RECORDMANIALARGEST BALL
OF HUMAN HAIR
Henry Coffer (USA),
a barber from
Charleston in Missouri,
USA, collected hair into
a giant ball that weighed
167 lb (75.7 kg) as of
8 Dec 2008. It was 4 ft
(1.2 m) high and had a 14-ft
(4.26-m) circumference.
Over the course of 50-plus
years, Henry found many
uses for his hair clippings,
from patching potholes
to fertilizing soil.LARGEST DISCO BALL
Bestival (UK) music festival presented a mirror ball with a
diameter of 10.33 m (33 ft 10 in) for the Desert Island Disco
at Robin Hill Country Park on the Isle of Wight, UK, on 7 Sep
- The ball was made by the firm NEWSUBSTANCE, led by
Mungo Denison (both UK), and formed part of the climax of
the weekend. It was lit and began to rotate as Nile Rodgers
and Chic emerged to perform on the main stage.
LARGEST SOCCER BALL
On 12 Feb 2013, Doha Bank (QAT) presented a 12.19-m-
diameter (39-ft 11.9-in) soccer ball made out of artificial
leather in Doha, Qatar. It has a circumference of 38.3 m
(125 ft 8 in) and weighs approximately 960 kg (2,116 lb
7 oz). The super-sized sphere was displayed in the
LuLu Hypermarket car park in Doha.
MOST LAYERS IN A BALL OF PAINT
As of 2 May 2017, there were some 25,506 layers
of paint on a baseball owned by Michael
Carmichael of Alexandria, Indiana, USA.
Since first painting the ball in 1977,
he and his wife Glenda had added
nearly two coats of paint
per day. The ball has a
circumference of around
15 ft (4.57 m) at
its widest.LARGEST RUGBY BALL
On 15 Mar 2011, Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd presented a
rugby ball 4.709 m (15 ft 5.39 in) long and 2.95 m (9 ft 8.14 in)
tall for the Cathay Pacific/Credit Suisse Hong Kong Sevens
in Hong Kong, China. The ball is 12.066 m (39 ft 7 in) in
circumference from side to side and 9.34 m (30 ft 7.7 in) from
top to bottom. It is about 20 times the size of a regular rugby
ball, one of which is held above by GWR’s Angela Wu.LARGEST BALL OF STICKERS
John Fischer and his team at StickerGiant
(both USA) patiently created a 105.05-kg
(231-lb 9.6-oz) ball out of more than 177,000
stickers and labels, as verified in Longmont,
Colorado, USA, on 13 Jan 2016. This record was
attempted for the first National Sticker Day in
the USA. Dubbed “Saul”, the ball was an officially
declared candidate in the 2016 presidential
elections, under the motto “Stick together”.R Stanton
Avery (USA)
invented the self-
adhesive label. His
birthday, 13 Jan, was
chosen for National
Sticker Day.LARGEST RUBBER-BAND BALL
Weighing 4,097 kg (9,032 lb) – around twice the weight of an adult rhinoceros –
“Megaton” was created by Joel Waul (USA) and measured in Lauderhill, Florida, USA,
on 13 Nov 2008 for GWR Day. In all, 700,000 rubber bands were used for the sphere,
which Joel began making in Apr 2004. It is 2 m (6 ft 7 in) tall.How do you count
paint layers? A tree
surgeon took a core
sample from the ball and
estimated that one layer
is around 0.000778in
thick, making a total of
25,506 layers in all.