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 “World largest tea party” is held by the city of Indore Indore, MP, India.
More than 40,000 participants joined forces to become a part of the world’s largest tea party. The venue for the particular event was Nehru Stadium in Indore. The date of the event was 28th February, 2008.
The event was organized by the Dainik Bhaskar group which is one of the leading media and publishing house of Central India. The total number of volunteers for the event were 980 who used a total of 2500 liters of milk and 2500 liters of water. Along with that, 250 kgs of tea and sugar were used to prepare the beverage. Tea Board along with consumer goods production company Hindustan Lever were the co-sponsors of the event.
The World Record of “largest flaming image” was achieved by 118 Sandoz employees of Pakistan at the Hotel Serena in Faisalabad, Pakistan.
The World Record of “largest flaming image using candles consisted of 35,478 candles and was achieved by 118 Sandoz employees of Pakistan at the Hotel Serena in Faisalabad, Pakistan, on 10 December 2009.
The completed image was made of the Sandoz logo and motto and had an area of 910.45 m² (9,800 ft²). The number of participants who drew the image was 118 and it took them 7 hours to draw the image. After this, another 1.5 hours were needed to place the candles, and 42 minutes to set them alight.
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 “largest religious gathering of people at single location” has been achieved by Kumbh Mela held in Allahabad, U.P., India.
Kumbh Mela held in Allahabad from 14th Jan, 2013 to 10th March 2013 holds the record for the Worlld’s Largest Religious gathering. The number of people attending the Kumbh Mela in the year 2013 is more than 80 million. Kumbh Mela is a festival involving mass Hidu pilgrimage. It is held every third year in four different cities in India namely Ujjain, Nashik, Allahabad and Haridwar on a rotational basis. Thus, each of the above mentioned cities gets a chance to host the Kumbh Mela every twelve years.
The World Record of creating ‘artful alphanumeric pictures’ has been achieved by Puppala Bapiraju from Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Mr. Bapiraju has drawn unique pictures using the numbers 1 – 100 & alphabets A – Z and creatively converted them into images of objects, cartoons and art. Pictures drawn by Mr. Bapiraju are learning enhancing for children.
