More than 400 World Records & Interesting Facts

1. Pigs are the fourth most intelligent animal in the world.
2. Sharks are immune to disease i.e. they do not suffer from any Disease.
3. Paris, France has more dogs than people.
4. New Zealand is home to 70 million sheep and only 40 million people.
5. The longest life span of a frog was 40 years
6. The name `India' is derived from the River Indus
7. Chess was invented in India.
8. India has the most post offices in the world
9. Until 1896, India was the only source for diamonds to the world
10. A snail can sleep for 3 years.
11. A cheetah does not roar like a lion - it purrs like a cat (meow).
12. The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'
13. Ants don't sleep.
14. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
15. A rat can last longer without water than a camel can
16. About 10% of the world's population is left-handed
17. Dolphins sleep with one eye open
18. Birds don't sweat
19. A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water. If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, one will feel thirsty. If it's reduced by 10%, one will die.
20. An elephant can smell water three miles away
21. The only 2 animals that can see behind themselves without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.
22. Every dolphin has its own signature whistle to distinguish it from other dolphins, much like a human fingerprint
23. 90 % of all the ice in the world in on Antarctica
24. Antarctica is DRIEST continent. Antarctica is a desert
25. Antarctica is COLDEST continent, averaging minus 76 degrees in the winter
26. Mercury is the closest planet to the sun and it doesn't have a moon. Its atmosphere is so thin that during the day the temperature reaches 750 degrees, but at night it gets down to -300 degrees
27. Queen ants can live to be 30 years old
28. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath
29. Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day
30. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people
31. The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!
32. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
33. Women blink nearly twice as much as men
34. Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible
35. Coca-Cola would be green if coloring weren't added to it
36. More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food.
37. Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food!
38. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
39. Owls are the only birds that can see the blue color
40. There was once an undersea post office in the Bahamas
41. Penguins are not found in the North Pole
42. A dentist invented the Electric Chair
43. 259200 people die every day
44. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
45. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear
46. Butterflies taste with their feet.
47. If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights
48. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
49. There are more chickens than people in the world.
50. There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
51. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard
52. On an average, 12 newborns will be given to wrong parents daily
53. Chocolate affects a dog’s heart and nervous system. A few ounces will kill a small sized dog
54. Most lipsticks contain fish scales
55. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
56. The longest river in the world is the Nile
57. The country famous for its fish catch is Japan
58. The tallest tower in the world is the C.N.Tower, Toronto , Canada
59. The country known as the Land of Cakes is Scotland
60. The longest highway in the world is the Trans-Canada
61. The longest highway in the world has a length of about 8000 km
62. The biggest desert in the world is the Sahara desert
63. The largest coffee growing country in the world is Brazil
64. The Japanese call their country as Nippon
65. The world's oldest known city is Damascus
66. The biggest island of the world is Greenland
67. The country which is the largest producer of rubber in the world is Malaysia
68. The country which is the largest producer of tin in the world is Malaysia
69. The river which carries maximum quantity of water into the sea is the Mississippi
70. The country called the Land of Rising Sun is Japan
71. The lowest point on earth is The coastal area of Dead sea
72. The largest bell in the world is the Tsar Kolkol at Kremlin, Moscow
73. The biggest stadium in the world is the Strahov Stadium, Prague
74. The world's largest diamond producing country is South Africa
75. Australia was discovered by James Cook
76. The earlier name of New York city was New Amsterdam
77. The Eiffel tower was built by Alexander Eiffel
78. The national flower of Britain is Rose
79. The national flower of China is Narcissus
80. The permanent secretariat of the SAARC is located at Kathmandu
81. The first Industrial Revolution took place in England
82. The first Republican President of America was Abraham Lincoln
83. The UNO was formed in the year1945
84. The independence day of South Korea is celebrated on15th August
85. The first man to reach North Pole was Rear Peary
86. The primary producer of newsprint in the world is Canada
87. The first explorer to reach the South Pole was Cap. Ronald Amundson
88. The founder of modern Germany is Bismarck
89. The place known as the Roof of the world is Tibet
90. The first woman Prime Minister of Britain was Margaret Thatcher
91. The first Secretary General of the UNO was Trygve Lie
92. The first British University to admit women for degree courses was London University
93. The principal export of Jamaica is Sugar
94. New York is popularly known as the city of Skyscrapers
95. The country known as the Land of White Elephant is Thailand
96. The country known as the Land of Thunderbolts is Bhutan
97. The highest waterfalls in the world is the Salto Angel Falls , Venezuela
98. The largest library in the world is the United States Library of Congress, Washington DC
99. The largest museum in the world is the American Museum of Natural History
100.Human Body in 24 Hours Speak 4,800 WORDS
101.Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear By 700 times
102.A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime
103.The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito
104.Cats respond most readily to names that end in an "ee" sound
105.Snakes are immune to their own poison
106.Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants
107.Despite man's fear and hatred of the wolf, it has not ever been proved that a non-rabid wolf ever attacked a human
108.The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is blue.
