Tobacco is a 200 billion industry producing six trillion cigarettes a year - about 1 000 cigarettes for each person on earth
Tobacco is a 200 billion industry producing six trillion cigarettes a year - about 1 000 cigarettes for each person on earth
Fastest time to drink a 396g (14oz) bottle of ketchup though a straw was Dustin Phillips of America He managed in just 33 seconds
The world s oldest cake is a wedding cake baked in 1898 by a British pastry maker and it holds the Guinness World Record as the oldest intact wedding cake
This year s (2013) Kumbh Mela at Haridwar India would attract more than 110 million people during the 55 day festival thus resulting in the biggest human congregation at one place
The costliest train robbery ever was in 1963 when over £2½ million was stolen from a train in Buckinghamshire England Only one seventh of the total was ever recovered
The world record for the most monogamous marriages belongs to a man named Glynn Wolfe aka Scotty Wolfe of Blythe California He was married 29 times His shortest marriage lasted 19 days and his longest lasted eleven years
Sensei Keiko Fukuda aged 98 became the first woman to achieve a tenth-degree black belt-the highest rank in the martial art and combat sport Judo To put the accomplishment into better perspective throughout history only sixteen people have ever achieved this hono
The largest living organism is a fungus (Armillaria ostoyae) It covers 2 200 acres (890 hectares) and is responsible for the trees dying in the Malheur National Forest in the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon It is estimated to be at least 2 400 years old possibly olde
The tallest tree in the world is located in a remote area of the Redwood National Park in California It is a coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) that goes by the name Hyperion The tree stands at 379 7 feet or 115 72 m tall and was discovered in the year 2006 (month of August) by two naturalists going by the names Michael Taylor and Chris Atkins
Walter Cavanagh has 1 497 valid credit cards - all of which amount to a 1 7 million line of credit Currently he holds the record for the most credit cards and for the world s longest wallet which stretches 250 feet weighs about 38 pounds and can hold 800 cards But he keeps most of them in bank safe-deposit boxes The Guinness Book of World Records gave him the title Mr Plastic Fantastic and he has been in the book every year since 1971
The world s oldest tortoise died in 2005 at the age of 179 years It was so old it was originally picked up by Charles Darwin from the Galapagos Islands during his famous voyage aboard the HMS Beagle He brought her back to England and named her Harriet He also brought two other tortoises back with him from his voyage Darwin thought all three tortoises were males and named them Tom Dick and Harry Harry turned out to be a female hence the name change