World Records

Chernobyl, Ukraine – November 30, 2016 – Ukraine unveiled the world’s largest moveable metal structure over the Chernobyl nuclear power plant’s doomed fourth reactor to ensure the safety of Europeans for future generations; the gigantic arch soars 108 metres (355 feet) into the sky — making it taller than New York‘s Statue of Liberty — while its weight of 36,000 …

Adelaide, Australia – November 25, 2016 – Dulwich Bakery (owner Wayne Duffy) baked an 804kg vanilla slice; the slice comprised 600kg of custard, 150kg of pastry and 50kg of icing and it took six bakers to assemble the 6m by 2m sweet treat which sets the new world record for the Largest vanilla slice. Photo: An 804kg vanilla slice baked …

Homestead, Florida, USA – November 25, 2016 – A 2017 Ford F-450 Super Duty just pulled a 4,124 square foot U.S. flag over four laps at the Homestead-Miami Speedway, setting a new World Record for the “Largest Flag Pulled by a Moving Vehicle,”. Photo: All-new 2017 Ford F-450 Super Duty sets a new world record for the World’s Largest Flag …

Puerto Princesa City, Philippines – November 16, 2016 – A Filipino fisherman in western Palawan island has found a giant pearl measuring 30 cm wide (1ft), 67 cm long (2.2ft) and weighing 34 kg (75lb), which sets the new world record for the Largest natural pearl. Photo: The giant pearl, seen being weighed at 34 kilogram, set a new world …

Whangaparaoa, New Zealand – November 18, 2016 – Domino’s Pizza Enterprises delivered one peri-peri chicken pizza and another chicken and cranberry pizza to a customer in Whangaparaoa, north of Auckland, New Zealand, thus setting the new world record for First commercial pizza delivery by drone. Photo: Customers eating their drone delivered pizza. Fast food company Domino’s had used an unmanned …

Gatlinburg, Tennessee, USA – November 22, 2016 – To celebrate the 100th birthday of the National Park Service, the staff of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park decided to set a world record; 323 people park rangers, other park employees, and Gatlinburg residents came together to form the shape of a giant arrowhead, which is the National Park Service logo, …

Washington, D.C., USA – November 22, 2016 – Deltek, the leading global provider of enterprise software and information solutions for project-based businesses, announced that it has set a new world record title at its award-winning Insight 2016 user conference for creating the largest human image of a cloud; the record was set at the Gaylord National Harbor in Washington, D.C., …

Dubai, UAE – November 23, 2016 – Anantara the Palm Dubai Resort has entered the Book of World Records for the ‘Largest Mango Sticky Rice’ dish, which weighed in at 2,831 kg. Photo: Cooked by 10 chefs, the recipe for record-breaking success included 1,000 kg of rice, 500 litres of coconut milk, 500 litres of coconut cream, 50 kgs of …

Pyrgos, Greece – November 23, 2016 – The chefs-members of the Chefs Club of Peloponnese, West Greece and the Ionian Islands, have made the longest strawberry pie ever to be made, and offered it to passers-by in the center of Pyrgos; the strawberry pie was 120 m long, setting the new world record for the Longest strawberry pie. Photo: The …

Stockholm, Sweden – November 21, 2016 – St. Erik’s Brewery, one of Sweden’s leading microbreweries, developed the world’s most expensive chips using select almond potatoes harvested by hand from the potato hillside in Ammarnäs seasoned with a variety of rare ingredients: Matsutake mushrooms from forests in northern Sweden, Crown Dill from the Bjäre Peninsula, truffle seaweed from the Faroe Islands, …