109.99% of pumpkins are sold for decoration.
110.Every 30 seconds a house fire doubles in size
111.Ants can live up to 16 years.
112.The most common name in the world is Mohammed
113.The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue
114.You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
115.It is impossible to lick your elbow.
116.The cigarette lighter was invented before the match
117.Most lipstick contains fish scales
118.40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
119.The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.
120.At the first World Cup championship in Uruguay, 1930, the soccer balls were actually monkey skulls wrapped in paper and leather
121.In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at birth to keep them hairless throughout their lives.
122.Our heart beats around 100,000 times every day.
123.We have over 600 muscles
124.We exercise at least 30 muscles when we smile
125.We are about 70 percent water.
126.We give birth to 100 billion red cells every day
127.Shane Warne First Bowler In Test History To Take 700 Wickets
128.First man to reach moon Neil Armstrong and Edvin Aldrin on Apollo XI (1969
129.All hospitals in Singapore use Pampers diapers.
130.The tallest lighthouse in the world is a steel tower at Yamashita Park, Yokohama.
131.The first e-mail sent was in 1971
132.The average lifespan of a cow is 7 years
133.An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
134.When the first U.S. Congress set the president's pay at $25,000 per year, they also established the vice president's salary at $5,000.
135.There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos
136.Denmark was the first European country to legalize same-sex marriages and to offer gay couples/lesbian couples the same rights as heterosexual couples.
137.The world's largest chimney is the number two stack of the Ekibastuz, Kazakhstan, power plant at 1,378 feet (420 meters) tall.
138.Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza ranked as the tallest human-built structure on Earth for more than 43 centuries. Its original height was 481 feet.
139.The first color photograph was made in 1861 by James Maxwell. He photographed a tartan ribbon.
140.Who faced the first ball in the first ever One day match Geoffrey boycott.
141.When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go -- the first is usually sight, followed by taste, smell and touch
142.Over 2500 left-handed people are killed each year from using products made for right-handed people
143.Who is the founder and creator of Hotmail (Hotmail is world's No.1 web based email program) Answer: Sabeer Bhatia
144.Who is the GM of Hewlett Packard Answer: Rajiv Gupta
145.38% of doctors in USA are Indians.
146.12% scientists in USA are Indians.
147.36% of NASA scientists are Indians.
148.34% of Microsoft employees are Indians.
149.28% of IBM employees are Indians.
150.17% of INTEL scientists are Indians.
151.13% of XEROX employees are Indians
152.Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!
153.Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
154.One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year
155.A Boeing 747 airliner holds 257,782 litter of fuel!
156.Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
157.The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum
158.A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth
159.The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth
160.The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable
161.The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds
162.The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times!
163.Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!
164.Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!
165.The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
166.The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
167.One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television
168.You’re born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
169.Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!
170.The state of Florida is bigger than England!
171.During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!
172.Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food
173.About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!
174.More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones!
175.In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals
176.A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate
177.The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly!
178.You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime! Wow!
179.Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
180.Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
181.Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate
182.There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world!
183.An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards
184.One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water
185.More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby!
186.In 32 years. there are about 1 billion seconds!
187.The average person laughs 13 times a day!
188.Dogs can hear sounds that you cant!
189.Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions!
190.The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
191.There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
192.Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints!
193.Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings!
194.Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!
195.The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people
196.In Kentucky, it's the law that a person must take a bath once a year.
197.In Florida, it is against the law to put livestock on a school bus
198.In Singapore, it is illegal to chew gum
199.In Missouri, a man must have a permit to shave.
200.The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
201.What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.
202."Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
203."Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.
204.It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland!
205.Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
206.Someone paid $14,000 for the bra worn by Marilyn Monroe in the film 'Some Like It Hot'.
207.A kiss lasting one minute can burn more than 30 calories.
