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World's Biggest Beach BallCarnival Cruise Lines in Dallas, Texas set the Guiness World Record for the world's largest beach balls. The beach balls are 36 feet in diameter and over than three stories tall. Here's a video of the enormous beach balls from CBS. Posted on October 28, 2008 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | Robbie Knievel is just as crazy as his daredevil father Evil. Reuters reports that Robbie Knievel managed to beat his dad's world record motorcycle jump of 24 buses. The record bus jump occured at King's Island park in Ohio. Knievel's dad jumped 14 buses here in a motorcycle jump 30 years ago. Like father, like son. Posted on May 27, 2008 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | Incredibly Hot Chili Pepper Discovered  The Associated Press reports that a man named Paul Bosland has discovered the hottest chili pepper in the world. The chili reaches 1,001,304 Scoville heat units on the Scovilli scale of chili hotness. The average jalepeno is just 10,000 Scoville heat units according to the AP. The AP says the new chili has been confirmed as the world's hottest by Guiness World Records.
The Guinness World Records agreed, confirming recently that Bosland, a regents professor at New Mexico State University, had discovered the world's hottest chili pepper, Bhut Jolokia, a naturally occurring hybrid native to the Assam region of northeastern India.Even though they are still discovering new ones chili peppers have been around for a while. They even rocked the ancient world according to CNN. Posted on February 26, 2007 Permalink | | | Comments (View) |  Roses that grow as high as 5-6 feet tall are going to be used in this year's Rose Parade. The roses are grown by OrganicBouquet.com on an Ecuadorian farm that lies between two volcanoes. Organic Bouquet claims they are the world's tallest roses.
The first certified sustainably grown flowers ever used in Rose Parade history, these magnificent red roses grow naturally 5-6 feet tall, each stem boasting a large head which opens to an astonishing four inches in diameter, creating a sea of lush red rose petals.You can read more about the roses here on the Organic Bouquet website. Information about the Rose Parade in Pasadena can be found here. In the parade the roses will be seen on the 89th Rose Queen, Mary McCluggage, as well as the Santa Fe Springs float. Posted on December 28, 2006 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | OfficeMax Helps Transport Huge Rubberband Ball to Chicago  OfficeMax recently sponsored the transfer of a giant rubberband ball containing 175,000 rubberbands from a guy's garge in Oregon to downtown Chicago where the rubberband ball was cerrtified as the World's Largest Rubberband Ball by Guinness World Records. Some of the details are included below in a snippet from the press release.
"We're delighted to have been invited to the event to certify that Steve Milton's rubberband ball has broken the world record," said Guinness World Records official Sarah Wagner. "Congratulations to Steve and OfficeMax on this accomplishment."OfficeMax really had no choice but to sponsor the enormous rubberband ball. They use a rubberband ball as part of their corporate identity. Imagine how bad it would be for OfficeMax if Staples or Office Depot had the World's Largest Rubberband Ball? Posted on November 27, 2006 Permalink | | | Comments (View) |  We've been waiting patiently for someone to make an enormous smoothie and it has finally happened. The Booster Juice store in Kitchener, Canada broke the world smoothie record with a massive 195 gallon smoothie.
After 7 blenders, 3.5 hours of blending and over 195 gallons of smoothie, a Booster Juice store in Kitchener, Canada broke the current record for the World's Largest Smoothie. To break this record Booster Juice had to surpass the previous record of 333 litres or 88 gallons of delicious smoothie. City firefighters were on site to help in the attempt to enter the Guinness World Records by making the world's largest smoothie. Best of all, Booster Juice raised $1,000 for the Canadian Cancer Society by selling the world's largest smoothie in 24 oz cups after the record breaking event.The firefighters may have been present because of the infamous Snapple popsicle disaster. The Snapple disaster occured last year when Snapple decided a hot July day in New York City would be a perfect time to attempt to break the record for the world's biggest popsicle. Fortunately, everything went as planned at the world's largest smoothie attempt. Posted on August 31, 2006 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | World's Largest Free Floating Soap Bubble Created  John R. Erck, a 20 year old entrepreneur, has set a Guinness World Record for the World's Largest Free Floating Soap Bubble. The soap bubble was created using Beeboo Big Bubble Mix. The press release says the record breaking bubble event was attended by two PhD scientists who apparently had nothing better to to do than witness a soap bubble world record.
A team of PhD scientists gathered in Farmington, Minnesota in October 2005 to provide 100% accurate documentation to the Guinness World Records committee. The team was comprised of Dr. Monte Ramstad, a pioneer in fully synchronized 3-dimensional digital photography, and Dr. Fadil Santosa, a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Minnesota.Dr. Santosa must be pretty good at calculating the volume of bubbles considering this bubble is hardly a perfect circle and has odd bulges. Here are a couple cool facts about the big soap bubble. Even cooler is the fact that soap bubble master John R. Erck was wearing sunglasses and wielding two bubble wands while creating the record breaking bubble. Posted on April 9, 2006 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | Blog Tracks Craig Biggio's Painful Record Attempt  Houston Astros player Craig Biggio is closing in on the painful record for getting hit by the most pitches in Major League Baseball. Biggio has been hit by a pitch 268 times which
leaves him just 20 away from the all-time record holder Hughie Jennings,
who was hit by a pitch 287 times during his career. A blog
called Plunk Biggio is tracking Biggio as he closes in on the record. Plunk Biggio informs us that Craig Biggio has been hit by a pitch 4 times on the release weekend of a new Harry Potter novel. Since Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is out this weekend
maybe Biggio will get plunked by another pitch?
Posted on July 16, 2005 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | 
Snapple picked the middle of summer to try and break
a Guiness World Record for the largest popsicle ever.
Unfortunately, the 25-foot-tall popsicle melted before it
could even be unloaded off the truck. CNN has a video of the
giant melting popsicle. MSNBC.com has a report
and picture of the gooey disaster as the enormous kiwi-strawberry
treat melted and flooded part of downtown Manhattan.
The 25-foot-tall, 17.5-ton treat of frozen Snapple juice melted faster than expected Tuesday, flooding Union Square in downtown Manhattan with kiwi-strawberry-flavored fluid that sent pedestrians scurrying for higher ground.The New York Post reported that the sticky kiwi-strawberry flood even caused several bicyclists to wipe out. "I can't believe this, it's so dangerous," said cyclist Dave Currente, who took a nasty tumble.The Post had the best headline for the incident with Snapple Slips Up In Ice-Pop Flop. MSNBC.com's headline read Disaster on a Stick. Other headlines about the Snapple PR disaster that we liked include: Posted on July 1, 2005 Permalink | | | Comments (View) | |
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