GUINNESS RECORDS IN SPORT

1. Loudest Crowd Roar at a Sports Stadium
In  September month game against the Patriots this past season, the Kansas City Chiefs and their crowd set the record for loudest crowd for outdoor sporting event with a mark of 142.2 dbA.
The deafening sound level is too high it was reached with less than a minute remaining in the first quarter.


2. Largest Crowd at a Basketball Game

At the 2010 NBA All-Star Game, the amount of audience in attendance set a record for a basketball game at 108,713!

3. Most Simultaneous High Fives
At a basketball game betweenGonzaga and Saint Mary  , fans broke the record for most simultaneous high fives by having 3,505 participants help break the previous record of 2,177.

4. Largest Gathering of People Wearing Wigs
In June of 2013, fans of the Los Angeles Angels set a record by being the largest gathering of people with wearing wigs at one time. It broke the previous record of 12,082, which was set at a rugby game in Australia.


5. Shortest world title boxing fight
It was a great job that the Mayweather-Alvarez bout lasted a little longer than this one. Austrian Harald Geier took just 17 seconds to floor Puerto Rican Daniel Jimenez when defending his WBO super bantamweight title at Domplatz, Wiener Neustadt, in his native country in the September 1994.

6. Longest successful basketball shot
Those Harlem Globetrotters are pretty impressive, aren’t they? And it’s not just their names. Here Corey ‘Thunder’ Law managed to hit the target from a staggering 33.45m (109ft 9ins) at the US Airways Center in Phoenix last November month, when he was way, way back from the normal court.

7. Fastest serve in tennis history
A  Australian sportsman showed his skill by sending down the quickest service ever, in  2012. Samuel Groth’s effort, at an ATP Challenger event in Busan, South Korea, was clocked at 264 km/h (163.8 mph).

8. Coldest regular marathon race
While we are on the subject of endurance, the chilliest 26.20-mile race ever recorded is the Siberian Ice Marathon held in Omsk, Russia. For the 2001 race it registered a temp. of -39 degrees Celsius

GOD OF PEACE

1.He was not born a courageous, outspoken leader. In fact, in his autobiography, he says that when he is a boy, he was so shy that he would come back home from school because he could not bear to talk to anybody in school.

 2. Once during a train journey a British asked Gandhi to get out of the train as he was considered as a ‘black’. But Gandhi refused because  he had the ticket with him. The British and the Railway officer cruelly pushed him out of the train. After this incidence he heart so much and he started movement against  British govt.

3.His life aims were truth, spiritualism, non-violence, religiousness, discipline, honesty, , loyalty, aspiration and so on. All these excellent super qualities made him the Mahatma which means a great soul.   

4.Gandhi worked as an editor for several Hindi , English,and Gujarati newspapers in South Africaas well as India  including Indian Opinion (South Africa) and the Young India. 

5.His income during those days in South Africa touched 15,000$ a year! Something still a dream for most Indians 

6.Gandhi used to stitch the shred clothes by himself.  He was interested to wear neatly washed cloths.   

7 AWESOME THINGS ABOUT SWEDEN

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Pippi Longstocking

While largely usurped by Strawberry , some may still remember Pippi Longstocking’s films and  t.v. series . She was created by Swedish author Astrid .

6

IKEA

IKEA has become the largest furniture retailer in the whole world. The company was founded in year 1943 by Ingvar Kamprad. Kamprad was part of the New Swedish Movement, which supported Nazi Germany during WWII and promoted Swedish nationalism and fascism.

5

H & M

H&M is the world’s 2nd largest clothing retailer, behind the notorious Zara and ahead of GAP Inc. The style of clothing is meant to mimic current runway trends and is promoted through advertising campaigns featuring well known figures like  Sasha Pivovarova and David Beckham. 

4

ABBA

The whole world is familiar with “Dancing Queen.” ABBA was formed in 1972 and Dancing Queen was released in year 1976. The single became one of the most popular songs of the 1970s. 

3

Absolut Vodka

Swedish spirits manufacturer Lars Olsson Smith created Absolut in the year 1877. Absolut is the most popular and internationally distributed alcoholic spirit in the world, popularized by its 1980 s ad campaigns. 

2

Ingmar Bergman

Anyone who’s been to art or film school knows Ingmar Bergman. Woody Allen has called him the greatest film director for all time. Sweden provided the setting for the majority of his films which often focused on  madness, mortality, and betrayal. 

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The Pirate Bay

 The Pirate Bay is a Swedish file-sharing website, used to search for Bit Torrents, and one of the biggest facilitators of illegal downloading in the world. Many websites and countries such as Facebook have blocked access to the Pirate Bay as well as distribution of its links. 

AMAZING ANIMAL

• A average cow produces almost 70,000 glasses of milk in its lifetime.
• The Elephants drink a minimum of 50 gallons of water a in a hall day.
• .The Lions can mate more than 50 times a day.
• You can tell the sex of a horse by watch its teeth. Most males have 40, females have 36.
• A pig’s orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
• Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants
• A giraffe’s tongue is almost 17 inches long.
•  Humans and dolphins are the only species on the earth that have sex for pleasure.
•  A cat’s urine glows under a BLACK LIGHT.
• An ostrich’s eye is bigger than ostrich’s brain.