208.Buckingham Palace in England has over six hundred rooms.
209.Abraham Lincoln's mother died when she drank the milk of a cow that grazed on poisonous snakeroot.
210.The six official languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.
211."Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
212.The loudest sound produced by any animal is 188 decibels. The animal is the blue whale
213.The word four has four letters. In the English language there is no other number whose number of letters is equal to its value.
214.There are more than twice as many kangaroos as people in Australia.
215.The term "bank teller" originated in the wake of the 1929 stock market crash, when banks began hiring low-paid workers to "tell" throngs of frantic depositors that their money was gone.
216.The city of Slaughter, Texas (population: 11,284), has never had a homicide occur within its boundaries.
217.Fewer divorces occur in families in which the children wake their parents before 6 a.m. on Saturdays.
218.A prominent organization of anthropologists has predicted that by the year 5000, humans will have two rectums, but only one nostril.
219.Ancient Egyptians used molted cobra skins as condoms.
220.Female black cats can actually see their shadows at night.
221.Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting
222.Seven out of every ten hockey-playing Canadians will lose a tooth during a game. For Canadians who don't play hockey, that figure drops to five out of ten.
223.Nobody born in Kentucky has ever been elected to Congress.
224.Women who use chewing tobacco are three times LESS likely to accidentally swallow it while they are pregnant.
225.Contrary to the popular saying, 99 percent of the time you lead a horse to water; it'll drink on its own.
226.Over the last two decades, more Americans died of heart attacks while watching horror movies in movie theaters than died while sky-diving.
227.It is physically impossible to urinate and give blood at the same time.
228.Any month that has a Friday the 13th also has a Wednesday the 25th.
229.In 21 states, Wal-Mart is the single largest employer.
230.As you age, your eye color gets lighter.
231.There are more cars in Southern California than there are cows in India.
232.The province of Alberta, Canada is completely free of rats.
233.There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
234.The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
235.Snakes are true carnivores as they eat nothing but other animals. They do not eat any type of plant material.
236.It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.
237.The longest living cells in the body are brain cells which can live an entire lifetime.
238.North Dakota (state of USA) has never had an earthquake.
239.There is enough fuel in a full tank of a jumbo jet to drive an average car four times around the world.
240.Hawaii is moving toward Japan 4 inches every year.
241.Chimps are the only animals that can recognize themselves in a mirror.
242.In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
243.One person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
244.February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
245.More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
246.All major league baseball umpires must wear black underwear while on the job (in case their pants split).
247.If the Nile River were stretched across the United States, it would run nearly from New York to Los Angeles.
248.Abraham Lincoln's dog, Fido, was assassinated too.
249.In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.
250.If the entire population of earth was reduced to exactly 100 people, 51% would be female, 49% male; 50% of the world's currency would be held by 6 people, one person would be nearly dead, one nearly born.
251.Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores.
252.The original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy.
253.The ant, when intoxicated (drunk), will always fall over to its right side.
254.People in China and Japan die disproportionately on the 4th of each month because the words death and four sounds alike, and they are represented by the same symbol.
255.Ten years ago, only 500 people in China could ski. This year, an estimated 5,000,000 Chinese will visit ski resorts.
256.There once was a town named "6" in West Virginia.
257.The chameleon has a tongue that is one and a half times the length of his body.
258.Russian scientists have developed a new drug that prolongs drunkenness and enhances intoxication.
259.Romanian firefighters could not get their trucks close enough to a burning building, so they put out the fire by throwing snowballs at it.
260.McDonald's restaurants will buy 54,000,000 pounds of fresh apples this year. Two years ago, McDonald's purchased 0 pounds of apples. This is attributed to the shift to more healthy menu options (the Apple Pie, which has been at McDonald's for years uses processed Apple Pie Filling).
261.The biggest dog on record was an Old English Mastiff that weighed 343 pounds. He was 8 feet, 3 inches from nose to tail.
262.A Dutch court ruled that a bank robber could deduct the 2,000 Euros he paid for his pistol from the 6,600 Euros he has to return to the bank he robbed.
263.The time spent deleting SPAM costs United States businesses $21.6 billion annually.
264.41% of Chinese people eat at least once a week at a fast food restaurant.
265.More people study English in China than speak it in the United States of America (300 million).
266.For every person on earth, there are an estimated 200 million insects.
267.There are 2,000,000 millionaires in the United States.
