Facts and Records

Girls in bikinis get into the Guinness Book

Over thousands of Australian women in bikini on a beach in Sydney with their bodies made the word COSMO magazine Cosmopolitan. The event, captured a group of photographers honored with a place in the Guinness Book of Records.

Beauty!





New world record for staying under water without air

Amazing world record was set in Hollywood, California, USA. Hungarian David Merlini stayed under water without air for 10 minutes 17 seconds. Achieving just phenomenal, in order to understand this, try procidet underwater breath holding at least two minutes.



Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci from metro tickets

Employees of the department store Takashimaya, Osaka, Japan set up of the 320 000 tickets to the nearest metro station reproductions of world famous paintings, including the Mona Lisa (Gioconda) by Leonardo da Vinci. First it was made special patterns, which are then superimposed white or black tickets, which served as a "pixel" paintings. The works created by 300 staff between work for three months.



Originally a German record for the transport of beer mugs is now owned by Australia

In pride of the Germans suffered a serious blow. The record for the transport of the maximum number of mugs of beer now belongs to Australia.

A native of Bavaria, and now a naturalized Australian Rinehart Wurz carried a twenty-liter mugs of beer at a distance of 40 meters. It should be noted that each full circle weighs at least 2, 5 kilos, so Mr. Wurz suffered at arm's length is not less than 50 kilograms.

The smallest newspaper in the world

English newspaper First News Children hit the Guinness Book of Records as the smallest newspaper in the world. Especially for setting the record was released 1000 copies of 32 to 22 mm. Mini newspaper, as usual, contains 24 sheets with news, competitions and puzzles while they were readable, despite the small size. Worth noting that the newspapers have chosen the original and as it turned out, a very effective way of drawing attention to his edition.



Chinese blew balloon ear

Another record of residents in high places. Chinese Zhu Wei during a performance in the city of Guangzhou in southern China blew balloon ear!

The largest mosaic of photos

Mosaic with the image of a smiling child fell into the Guinness Book of Records. Its dimensions are 40, 6 meters long and 14 meters wide. Mosaic is composed of 95,000 photos of smiling children.



Another record set in China in support of the 2008 Olympics

The Chinese continue to set records in which appears the figure of 2008. This is done in order to support the Olympic Games to be held in August 2008 in Beijing. During the seventeenth festival of Chinese chefs chef of a restaurant for 100 minutes in 2008 bake chicken. The achievement could be included in the Guinness Book of Records.

It is worthy to open the tent "Chickens Grill" near the metro stations!





The largest flag in the world

A huge Russian flag deployed during the qualifying match of Euro 2008 Russia-England Luzhniki Stadium in the stands, does not rest to other countries. So in Israel at the airport of Masada near the Dead Sea in late November on the ground was paved national flag of 660 to 1000 meters. It is the largest flag in the world.



Set a phenomenal record in diving

New Zealander Dave Mullins (Dave Mullins) 18 meters broke his world record breaking under water at one go 244 meters.



The highest skyscraper in the world - Burj Dubai

In Dubai, nearing completion construction of the tallest skyscraper in the world - Burj Dubai. The height of the 190-storey building 819 meters. For comparison, the height of the Ostankino Tower in Moscow, 540 meters.







The fastest limousine in the world

Before you limousine built on a 400-strong Ferrari's 360 Modena. The car accelerates from 0 to 60 miles per hour (96 kilometers per hour 6) in 6 seconds and has a top speed of 170 miles per hour (273 kilometers per hour).



Original Ferrari was cut in half, and then it was made almost three-meter carbon fiber insert. Accommodates eight machine. The cost of rework of about 200 000 pounds. Rent this miracle of technology can be 700 pounds per hour.











House of Cards height of 7, 85 meters

Over the years, American Bryan Berg builds models of different cathedrals, skyscrapers and stadiums from playing cards without using auxiliary items for fastening structures.

Brian recently set a new record by building a simple playing cards skyscraper height of 7 and 85 meters.



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