List of world records

Tallest: Robert Pershing Wadlow, 2.72 m (8 ft 11.1 in) [link]
Shortest: Gul Mohammed, 0.57 m (1 ft 8.7 in)
Heaviest Man: Jon Brower Minnoch, 635 kg (1,400 lb) [link]
Heaviest Woman: Carol Yager, 725 kg (1,600 lb)
Greatest Height Difference Between A Married Couple: 3' 1.2" (94.5 cm), Favien Pretou and Natalie Lucius

Physiology

Oldest (claimed, but still unverified): Maria do Carmo, 128 years
Oldest (verified): Jeanne Calment, 122 years [link]
Oldest (living): Maria Esther de Capovilla, 116 years 85 days (December 9, 2005) [link]

Sports

Longest Table Tennis Rally: Brian Seibel and Steve Seibel, 8 h 15 min 1 s
Longest Wrestling Bout: Martin Klein beat Alfred Asikainen, 11 h 40 min
Longest Cricket Marathon: Cricket Club des Ormes, 26 h 13 min

Culture and society

History

General

Largest empire: British Empire, 37 million km² (1912)

Military history

Battles

Largest naval battle: Matter of definition, see Largest naval battle in history

Media

Radio

Longest-running radio show: Rambling With Gambling (1925-2000), hosts John B. Gambling, John A. Gambling, John R. Gambling

Asian World Records

Longest Violin marathon by an individual - L. Athira Krishna (32 hours)

Television

Largest Audience For A TV Series: Baywatch, 1.1 billion viewers

Largest cash prize won on a TV game show: Ken Jennings at Jeopardy, $2,520,700 (£1,352,597 or €2,009,486)

Longest Running Animated TV Series: The Simpsons (1989-Present)

Longest-running chat show: The Late Late Show (1962-Present), hosts Gay Byrne, Pat Kenny, Frank Hall

Most Emmys For A TV Series In A Season: The West Wing, Nine Emmys

Most Expensive TV Mini Series: Band of Brothers, $125 million (£79 million)

Most Expensive TV Program: ER, $13.1 million per show

Most Hours on Camera: Regis Philbin, 15,188 hours

Most Popular Children's Educational Program: Sesame Street, 180 countries

Most Seizures Caused By A TV Program: Pokémon, 700 seizures

Most Successful TV Soap: ''Dallas, 90 countries

Most TV Spin-Off Series: Ultraman, 14 series

Movie

Longest Movie: The Cure for Insomnia, 5220 minutes (87 h)

Most Expensive Movie Made: Titanic, $210 million

Most Oscars Won by a Film: Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, Ben Hur, and Titanic, 11 each

Most Portrayed Character In Horror Movies: Dracula, 162 films

Most Swearing In An Animated Movie: [[South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut]], 399 swear words

Star Of Most Films Earning Over $100 Million: Harrison Ford, 15 films

Longest Movie Title: Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (72 characters)

Highest grossing film (after adjusting for inflation): Gone With the Wind [link]

Music

Longest Violin marathon by an individual: L. Athira Krishna

Biggest All-Times Sales For A Band: The Beatles
Biggest All-Time Sales for A Solo Artist: Michael Jackson

Most "the most expletives in a #1 song". "Fuck It" by Eamon Doyle

Most mentions of Freddie Mitchell: "Freddie Mitchell VS Chandler Bing" by The Doctors

Biggest Selling Album of All-Time: Thriller by Michael Jackson
Most Successful Act In UK Chart History: Queen (more than 1,322 Weeks)[link]

Most aired music video is Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" from their 1991 album Nevermind.

Most covered song: "Yesterday", by The Beatles, (more than 3000 covers)

Most Awarded Recording Artist in Music's History: Michael Jackson

Most expensive Music Video ever: Scream by Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson

Longest-Running Rock Group Fan Club: Queen

Longest Album Title: When the Pawn..., by Fiona Apple. (90 words)

Shortest Song: "You Suffer", by Napalm Death. (1.316 s)

Longest running song by a female group: "Independent Women Part I", by Destiny's Child (2001)

Shortest Music Video: Collateral Damage, by Brutal Truth. (2.18 seconds)

Longest Music Video: Ghosts, by Michael Jackson. (35 min)

First completely sampled album: Endtroducing....., by DJ Shadow (1996).

Most Successful Virtual Band: Gorillaz

Best Selling Rap/Hip-Hoper: Tupac Shakur

Eating and Drinking Records

Bicycle: Michael Lolito (Monsieur Mangetout), 10 bicycles consumed between 1966 and 1990
[Beer speed drinking record] (1 liter in 1.3 seconds). ([1])

Painting

Largest collection of fake masterpieces: 3,500, owned by Christophe Petyt

Political entities

Independent countries

Largest by population: China, 1.3 billion
Smallest by population: Vatican City, 932
Largest by surface area: Russia, 17,075,200 km²
Smallest by surface area: Vatican City, 0.44 km²

Institutions

Oldest monarchy: Japan
Oldest parliament: Althing, Iceland, founded 930
Largest parliament: China, close to 3,000 MPs members
Oldest parliamentarian to win an election: Ratu Wilisoni Tuiketei Malani winning the Ra Province Constituency seat during the 1994 Fiji Islands Election at age 74 and retiring at age 79 in 1999.