268.The busiest shopping hour of the holiday season is between 3:00 pm and 4:00 pm on Christmas Eve.
269.In 2002, women earned 742,000 bachelor's degrees. Men earned only 550,000 during the same year. The difference is growing so large that many colleges now practice (quietly) affirmative action for male applicants.
270.The day after President George W. Bush was reelected; Canada's main immigration website had 115,000 visitors. Before Bush's re-election, this site averaged about 20,000 visitors each day.
271.90% of Canada's 31,000,000 citizens live within 100 miles of the U.S. border.
272.Costco is the largest wine retailer in the United States. Annual wine sales are about $700 million.
273.Only 939 of the 1,400,000 high school seniors who took the SAT in 2004 got a perfect score of 1600. Two of them are twin brothers Dillon and Jesse Smith from Long Island, NY.
274.Even today, 90% of the continental United States is still open space or farmland.
275.Mel Gibson has personally earned almost $400,000,000 from his movie "The Passion of the Christ".
276.The world's largest book, "Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey" is in a Chicago public library. The book measures 5 feet tall by 7 feet wide when open. It weighs 133 pounds.
277.Oprah Winfrey and Elvis Presley are distant cousins.
278.The company that manufactures the greatest number of women's dresses each year is Mattel.
279.La Paz, Bolivia is the world's most fireproof city. At 12,000 feet about sea level, the amount of oxygen in the air barely supports a flame.
280.George Washington spent about 7% of his annual salary on liquor.
281.If you disassembled the Great Pyramid of Cheops, you would get enough stones to encircle the earth with a brick wall twenty inches high.
282.The New York City Police Department has a $3.3 billion annual budget, larger than all but 19 of the world's armies.
283.China is the world's largest market for BMW's top of the line 760Li. This car sells for $200,000 in China - more than almost all people in China make in a lifetime.
284.Life expectancy for Russian men has actually gone down over the past 40 years. A Russian male born today can expect to live an average 58 years.
285.In 1985, the most popular waist size for men's pants was 32. In 2003, it's 36.
286.At General Motors, the cost of health care for employees now exceeds the cost of steel.
287.A woman was chewing what was left of her chocolate bar when she entered a Metro station in Washington DC. She was arrested and handcuffed; eating is prohibited in Metro stations.
288.Quebec City, Canada, has about as much street crime as Disney World.
289.The United States has five percent of the world's population, but twenty-five percent of the world's prison population.
290.The largest McDonald's is in Beijing, China - measuring 28,000 square feet. It has twenty nine cash registers.
291.A house in Baghdad worth $15,000 before the Iraq war now sells for $120,000 to $150,000.
292.There are between 5,000 and 7,000 tigers kept as pets in the United States.
293.The chicken is one of the few things that man eats before it's born and after it's dead.
294.In 2004, one in six girls in the United States enters puberty at age 8. A hundred years ago, only one in a hundred entered puberty that early.
295.The leading cause of on-the-job deaths in workplaces in America is homicide.
296.So far, Congress has authorized $152,600,000,000 for the Iraq war. This is enough to build over 17,500 elementary schools.
297.20% of Americans think that the sun orbits around the Earth.
298.The IRS admits that one in five people who call their help line get the wrong answer to their question.
299.The thong accounts for 25% of the United States women's underwear market.
300.On average, 40% of all hotel rooms in the United States remain empty every night.
301.The largest ocean liners pay a $250,000 toll for each trip through the Panama Canal. The canal generates fully one-third of Panama's entire economy.
302.Almost 20% of the billions of dollars American taxpayers are spending to rebuild Iraq are lost to theft, kickbacks and corruption.
303.There are 40,000 New York City cab drivers, who collectively drive more than a million miles each day.
304.More than 8,100 US troops are still listed as missing in action from the Korean War.
305.82% of Americans made a purchase at Wal-Mart in 2002.
306.The prison system is the largest supplier of mental health services in America, with 250,000 Americans with mental illness living there.
307.Newest trend in the Netherlands: Tiny jewels implanted directly into the eye.
308.Researchers have found that doctors who spend at least three hours a week playing video games make about 37% fewer mistakes in laparoscopic surgery than surgeons who didn't play video games.
309.There are 1,008 McDonald's franchises in France.
310.George W. Bush is probably going to be the eighth president in US history to have completed a term in office without ever having issued a single veto.


311.For the first time in history, the number of people on the planet aged 60 or over will soon surpass those under 5.
