World Amazing Records

In celebration of its 55th birthday, East 60th Street’s Serendipity 3 -- home of the famous frozen hot chocolate – set a world record for Largest Cup of Hot Chocolate on Monday. The cup used clocks in at four gallons, more than 100 times the size of the restaurant’s standard serving of hot chocolate. Stephen Bruce, S3’s owner/founder/Walt Disney lookalike mixed up the giant creation himself, with a little help from kitchen staffers, using the restaurant’s traditional hot chocolate mix, only...

Mexico City residents lined up on Sunday for a piece of a massive traditional holiday sweet bread weighing over ten metric tons, a world- record-smashing size, according to city officials. The massive pastry, a popular bread called the "rosca de reyes" that appears around the Three Kings holiday in Mexico, measures 720 meters long and used over 50,000 eggs and 2,900 kilos of sugar.The national bakers' association has sponsored the creation of the huge " rosca" for the last three years in the...

The tallest skyscraper has been built by Dubai. Today, on Monday, Dubai is going to inaugurate the largest and tallest skyscraper of the world with hope that it will help Dubai to make an end of the present recession that hit UAE badly and especially Dubai. Burj Dubai, 160 story-building, took $1.5 billion Dollars to build i.e. approximately $9 million per floor. The exact height of the skyscraper was not released by the builders because it was scheduled to be announced today at the time of...

The world record for "most expensive virtual item sold" has been raised, as a man has purchased real estate in Entropia Universe for a staggering $330,000 in real-world money. Despite not being a household name like World of Warcraft or Second Life, Entropia Universe is one of the most interesting virtual worlds out there simply because it fully embraces the concept of RMT - that is, real-money transactions: Paying real cash for virtual stuff. The in-game currency, or PED, has an exchange...

An Israeli illusionist Hezi Dayan spent 66 hours in an eight-tonne block of ice, breaking the record of the American magician David Blaine. An Israeli illusionist spent 66 hours in an eight-tonne block of ice, breaking the record of the American magician David Blaine. Hezi Dayan, 29, had himself sealed into a specially constructed transparent ice cube in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square, where he apparently stayed for nearly three days wearing just jeans and a thin T-shirt. "My aim," Mr Dayan told...

A jewellery designer has come up with the ultimate ' green' collection - rings with live plants growing inside them instead of precious stones. Featuring tiny Icelandic moss plants sprouting in their stainless steel bases, the pieces are said to be a 'clash of jewellery and gardening'.They need watering like any other plant and if looked after, designer Hafsteinn Juliusson claims they can last up to six months. But they don't need to be pruned because, according to Mr Juliusson, the moss...

Britain's oldest twins Betty Richards and Jenny Pelmore have a double reason to celebrate New Year's Day - it is also their 102nd birthday. The sprightly siblings came into the world on January 1, 1908 - the year Henry Ford produced his first Model T car. They were born in Manchester when King Edward VII was on the throne and the doctor who delivered them arrived - on horseback Betty and Jenny are both widowed and still live near each other in Feock, near Truro, Cornwall. They plan to...

On Friday 14th December The Children's Society set a new record for the Worlds Biggest Christmas Stocking. An adjudicator from the Guinness World Records measured it at 32.56m (in the leg) by 14.97m (heel to toe), smashing the last record set by a group in Canada just weeks ago. Thousands of knitted red squares were sent in by supporters who were sponsored to knit to raise money for the Children's Society. We beat our target for squares and raised a staggering £14,000 which will be used to...

Colin Corfield at one point was bed-ridden and relied on a patient relay of friends and family to bring enormous meals to his room. But now the 41-year-old weighs a healthier 16-stone after a gastric bypass operation he underwent. Surgeons shrunk his stomach to the size of an egg in a risky procedure that forced him to quit his addiction to food overnight.He cannot eat meals any larger than a mince pie without feeling sick.Mr Corfield, of Oak Court, Runcorn said: "The operation was the best...

Popular United States-based Caribbean publication, Everybody's Magazine, has named Jamaica's sprint superstar Usain Bolt as its 'Person of the Year'. Bolt, 23, superbly sustained his label in 2009 as the world's premier sprinter with awesome world record times in the 100 and 200 metres at the IAAF World Championships in Germany four months ago."People around the globe, who follow major sporting events, most likely will consider our choice a no-brainer," said the Brooklyn-based Everybody's...

A disability charity is asking people to ring in the New Year by helping it break a world record for recycling mobile phones. Scope, which has shops in Fakenham, Norwich and Great Yarmouth, wants people to start 2010 by donating their old mobile phones to the charity.Scope receives a cash donation for every phone donated and all phones handed into the charity's shops between Friday, January 8 and Friday, January 15 will go towards Scope's aim to break the world record for collecting the...

The inclusion of technological words was seen as a reflection of the influence that social networking sites have had on English vocabulary. The list was chosen by Susie Dent, the dictionary expert on Channel 4’s game show Countdown, who scanned the Oxford English Corpus, a two billion word database. "Unfriend", meaning to remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a site such as Facebook, was voted the New Oxford American Dictionary’s word of the year in America, and is included along with its alternative defriend. "Tweetups", which are meetings or other gatherings organised by means

Deb Hoffmann is sprawled out in all her glory, a two-page centerfold in a book that will sell 4 million copies in more than 100 countries and 25 languages this year, according to its publisher.Her glory, lest your mind be elsewhere, is in a mattress of yellow and red - her collection of about 4,500 Winnie-the-Pooh bears, sidekicks and memorabilia - surrounding her fully clothed body. The book is the 2010 Guinness World Records, released in September. It prominently features Waukesha County's...

The pair ended their 36-year marriage when they were both two years away from their 100th birthdays. They got married in Elstree, Hertfordshire, in 1972, having both ended previous marriages, before moving to Falmouth Cornwall four years later. However, by 2008, when they were both aged 97, their relationship faltered and a decree absolute is believed to have been granted subsequently.According to neighbours of the former couple, Mrs Wood now lives in a care home. Mr Wood died shortly before...

A DONKEY in Belper could be the oldest in the world – according to her owner. The average lifespan for a donkey is 25-30 years but Rosie is thought to be close to doubling that.Owner Lesley Manger, 72, says she has been led to believe that her donkey is 54 years old.Based on the theory that one year of a donkey's life is equivalent to about three years of a human's life, Rosie could have reached the grand old age of 162. According to Guinness World Records, the record for the oldest...