Largest Chess Piece

Largest Chess Piece

The World Record of Largest Chess Piece has been achieved by Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis, MI United States.

on May 8, 2012; The king piece measuring 14 Feet & 6 Inches in height and 6 Feet in width; weighted 2,280. It was made to make St. Louis the country’s chess capital.

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Largest Chess Piece

Tallest Tower Of Pancakes

The World Record of ‘tallest tower of pancakes’ has been achieved by TV channel Food Network, London, UK.

On March 9, 2011; in a bid to celebrate Pancake Day; staff of Food Network UK created the leaning tower of 725 pancakes measured 32 inches. The tallest pancake tower took 13 hours and required 253 eggs, 11lbs of flour and 26 pints of milk.

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Smallest Frog

The World Record of finding “Smallest Frog” has been achieved by Professor Chris Austin and his graduate student Eric Rittmeyer from Louisiana State University, Amau, Papua New Guinea.

In 2009 a crimson and black frog named Paedophryne amanuensis is the smallest vertebrate in the world at a mere 7.7mm (0.30 inches) in size at adulthood.

Largest Chess Piece

Heaviest Onion

The World Record of growing ‘heaviest Onion’ has been achieved by Peter Glazebrook from Harrogate, England.

This heaviest onion of the world weighed 18lb and 1oz at the Harrogate Autumn Flower Show.

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Most People Dancing Simultaneously at Multiple Locations

The World Record of ‘most people dancing simultaneously at multiple locations’ has been achieved by NISB (Nederlands Instituut voor Sport en Beweging) from Nederlands.

On November 16, 2006; during an event organized by NISB; Two Hundred Sixty Four Thousand One Hundred Eighty Eight (264,188) participants from 1,472 locations in the Netherlands danced simultaneously on the song ‘What a Feeling’.