Leaders

Longest currently serving head of state: King Rama IX of Thailand, since 1946
Longest serving head of state ever: King Pepi II of Egypt, 2221 BC - 2118 BC (94 years).
Oldest serving President of a country: Ratu Josefa Iloilo Uluivuda of the Fiji Islands at 86 years as at 2006.

Sculpture

Heaviest sculpture: Statue of Liberty, 24000 tons (54 million lb)

Language

Most spoken language: Mandarin Chinese

Man-made objects

Buildings

General records

Tallest buildings and structures: see World's tallest structures.
Largest single-roof building: Millennium Dome, diameter 365 m
Largest wooden structure: Daibutsuden (Great Buddha Hall), Todai-ji, Nara
Oldest wooden structures: Horyu-ji, Nara
Fastest wooden roller coaster: Son of Beast
Fastest and tallest roller coaster: Kingda Ka

Bridges

Tunnels

Monuments

Pyramids

Largest: Great Pyramid of Cholula, 4.45 million m³
Tallest: Great Pyramid of Giza, 138.8 m (height today), 146.6 m (original height)

Transportation

Commercial aircraft

Largest: Antonov An-225
Largest passenger aircraft: Airbus A380

Military

Army

Largest Infantry: China

Navy

Naval vessels

Largest displacement: Nimitz class aircraft carrier, 97,000 tons (98,600 t)
Longest: USS Enterprise (CVN-65), 336 m
Largest Battleship: Japanese battleship Yamato, 65,000 tons (72,808 t)
Largest military aircraft: Lockheed C-5 Galaxy

Airforce

Largest Airforce: China

Infrastructure

Steepest street: Baldwin Street, Dunedin, New Zealand

Spaceflight

Places of worship

Churches

Largest: Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro
Tallest: Ulm Munster

Physical phenomena

Geography

Islands

Largest: Officially, Greenland. Australia is sometimes considered an island but is more commonly defined as a continent
Remotest inhabited: Tristan da Cunha

Lakes

Fresh water lakes

Deepest: Lake Baikal, 1,637 m
Largest by surface area: Lake Superior, 82,000 km²
Largest by volume: Lake Baikal, 23,000 km³

Salt water lakes

Largest: Caspian Sea, 371,000 km²

Mountains

Highest: Mount Everest, 8,848 m (see measurement section on Everest page)
Highest known mountain in the Solar System: Olympus Mons, Mars (approx: 27 km)

Rivers

Largest average discharge: Amazon, 219,000 m³/s
Longest: Nile, 6,695 km (matter of dispute, see also List of rivers by length)
Shortest: Roe River, 201 ft (61 m)
Longest canal: Grand Canal of China 1,794 km

Geology

Caves

Deepest: Voronya Cave, 2,080 m
Largest cave system: Mammoth Cave
Largest open space: Sarawak chamber

Gemstones

Diamonds

Largest cut diamond: The Golden Jubilee, 545.67 carats (109.13 g)
Largest uncut diamond: Cullinan Diamond, 3,106.75 carats (621.350 g)

Rubies

Largest cut ruby: Rajaratna Ruby, 2,475 carats (495.0 g)

Biological phenomenona

General records

Largest organism: see Largest organism
Smallest genome: Mycoplasma genitalium, 580,000 base pairs

Animals

General

Largest: Blue whale, 140 tons
Largest land animal: Elephant, 7 tons

Invertebrates

Largest: Colossal Squid

Birds

Largest: Ostrich, up to 155 kg
Greatest wingspan: Wandering albatross, up to 3.45 m

Mammals

Fastest: Cheetah, up to 100 km/h (62 mi/h)
Largest: Blue whale, 127 t (140 tons)
Smallest: Pygmy Shrew, 2.5 g (38.58 grains)
Smallest cattle: Vechur cow 1.24 m (48.8 in) long, 0.87 m (34.25 in) tall.
Smallest breed of dog: chihuahua
Tallest dog: Irish Wolfhound, up to 8 feet upright; the tallest recorded was 5 feet at the shoulders.

Bacteria and archea

Largest: Thiomargarita namibiensis, 0.75 mm
Largest number of genes: Streptomyces coelicolor
Smallest genome: Mycoplasma genitalium, 580,000 base pairs

Plants

Largest: General Sherman tree
Largest flower: Rafflesia arnoldii, 11 kg
Largest seed: Coco de mer
Oldest: bristlecone pine, Methuselah, 4,700 years

References

Guinness Book of World Records, 1990-2006 editions

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