The tallest stack of poppadoms measured 1.57 m (5 ft 1.8 in) and was achieved by Nahim Aslam of the Indian Ocean Restaurant (UK) in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, UK, on 24 March 2011. The stack contained 1,075 poppadoms.
The thickest published book measures 322 mm (12.67 in) in width and was unveiled by HarperCollins in London, UK, on 20 May 2009. All Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple stories – 12 novels and 20 short stories – are collected and published in this volume. The book contains 4,032 pages and weighs 8.04 kg. There are 68 crimes committed; 11 philandering lovers; 68 secrets and lies; 22 false accusations; 59 red-herrings and 21 romances. In all, 43 murders are solved: 12 poisonings; 6 strangulations; 2 drownings;
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The most duets sung in two minutes is 17 and was achieved by Duncan James (UK), accompanied by Rock School students on the set of Guinness World Records – Smashed, in London, UK, on 3 October 2008.
The only bowler to bowl out all ten was John Wisden (1826-84) for North v. South at Lord’s in 1850.
Robbie Williams (UK) is the top-selling album artist in the UK this century with sales of 13,339,555 to October 2010. The top-selling group are Westlife (Ireland), with album sales of 10,740,000 to October 2010.
Mat Hand (UK) ate 211 individual cold tinned peas in 3 minutes using a cocktail stick at the NOW art festival, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK on 8 November 2001. The record attempt took place at the Nottingham Trent University as part of the NOW arts festival. Matt also attempted the record for the most grapes eaten in 3 minutes. He regards the concept of record breaking as ‘performance art’.
Terry Grant (UK) parked a Renault Twingo GT in reverse in a space that was only 15 cm (5 in) longer than the car, at ExCel London, London, UK, on 3 February 2008.
The tightest circumference of two 30 cm (12 in) aluminium frying pans rolled together with bare hands in 30 seconds is 30.5 cm (12 in) set by Jon Pritikin (USA) at Rectory Road Park in Sittingbourne, Kent, UK on 11 July 2007.
The greatest distance run on a treadmill in 24 hours by a mixed team is 437.7 km (271.97 miles) by the members of Forest School (UK) at the Forest School in London, UK, on 4 July to 5 July 2012. The participants included Noel Thatcher, John Macnamara, Edward Watson, Claire Risk, Ben Adams, Wayne Bishop, Mark Clark, Ian Baldwin, Emma Ramsay, Eric Palmer, John “Jack” Skerritt and Tom Arnold. Gold medal winning Paralympian Noel Thatcher was part of this successful record attempt. Each participant ran
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The fastest time to travel the entire New York City Subway is 22 hr 26 min 02 sec and was achieved by Andi James, Steve Wilson, Peter Smyth, Martin Hazel, Glen Bryant and Adham Fisher (all UK) between 18 and 19 November 2013. Andi James, Steve Wilson and Martin Hazel are previous record holders of the record for the ‘Fastest time to travel to all London Underground stations.’