The most film festival awards won in different categories by an individual for one motion picture is five, achieved by Talbot Perry Simons (USA) who was recognised separately as Producer, Director, Writer, Actor and Composer for Still The Drums (2009). Talbot is a long-standing Hollywood actor, with appearances in movies including The Sleepless (1997) and Mr. Saturday Night (1992), starring Billy Crystal.

565; Morten Andersen (Denmark)

Madeline Albrecht was employed at the Hill Top Research Laboratories in Cincinatti, Ohio, USA, a testing lab for products by Dr. Scholl. She worked there for 15 years and had to smell literally thousands of feet and armpits during her career. She has sniffed approximately 5,600 feet and an indeterminate number of armpits.

On 28 January 1986, the space shuttle Challenger was destroyed during launch due to hot gases from a solid rocket booster escaping in a breach and causing the external fuel tank, containing liquid oxygen and hydrogen, to explode catastrophically. All seven crew, Francis ‘Dick’ Scobee, Michael J Smith, Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnick, Ronald McNair, Sharon Christa McAuliffe and Gregory Jarvis (all USA), were killed during the disaster.

The hardiest dog is Dosha, of mixed-breed, who, on 15 April 2003 at the age of 10 months old, slipped out of her owner’s home in Clearlake, California, USA, only to be run over by a car, then shot in the head by police officers (wanting to put her out of pain), and then sealed in a bag and placed in the freezer at an animal centre; she was discovered, two hours later by staff – alive and sitting upright!

Stiv and Roni Bello (Italy) performed 38 consecutive foot juggling flips in 30 seconds, during their performance in Varekai, Cirque du Soleil’s North American Tour at San Jose, California, USA, on 15 February 2003.

The most flash bulbs used to take a photograph is 300 and was achieved by Jason Groupp (USA) in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, on 8 May 2011. The flash bulbs were mounted onto four boards of 75 bulbs each and were triggered simultaneously by radio transmitters. Each board had around $20,000 worth of equipment mounted on it.

The most touches of a football in 30 seconds while keeping the ball in the air is 252 by Parker Kuklinski (USA) at the Portsmouth High School Gym in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, USA, on 12 April 2010. Kuklinksi filmed his attempt with a high-speed camera that recorded the normally 30-frames-per-second video to a speed of 12 frames per second, and set his attempt up against a backlit wall. This allowed for super slow-motion viewing of his attempt plus the ability to view light between the Continue reading →

Ashrita Furman balanced 81 pint (20 oz) beer glasses on his chin for 12.10 sec in his backyard in Jamaica, New York, USA, on 12 August 2007.

The record for most generations of the same family to celebrate a golden wedding anniversary (50th) is five. Generation #1: Philipp Jakob Kober (b.16 June 1776) married Maria Barbara Ullrich (b. 1 February 1775) in Wachenheim, Pfalz, Bayern (Bavaria), Germany. Their marriage lasted 53 years and came to an end when Maria Barbara Kober, nee Ullrich died on 28 September 1849. Generation #2: Susan Kober (b. 21 August 1810), daughter of Philipp Jakob Kober and Maria Barbara Ullrich, married Johannes Machenheimer, Jr. (b. 8 September Continue reading →