AMAZING COUNTRIES

Most diverse country in the world – India

In  almost every category – culturally, economically, climatically, racially, linguistically, ethnically, and religiously India is  the most diverse country in the whole world.

Most overweight population – Nauru

 95% of its population being overweight. The small island nation of Nauru is the fattest country on the earth.

Has 350 sheep for every person – Falkand Islands (UK)

Population of this country is 3,000 people. The Falkland Islands are home to approximately half-a million-sheep. Not surprisingly wool is a major export in this country.

Most lakes in the world – Canada

With over 3 million lakes 9% of Canadian territory is actually fresh water and over 60% of all the lakes in the world are found within its borders.

Largest number of tanks – Russia

 Russia has by far the most tanks of any army in the whole world (21,000)

The land of no rivers – Saudi Arabia

Sounds a bit strange doesn’t it? For a country as big as Saudi Arabia there has to be at least some sort of flowing water. Well, there isn’t. Most of their fresh water comes from desalinization plants or underground reservoirs.

Fastest disappearing nation – Ukraine

With a natural decrease in population of .8% annually.

Most of its citizens live abroad – Malta

After some rough economic times coupled with an increased birth rate, Malta experienced significant emigration. It was so significant that there are now more Maltese living abroad than within the country itself.

HOLLYWOOD UNKNOWN FACTS

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AMAZING Facts About FOOTBALL

•  Football was originated in China around 476 B.C. 
•  Football is the most watched and most played sport on earth.
•  Football is the most popular sport in the world. Approximately one billion fans watch Football World Cup on television.
•  The largest Football tournament had more than 5,098 teams. They competed in 1999 for the second Bangkok League Seven-a-Side Competition. Over 35,000 players participated.
  
• Stephan Stanis (France) playing for Racing Club de Lens in December 1942 scored 16  goals which was the maximum number of goals scored by one player in a single Football match.
•  Football goalies didn't have to wear different coloured shirts from their teammates until 1913.
•  Football players run an average of 9.65 kms during every game.
•  The World's First Football Club was the English Sheffield Football Club. It was founded in 1857 by Colonel Nathaniel Cresswick and Major William Priest, two British Army officers.
•  European Teams have reached every World Cup final, except for the finals of 1930 and 1950.  
•  The highest scoring game was clocked 149-0. Stade Olympique de L’emyrne, a team from Madagascar scored their own goals. They did it as a form of protest for the unfair decision by referee in the previous game.
•  The first black football player was Arthur Wharton in the 1800s.
•  Pele was the first to call football “the beautiful game”.
•  Only Canadians and Americans call football as “soccer”
•  In 1964, a referee’s call during a football match in Peru caused a riot that killed over 300 people.
•  In 1998, lightening killed an entire football team. The catastrophe occurred in Congo during a match between the villages of Bena Tshadi and nearby Basangana. 

FACTS OF BOLLYWOOD

1.The hit movie ‘Rockstar’ was shot in reverse, with the climax being shot first.                                                                                                      Reason: The film makers did not want to mess Ranbir Kapoor’s hairstyle.

 2.  Anil Kapoor’s family has lived in Raj Kapoor’s garage when they first time moved to Mumbai. 

3.. Raj Kapoor’s ‘Mera Naam Joker’ was the first Hindi movie with two intervals.

4. The Gabber of "Sholay" Amjad Khan was almost dropped from the film ‘Sholay’ (1975) because scriptwriter Javed Akhtar found his voice too weak for Gabbar Singh's role. Danny Denzongpa was approached for that role initially which finally went to Amjad Khan.

5. Sridevi  was only 13, when she played Rajnikanth’s step mom in a Tamil film called ‘Moondru Mudichu.’                                                                                                                                                                                                    

6. Ila Arun and Alka Yagnik shared the best female playback award for ‘Choli Ke Peeche’ in ‘Khalnayak’ movie of Sanjay Dutt. This was the only time when two playback singers shared an award in the history of Bollywood awards. 

7. ‘Kaho Naa.. Pyar Hai’ was added to the Guinness Book of World Records 2002 edition for winning the most number of awards for a movie. The movie won a total of 92 awards which is highest.

8. The song ‘Ab Tumhare Hawale Watan Saathiyon’ in the film by the same name is the longest Hindi film song of bollywood. The length of this  song is 20 minutes and the song is featured in 3 installments in the film.

9. Rajnikanth never said "Enna Rascala!"

10.Bollywood actress Kalki Koechlin's grandfather Maurice Koechlin, was the Chief engineer for the construction of the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

11. Hrithik’s actual surname is Nagrath & not Roshan!

AMAZING CRICKET

1. Chris Gayle is  only batsman to hit a six of the first ball of a Test match.
2. Abbas Ali was the  first Indian cricketer to be kissed during a Test match .
3. Vinod Kambli's Test match average is better than master blaster..
4. Sunil Gavaskar was out on the first ball of a Test match three time in his career.
5. The only cricketer to play Test cricket for two country India and England is Saif Ali Khan’s grandfather, Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi.

5.  Lala Amarnath is the only bowler in world to dismiss Don Bradman hit wicket in Test cricket.

6.  India is the only country to win the 60-60Over, 50-50Over and 20-20Over World Cup.

7. On the morning of 11/11/11 South Africa needed 111 runs to win at 11:11

8.Peter Siddle is the only bowler to take a hat-trick on his birthday in the test match.