Longest continuous swim in a counter-current pool

Longest continuous swim in a counter-current pool
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Japanese swimmer Yuko Matsuzaki spent 24 hours, 1 minute in a counter-current swimming pool in Redondo Beach, CA on October 6, 2019, to achieve this new stamina-based record.

 

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Longest-running creator-owned superhero comic book series

Longest-running creator-owned superhero comic book series
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Comics fans are notoriously loyal to their favourite heroes and villains, and they’ve helped make Spawn, by Todd McFarlane, the longest-running creator-owned superhero comic book series. It’s been entertaining readers since May, 1992, meaning that as of September 30, 2019, it had been running for 27 years and 4 months.

 

Longest hand-made egg noodle

Longest hand-made egg noodle
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You’d better be hungry for this one, which landed the victor, chef Hiroshi Kuroda, a spot on Good Morning America. Measuring 183.72 m, or 14 times the length of the Washington Monument, the sesame-oil soaked noodle was fried all in one unbreakable piece, in a hot wok, which took Kuroda a full hour.

Feeling hungry? Try these quick to make scallops with noodles and watercress.

Greatest horizontal distance parachute flight

Greatest horizontal distance parachute flight
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You might think that parachute records are only for the vertically inclined. But on February 24, 2018, Shinichi Ito of Japan broke this record in Davis, California by traveling 46.2 km. He jumped from a plane and opened his parachute at 25,000 feet to attain this achievement.

 

Steepest street

Steepest street
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Nope, it’s not in San Francisco (good guess, though). As of June 6, 2019, the world’s steepest street is in Harlech, Wales, on a road called Ffordd Pen Llech. Just how steep is it? Ffordd Pen Llech has a gradient of 1:2.67 (that is, a 37.45 per cent stretch over fall).

 

Tallest sandcastle

Tallest sandcastle
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As leaves turn to yellow and orange this autumn, remember the heady, hot days of summer with this record: measuring 17.65 m tall, the world’s tallest sandcastle was created by Skulptura Projects in Binz, Germany, on June 5, 2019. It took 12 sculptors using 11,000 tons of sand mixed with water three-and-a-half weeks working 8-hour days to build this behemoth.

Records can be broken for all kinds of feats. Here are some unusual record breakers.

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