it had a running time of seven minutes and starred Barbara Hepworth as The Baby and the director as The Father. 

The least darts to score 1,000,001 by a team of eight men was 35,698 by Mickey Mansell, Mickey Taggart, Felix McBrearty, Daryl Gurney, Campbell Jackson, Ronan McMahon, Eamonn McGovern and Thomas Stoga (all UK) at The Weigh Inn Bar in Omagh, UK, from 21 to 23 August 2010. The attempt lasted more than 46 hours. Not attached due to size, but included with claim were scoresheets for all darts thrown and video of entire attempt.

The lightest Competitive Body Builder is Thomas Campion (UK) weighing in at 55.5 kg (122.36 lbs), at the British Natural Bodybuilding Federation, United Kingdom, on 2 August 2009. Thomas Campion entered teh over 50’s category for the BNBF Championships and came 4th place in the competition.

The lightest touchscreen mobile phone is the sWaP Nova, which weighs 40.3 g (1.42 oz) and was achieved at the Gadget Show Live in Birmingham, UK on 12 April 2011. It is manufactured by Dyal Trading Ltd. (UK). The phone measures (L)68.5 x (W)38 x (D)16.2 mm (2.7 x 1.5 x 0.64 in).

The world’s lightest tent is the Laser Photon Elite, by Terra Nova Equipment (UK), a one-man tent that has a mass of 587.9 g (20.7 oz), and was weighed in Derbyshire, UK, on 29 September 2010. The mass of the tent includes the inner sheet, flysheet, aluminium pole, guylines, 2 carbon fibre support poles, 2 elastics, 12 pegs, peg bag, pole bag, outer bag and even 1 extra guy line and 6 extra flysheet elastics.

The entire hull of the Advanced Composite Armoured Vehicle Platform (ACAVP) tank is manufactured from E-glass epoxy, a plastic/fibre-glass composite material strong enough to protect its crew from rifle and artillery fire but making it 10% lighter than an equivalent in-service metallic-hulled tank. The prototype vehicle was developed by the British Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) and was first demonstrated in March 2000. It weighs just 24 tonnes (52,910 lb). To provide protection from other tanks additional metal armour is mounted on the outside Continue reading →

The Up series is a British documentary strand which returns to the same set of individuals at seven year intervals to see how their lives have developed. The series began on the 5th May 1964 with Seven UP! (ITV), part of Granada’s World in Action current affairs series, in which a group of fourteen 7-year olds were interviewed about their lives and their desires. The series has inspired similar projects in many different countries and – in the UK programme The 50 Greatest Documentaries (C4 Continue reading →

The longest species of worm of any kind is the bootlace worm (Lineus longissimus), a species of nemertean or ribbon worm, inhabiting shallow waters of the North Sea. In 1864, following a severe storm at St Andrews in Fife, UK, a record-breaking specimen was washed ashore, and was found to measure over 55 m (180 ft) long.

The longest line of bunting is 12,115 m 83 cm (39,750 ft 1 in) long and was achieved by Sharon Le Corre and Cragg Vale Community Association (both UK) in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, UK, on 15 June 2014.