312.One out of five people in the world (1.1 billion people) live on less than $1 per day.
313.Five years ago, 60% of all retail purchases were made with cash or check. Now it's 50%. By 2010, 39% of purchases will be made by cash or check.
314.35 Billion E-mails are sent each day throughout the world.
315.The richest self-made American under 40 is Michael Dell, chairman of Dell Computers. He is worth $18 billion.
316.Legislators in Santa Fe, New Mexico, are considering a law that would require pets to wear seat belts when traveling in a car.
317.There are 150,000,000 cell phones in use in the United States, more than one per every two human beings in the country.
318.A Boeing 767 airliner is made of 3,100,000 separate parts.
319.Smallest Dog Living (Length) 15.2 cm (6 in) Florida, USA.
320.5 small cows in a single birth in Mexico.
321.Fastest car window opened by a dog in Canada.
322.Heaviest apple of the world of 2 kg in Japan.
323.Heaviest lemon of the world of 5 kg in Israel.
324.Largest goldfish of the world in Netherlands.
325.World largest Rasta Talash Karain (game) in Ireland.
326.Tallest rose plant in USA.
327.Largest Ski lesson in Canada, 359 Skiers were there.
328.Longest Skis in Italy and 101 skitters were on it.
329.Most durable player of the world is from Chile who played polo for more than 62 years.
330.Most runners in the race of horses in China are 228.
331.The longest time boxing punch exercise is 36 hours.
332.Most Concrete Blocks Broken in a Minute in Turkey.
333.Most distance travel in 24 hours on the machine is 247 km in Hungry by a woman and a man of Chile.
334.The most simultaneous games of chess ever played in one location is 13,446 on 21 October 2006 during the Third Mexico City Chess Festival in Mexico.
335.Martinho Eduardo Orige (Brazil) juggled a regulation soccer ball for 19 hr 30 min non-stop with feet, legs and head without the ball ever touching the ground
336.The most touches of a football in one minute, using only the head, while keeping the ball in the air, is 341 by Gao Chong (China) on the set of Zheng
337.The record for the largest parade of bicycles is 1,901 and was organised by Volvic (Taiwan) in Taipei City, Taiwan on July 21, 2007.
338.A parade of 128 BMW C-1 motorcycles took place at the village of Einsiedeln, Switzerland, on June 12, 2004 as part of the SwissC1:2004 event.
339.By August 9, 2001, Elaine Davidson, of Edinburgh, Scotland, had a record-breaking total of 720 piercings (cuts on the body).
340.Smallest waste on the earth is 15 inch in USA.
341.The biggest balloon of 8 foot filled by a person in UK.
342.The longest Ear hair in the world by an Indian.
343.The longest hair in the world of 18 foot by Chinese woman.
344.The lightest triplets to survive when they were born by emergency Cesarean section at the University of Virginia, USA.
345.Longest fingernails in the world of 24 foot by a USA woman.
346.A blood donation drive organized by Dera Sacha Sauda held at Bapu Ji village, Sriganganagar, India on October 10, 2004 attracted 17,921 donors.
347.The UK's Tony Collins holds the Guinness World Record for the longest wait on a hospital trolley after spending 77 hours and 30 minutes stuck outside the toilets.
348.Wesley Pemberton (USA) had the world's longest leg hair which measured 5 in (12.7 cm) in Tyler, Texas, United States on August 10, 2007.
349.In Australia there is an annual Cockroach Racing Championship. The winning roach scoops a top prize of $500.
350.Most Sheep Shorn in 8 Hours is 50.
351.Heaviest Aircraft Pulled (Individual) by an Australian of Bowing 747.
352.The heaviest weight lifted using only the ear is 61.7 kg (136 lb) by Zafar Gill (Pakistan), who lifted gym weights hanging from a clamp attached to his right ear
353.Jackie Bibby (USA), aka The Texas Snake Man, sat in a bathtub with 87 snakes on 5 November 2007 in Dublin, Texas, USA for 45 minutes as part of GWR Day.
354.The most live rattlesnakes held in the mouth by their tails without any assistance is 10 by Jackie Bibby (USA) for 10 seconds as part of Guinness World Records day on 9 November 2006 in New York City, USA.
355.The longest recorded duration for balancing on one foot is 76 hr 40 min by Arulanantham Suresh Joachim (Sri Lanka) at Vihara Maha Devi Park Open Air Stadium, Sri Lanka, from May 22-25, 1997.
