The World Record of the ‘longest hair on an individual’s head’ has been achieved by Ms. Xie Quiping from Lifu Guilin, China.
The total length of Ms. Quiping’s hair is measured to be 5.627 m (18 ft 5.54 in). Xie Quiping was born in 1960 and has been growing hair from the age of 13. She has never stopped growing her hair.
The World Record of ‘most number of t-shirts worn at once’ has been achieved by Sanath Bandara from Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Sanath Bandara: a marathon runner; took 1 hour 7 minutes and 3 seconds to wear Two Hundred Fifty Seven (257) t-shirts one over other. Event organized on December 22, 2011 at a public park of Colombo was witnessed by thousands of spectators.
The world record of the ‘longest bridge in the world’ has been achieved by Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge from Jiangsu, China.
The total length of the bridge is 164.8 kilometers (102.4 mi) and lies on the long viaduct on the Beijing–Shanghai High-Speed Railway line. Almost the entire length of the Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge is of the viaduct style of construction. The bridge is located on the rail line between Shanghai and Nanjing in East China’s Jiangsu province. The total cost of building the bridge was $ 8.5 billion and was completed in 2011.
The world record of “preventwet: machine preventing clothes from getting wet” has been achieved by Mr. Piyush Agarwal from Hazaribagh, Jharkhand, India.
Mr. Piyush Agarwal from Hazaribagh, Jharkhand, India at young age of 16 invented a machine ‘Preventwet’; an auto actuating cloth-line which carries hung cloth in & out automatically by sensing the humidity and helps to prevent the clothes from getting wet in rain, snow or heavy wind flow.
The World Record of ‘longest time to walk in space by a female’ has been achieved by Sunita Williamsfrom USA.
NASA Atronuat, Sunita Williams has set the world record for a woman to walk in space for the longest duration on July 14, 2012. Sunita set the record while she and her colleague Japan’s Akihiko Hoshide fixied the electric supply arrangements of the international space center. Sunita spent a total of 44 hours, 2 minutes strolling in space.
The World Record of ‘program being broadcasted on most number of TV channels simultaneously’ has been achieved by Satyameva Jayate in India.
This talk show focused on a number of salient issues faced by the modern Indian society and received top ratings from media, critics as well as public. The show featured various sensitive social issues prevalent in India such as female foeticides, child sexual abuse, dowry, medical malpractice, honor killings, insensitivity towards the physically disabled, domestic violence, overuse of pesticides leading to pesticide poisoning, alcoholism, untouchability, plight of senior citizens and water crisis etc.
