Guinness World Records 2018

ARTS & MEDIA MUSICIANS ON SNAPCHAT Pictured above, pop/rock quartet 5 Seconds of Summer (AUS; @wearefivesos) were the most p ...

1 00–500 years O ldest... UPERLATIVESS From long-lived pets to the oldest fragments of our planet, we explore Earth’s 4.55-billi ...

A G reat Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva ) known as Prometheus was cut down from Wheeler Peak in Nevada, U SA, in 1 963. ...

Sci-Tech & Engineering By 1900, human knowledge was doubling every century, according to US polymath Richard Buckminster Ful ...

SCI-TECH & ENGINEERING LARGEST DISH RADIO TELESCOPE The Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) in Ping ...

Edge of Space HIGHEST ALTITUDE BY A COMMERCIAL ASTRONAUT On 4 Oct 2004, Brian Binnie (USA) piloted SpaceShipOne to an altitude o ...

S CI-TECH & ENGINEERING FASTEST SPEED IN FREEFALL Felix Baumgartner (AUT) fell to Earth at 1,357.6 km/h (843.6 mph) during t ...

1 2 3 Comets SCI-TECH & ENGINEERING FIRST COMET VISITED BY A SPACECRAFT NASA’s International Cometary Explorer passed throug ...

FASTEST ATMOSPHERIC ENTRY INTO EARTH’S ATMOSPHERE On 15 Jan 2006, NASA’s Stardust sample return capsule returned to Earth after ...

3D Printing SCI-TECH & ENGINEERING LARGEST 3D-PRINTED PROSTHETIC BEAK Grecia the toucan was brought to the Zoo Ave animal sa ...

SCI-TECH & ENGINEERING LARGEST SOLID 3D-PRINTED ITEM A trim tool measuring 2.33 m^3 (82.28 cu ft), designed for use during t ...

SCI-TECH & ENGINEERING FIRST SELFIE Robert Cornelius (USA) took this self- portrait in Oct 1839. It is a daguerreotype – an ...

SCI-TECH & ENGINEERING OLDEST KNOWN SURVIVING PHOTOGRAPH The earliest documented photograph still in existence was taken by ...

Fireworks SCI-TECH & ENGINEERING LARGEST SPARKLER CANDLE On New Year’s Eve 2015, Yuriy Yaniv from Kiev, Ukraine, set alight ...

FIRST MULTI-SENSORY FIREWORK DISPLAY The firework display for New Year’s Eve 2013–14 in London, UK, incorporated a taste-and-sme ...

Sci-Tech & Engineering Round-Up FIRST PERSON TO BE CRYONICALLY SUSPENDED Following his death from kidney and lung cancer, ps ...

LARGEST LED SCULPTURE Taking the form of a giant Christmas tree ball decoration consisting of 23,120 LED lights, the biggest LED ...

$1,000–$500,000 Most Expensive... SUPERLATIVES Money may not be able to buy you love, but it can certainly buy a lot of other th ...

In 2 004, Vanisha Mittal and Amit Bhatia were married at a six-day event in Versailles, France, at a cost of $55 m (£28.5 m) – p ...

Transport By 1900, around a third of all vehicles on the road were electric- powered. New York City alone had a fleet of more th ...