356.A total of 20 members from the Paraclub Flevo of Lelystad, The Netherlands, jumped from a ballon simultaneously at 2,000 m (6,500 ft) over Markelo, The Netherlands, on May 10, 2003.
357.The record for the largest tea party is 32,681 participants and was achieved by Dainik Bhaskar (India) for the City of Indore, at Nehru Stadium, in Indore, India, on 24 February 2008.
358.Largest school of the world with 32114 pupils (young students) in India.
359.Largest human made logo at Portugal stadium for Euro 2004 includes 34309 people.
360.Largest motorcycle pyramid of 201 mans on 10 motorcycles in India.
361.Estrid Geertsen (Denmark, b. August 1, 1904) made a tandem parachute jump on September 30, 2004 from an altitude of 4,000 m (13,100 ft) over Roskilde, Demark, at the age of 100 years 60 days.
362.Largest container of body cream in Greece of NIVEA.
363.The largest swimming pool in the world is in Chile.
364.The largest gold coin of 100 kg of the world is in Canada.
365.The world largest luxury room of a hotel is in Lebanon.
366.The smallest bottle of wine in the world is in USA.
367.The largest mobile (cell) phone of the world is of Sony Ericsson in South Africa.
368.The Smallest submarine (underwater operations) of the world is in Canada.
369.NTT DoCoMo (Japan) is the world's largest wireless internet provider, with 45,687,117 subscribers to their i-mode service as of January 2006.
370.World largest cut diamond is in Belgium.
371.The largest Ruby (precious stone) in the world is in China.
372.The heaviest building 15,140.4 metric tones (33.3 million lb) moved from one location to another in China with the help of latest Technology.
373.The smallest cinema in the world is in Italy.
374.Deepest underwater postbox in the world is in Japan.
375.Highest concrete Dam in the world is in Switzerland.
376.Highest library of the world is in China at 60th floor of Marriot Hotel.
377.Largest film studio in the world is in Hyderabad, India.
378.Largest Rotating Three-Sided Billboard (Advertisement) is in China.
379.The world's largest solar energy roof covers the exposition hall of the Floriade 2002, Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands.
380.Longest rubber Dam of the world is in China.
381.World Highest limousine is in USA.
382.Largest parade of BMW cars is in Netherland of 107 cars.
383.Largest parade of Ferrari cars is in Japan of 490 cars.
384.Largest parade of Fiat cars is in Italy of 500 cars.
385.Largest parade of Mazda cars in New Zealand of 249 cars.
386.Largest vehicle in the world is in Sweden of 82 riders.
387.Largest parade of BMW motorcycle in Switzerland of 128 bikes.
388.Largest parade of Harley Davison in USA of 2118 bikes.
389.Largest parade of Yamaha in Italy of 206 bikes.
390.Largest bicycle of 92 foot in Netherlands.
391.Longest motorcycle of the world in Russia.
392.Tallest motorcycle of the world of 11 foot high and 20 foot long in USA.
393.The deepest concert of the world took place in Norway, North Sea, 994 foot below sea level.
394.The world's longest running TV drama is Procter & Gamble Productions' Guiding Light (CBS, USA), which was first aired on 30 June 1952, and is currently broadcast each week day.
395.Longest drawing of 15297 foot was made in Japan.
396.Longest painting by numbers of 472 foot was achieved in UK.
397.Longest title of a book of 290 words was achieved in Italy.
398.During 2001 Pooran Chandra Pande (India) had 118 of his letters published in the Dainik Jagran newspaper.
399.The smallest book (Quran pak) of the world was published by a Pakistani.
400.Longest model train of 361 foot was made in Germany.
401.The largest collection of bar towels belongs to Robert Begley of Chambersburg, United States, with 2,372 towels representing 27 different countries; which he has been collecting since 1990.
402.David Morgan (UK) has a collection of 137 different traffic cones, world record.
403.Largest collection of key chains of 41418 is in USA.
404.Largest collection of model cars of 8128 is in USA.
405.On December 11, 2004, over 5 million people joined hands to form a human chain, 1,050 km (652.4 miles) long from Teknaf to Tentulia, Bangladesh.
406.Largest card game tournament took place in USA of 330 players.
407.An original pair of Levi Strauss & Co (USA) 501 jeans aged over 115 years old was sold by Randy Knight (USA) to an anonymous collector (Japan) for $60,000 (£33,230) through internet auction site eBay on June 15, 2005.
