Rob Beaton (USA) ate 23 grains of rice one by one using chopsticks in one minute in New York City, New York, USA, on 12 November 2008. Record attempt taped live on CW 11 Morning News, as part of Guinness World Records Day 2008.
The most Rubik’s Cubes solved whilst running a marathon is 175 and was achieved by Shane White (USA) at the Rock ‘n’ Roll Savannah Marathon in Savannah, Georgia, USA, on 3 November 2012. Shane completed the marathon in under the five hours required in order to make a valid attempt at this record. He ran the course in a time of 4 hr 53 min 39 sec.
The most Rubik’s cubes solved on a unicycle is 28 and was achieved by Adrian Leonard (Ireland) at Mary Peter’s Track in Belfast, Ireland, on 6 October 2010.
The Major League Baseball (MLB) record for most runs batted in by a player in his first game is 6, accomplished by Starlin Castro (Dominican Republic) while playing for the Chicago Cubs in a 14-7 victory over the Cincinnati Reds (both USA) in Cincinnati, Ohio (USA) on 7 May 2010. Castro hit a three-run home run and a three-run triple.
The American League (USA) record for most career saves is 603 by Mariano Rivera (Panama) playing for Major League Baseball’s New York Yankees (USA) from 1995 to 2011. Rivera also holds the all-time Major League record, having recorded all of his saves in the American League. Rivera is still active as of the end of the 2011 season.
The wedding of Chelsea Clinton to Marc Mezvinsky (both USA) on 31 July 2010 at Astor Courts in Rhinebeck, NY, USA, was the most searched for celebrity wedding on the internet. The Clinton-Mezvinsky wedding was the subject of more than double the searches of the previous highest ranking wedding on the Google Zeitgeist list, that of reality TV star Khloe Kardashian and the LA Lakers Lamar Odom (both USA) on 27 September 2009. In a statement released to the press, the bride’s parents said: “Today,
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Gammasphere at the Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, USA is the most sensitive gamma ray ‘microscope’ used in nuclear physics research. It is a cylinder measuring 3 m (10ft) high pierced with 110 gamma ray detectors. These detectors focus inwards to a central target area which is bombarded with ions from a particle accelerator. Gammasphere is so sensitive that it can detect gamma rays produced in these collisions that are 300,000 times weaker than the strongest produced in the collisions.
The National Hockey League (NHL) modern record for most shutouts by a goalie in a season is 15 shutouts by Tony Esposito (Canada) playing for the Chicago Blackhawks (USA) in the 1969-70 season.
The National Hockey League (NHL) record for most shutouts by a goaltender in a single playoff season is 7 shutouts by Martin Brodeur (Canada) playing for the New Jersey Devils (USA) in the 2002-03 postseason. Brodeur led the Devils to their third Stanley Cup championship.
The record for the most shrimps eaten in 3 minutes is 272.1 g (9.6 oz) and was set by William E Silver, Asheville, North Carolina, USA at the Calabash West Restaurant on 26 February 2003. K Hopkins adjudicated the attempt