World's longest lei. Posted: 5 months ago by muppet
World's longest lei (one mile long!) created for Hawaii's lei day celebration. Way cool!
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World's longest ringtone lasts over an hour Posted: 11 hours ago by Bornbad
If you've got little to do this weekend and are interested in incredible tedium, then you could always download what its maker claims is the world's longest mobile phone ringtone.
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Longest Video of Flying Fish Released Posted: 5 months ago by AutumnLotus
A Japanese film crew has shot a 45-second-long video of a flying fish in the air, in what may be the longest recorded flight of the acrobatic species.
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Intergalactic particle beam is longest yet found Posted: 10 months ago by AutumnLotus
An intergalactic particle beam stretching for more than a million light years is the longest ever seen. According to the team that discovered this record breaker, it could help reveal how such jets of matter bind themselves together.
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World's smallest man meets woman with world's longest legs Posted: 3 weeks ago by AutumnLotus
Standing at just 2ft 5in high, He Pingping, from China, has been officially named the smallest man in the world.
Svetlana Pankratova, meanwhile, owns the longest legs in the world, which stretch to 132cm.
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Indonesia to build suspension bridge in earthquake hot spot Posted: 12 months ago by AutumnLotus
Indonesia plans to build the world's longest suspension bridge across the earthquake-prone Sunda Strait, passing within 50 kilometres of the active Krakatoa volcano. The bridge, traversing 30 kilometres, will link Indonesia's main islands of Java and Sumatra at an estimated cost of $12 billion.
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The longest joke in the world Posted: 1 year ago by hypnotode
But will you make it to the end?
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World's Biggest Gold Coin Registered in Guinness Book of Records Posted: 12 months ago by maxriter
The Royal Canadian Mint created a 100-kg (220lb) bullion coin, made of 99.999 percent pure gold, which was registered in the Guinness Book of Records as world's biggest gold coin.
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Record friendship: neighbours for 72 years Posted: 5 months ago by AutumnLotus
They have lived next door to each other for 72 years and are being considered for an entry into the Guinness Book of Records as Britain's longest continuous neighbours.
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World's Largest Hot Dog Posted: 9 months ago by muppetmaker
How many pigs had to lose their anus' for this dream to come true?
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NY's 16-Mile Car Tunnel Would Be Longest Posted: 8 months ago by dollyllama
The cost is estimated at $10 billion _ and it wouldn't cost taxpayers a dime. A developer wants to build the tunnel with private money, recouping his costs by charging drivers $25 each way and by selling advertising.
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Longest word in the English language Posted: 1 year ago by gratheo
The word, which is the scientific name for a protein containing 267 amino acids. It contains 1,846 letters. Take that, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
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UCLA Scientists Find Longest Mersenne Prime Number - 12,978,189 Digits! Posted: 1 week ago by AutumnLotus
The challenge of finding the largest prime number ever known seems like an impossible task, however, when you put mathematicians and 100,000 computers together, you get an amazing result, which could qualify for the $100,000 prize offered by the Electronic Frontier Foundation for the first individual or group who discovers a prime number with at least 10,000,000 decimal digits.
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Japanese Set Record for Longest Concert Posted: 2 years ago by suebe
Japanese musicians overcame fatigue and a major earthquake to set the record for the world's longest concert on Saturday, playing 184 hours non-stop in a program that ranged from The Beatles' classics to Japanese traditional harp music.
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