408.Longest golf cart of the world is in USA.
409.The most simultaneous games of chess ever played in one location is 13,446 on 21 October 2006 during the Third Mexico City Chess Festival in Mexico.
410.The largest TV audience for a wedding occurred on 29 July 1981, during the marriage of HRH Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer (both UK), which was seen by an estimated 750 million people in 74 countries.
411.The longest frame recorded in snooker World Championship match is 74 minutes in the final match between Peter Ebdon (UK) and Graham Dott (UK) at the Crucible in Sheffield, UK on 1 May 2006.
412.The largest tea bag was made by Celestial Seasonings Tea weighing 48 kg (106 lb) and was displayed at the Celestial Seasonings Tea Party, Toronto, Canada on 15 December 2007.
413.The record for most live hours on TV in a week by a host is held by Monta Mino (Japan) who is the regular host of a total of 11 live-broadcast programs every week. He appears on TV as host for a combined total of 22 hours and 15 seconds every week.
414.Col. Ernest Loftus of Harare, Zimbabwe kept a daily diary for over 91 years. He began his daily diary on 4 May 1896 at the age of 12 and continued it until his death on 7 July 1987 aged 103 years 178 days.
415.The highest recorded total of pills swallowed by a patient is 565,939 between 9 June 1967 and 19 June 1988 by C.H.A. Kilner (1926-88) of Bindura, Zimbabwe.
416.The oldest female person to paraglide tandem is Margaret Mackenzie McAlpine who was 100 years and one day old when she completed a tandem paraglide in Karaoglanoglu, Northern Cyprus on 31 October 2007
417.The all-time career earnings record on the US PGA circuit is held by Tiger Woods (USA) with $78,865,376(£39,715,772.97) between 1996 and 2008.
418.A marquee covering an area of 17,500m2 188,350ft2 (1.75ha 4.32acres) was erected by the firm of Deuter from Augsburg, West Germany for the 1958 Welcome Expo in Brussels, Belgium.
419.The largest biryani dish weighed 14.060 tonnes (30,996 lb) and was prepared by the Hindustan Times and Kohinoor Foods Ltd. (both India) in Delhi, India on 1 March 2008.
420.The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), a British lifesaving society, was formed by royal edict in March 1824 and between then and 2007, over 137,000 lives have been saved. In 2006, an average of 22 people were rescued each day.
421.The Sumatra-Andaman Islands earthquake in the Indian Ocean, on 26 December 2004, was the longest-lasting ever recorded. Its duration, monitored by seismometers all over the world, was measured at between 500 and 600 seconds. It had an earthquake magnitude of between 9.1 and 9.3. These results were announced in the journal Science in May 2005.
422.The greatest physical devastation was in the earthquake on the Kanto plain, Japan, of 1 Sep 1923 (Mag. Ms=8.19, epicentre at Lat. 35°15N, Long. 139°30E). In Tokyo and Yokohama 575,000 dwellings were destroyed. The official total of persons killed and missing in this Dai-Shinsai, or great quake and resultant fires, was 142,807.
423.The person who has been best man at the most weddings is Ting Ming Siong, from Sibu, Sarawak, in Malaysia, who has attended as best man at 1,393 weddings between September 1975 and 2 February 2006.
424.The most kisses received in one minute was 78 achieved by Adrian Chiles (UK) on The One Show, BBC 1, London UK on the 8 of November 2007 in celebrations of Guinness World Records Day.


425.The largest football tournament is Copa Telmex, held between February and October 2007, in Mexico and contested by 8,600 teams totalling 148,714 players. The tournament was organized with the aim of improving the quality of life of Mexican youth.
426.The most expensive hair cut cost £8,000 ($16,420) and was made by Stuart Phillips at the Stuart Phillips Salon in Covent Garden, London, UK, on 29 October 2007.
427.Spider-Man 3 (USA 2007) took a record $59.8 million (£29.98 million) on its opening day in the USA on 4 May 2007.
428.The record for the longest concert by a group is 50 hours and was achieved by Comaganin Raaga Priya Light Music Orchestra for the Visually Impaired in Chennai, India, from 27 to 29 April 2007.
429.Walter (Walt) Elias Disney (1901-66) has won more 'Oscars' than any other person, with 26 awards from 64 nominations between 1932 - 1969.