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Guinness World Records is collection of world
records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.
The article brings the five most amazing world records such as Most
expensive cricket bat, World biggest pizza , World biggest BIG MARINO
statue, Largest collection of Pooh, Longest road train...
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World Largest Collection of Winnie-the-Pooh Record
set by Deb Hoffmann
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.
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World Biggest Big Merino Statue
The Big Merino is a 15 meter tall concrete Merino sheep (a type of sheep
that is drought tolerant), located in Goulburn, NSW, Australia.
Nicknamed "Rambo" by locals, the Big Merino contains a gift shop on the
ground floor and a wool display on the second floor. Visitors can climb
to the top and look out through the Merino's eyes to view the local
area.
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Largest Pizza Ever Made
On December 8th, 1990, a monumentally wasteful record was set by Pick
‘n’ Pay hypermarket in Johannesburg, South Africa when a pizza measuring
37.4 meters in diameter was, for lack of a better term, constructed.
It’s said to have been made using 500 kg of flour, 800 kg of cheese and
900 kg of tomato paste.
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Most Expensive Cricket Bat
The Most Expensive Cricket bat is $145,000 used by Sir Donald Bradman
and was sold in an auction at Melbourne, Australia on 24-September-2008.
This bat was used in his debut test. He made his debut during 1928 and
1929. Bradman just scored 18 runs from his first bat and 1 run from the
second bat. The bat was signed by country’s top cricket players and the
team who played in 1928-1929 test matches and the English opponents. The
bidding had a heavy competition from Australian’s and people from other
parts of the world including India.
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Longest roadtrain
Nowadays road trains are limited to three trailers or in special cases
in very remote areas four trailers, but one roadtrain that set a record
was no less than 1018 metres long, counted 79 trailers and weighed 1,072
tonnes. It was driven for a distance of 8 km by a Kenworth C501T truck
driven by Aussie truckie Steven Matthews, near the gold mining town of
Kalgoorlie, Western Australia on October 19 , 2000. This record was
broken on March 29 2003 at Mungindi, Queensland with a roadtrain of 87
trailers measuring 1235.3 metres! On October 16 2004 that record was
broken again with a roadtrain of 117 trailers measuring aproximately
1450 metres but this was only accepted for 36 hours by Guiness Book of
Records as official. The latest record was set on 18th February 2006 by
Brisbane truckie John Atkinson with his Mack Titan truck. After a six
hour job of assembling 113 trailers into a 1,474.3 metre long road train
in 38 degree heat on a closed stretch of highway outside Clifton,
Queensland, John got in his truck and drove his way into the Guinness
Book of World Records. He did 140 metre in 50 seconds with nearly
one-and-a-half kilometres of truck weighing more than 1300 tonnes!
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