Youtuber Dan TDM enters Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition for Minecraft channel

  

The hugely popular British Youtuber and gamer Daniel Middleton, better known as “Dan TDM”, is featured in the new Guinness World Records 2017 Gamer’s Edition with the impressive title Most views for a dedicated Minecraft video channel.

 

 

 

 

 

He had amassed a staggering 7,943,141,552 views on his channel “TheDiamondMinecart // DAN TDM” as of 23 Aug 2016, having uploaded over 2,000 different videos of himself playing and commenting on his Minecraft world.

Dan TDM told Guinness World Records why the game has him hooked: “Minecraft is special because you can make it any game you want. You can build, go on adventures, load other people’s worlds… It’s just a game that does everything.”

 

The young YouTuber’s popularity has rocketed in just a few years among young gamers thanks to his funny and personal videos that have made not only him a star, but his two pugs too.

Dan’s brother first introduced him to Minecraft five years ago, and he has played the game every day since.

 

While working at a supermarket part time and studying for a degree at university, he created his earliest Minecraft videos.

 

Once he was able to monetize his channel, he then moved to making them full time.

 

 

 

Dan was thrilled to find out he would be appearing in the book: “It feels amazing to be in the Guinness World Records books. To have them as a kid every year and then actually be in one is mind-blowing – it’s absolutely crazy,” he said.

 

Stephen Daultrey, Editor of the Guinness World Records 2017 Gamer’s Edition, commented: “DanTDM’s viewership is extraordinary and indicative of his success in creating videos that Minecraft users want to watch. We’re happy to add his record to this list of awesome gaming records in this year’s Gamer’s Edition.”

World’s oldest manatee enters Guinness World Records 2017 Edition

  

Born on 21 July 1948, Snooty is currently 67 years old and lives at the South Florida Museum in Bradenton, Florida, USA, where he was first brought in 1949 when he was just a calf.

 He lives in a 60,000-US-gal (230,000-litre) pool with two other manatees.

Snooty’s longevity owes much to the fact that he lives in a controlled environment.

 

 

In the wild, factors such as algal blooms, boat strikes and fishing debris see most manatees die before they reach the age of 10.

 In terms of age, according to Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission which monitors manatee populations and performs routine necropsies/post-mortems, the oldest aged wild Florida manatee was 59 years old – with the next oldest having reached 48 years of age.

Over time, tame Snooty has bonded with visitors and staff at the South Florida Museum. As communications manager Jessica Schubick puts it: "He's definitely more interested in people than other manatees. He doesn't really seem to form bonds with other manatees, but doesn't seem to mind them. He really likes people."

 

When Snooty turned 67th in July 2015, fans from all over the world inundated the popular marine mammal with birthday cards to congratulate him and the museum on his incredible age.

 

Snooty appears in the new Guinness World Records 2017 Edition book alongside hundreds of other amazing record-breaking animals.

 

 

Donnie Wahlberg Hangs Tough, Sets World Selfie Record

Guinness Worlds Record adjudicator Sarah Casson watches as Donnie Wahlberg poses for a record 122 selfies in 3 minutes.

Donnie Wahlberg just had his biggest record in 25 years, but it’s for selfies, not songs.

Wahlberg set a record for “Most Selfies In 3 Minutes” by posing for 122 of them while on board the New Kids on The Block cruise in Cozumel, Mexico, Guinness announced in a news release. 

 

In the process, Wahlberg, who currently stars on the CBS series “Blue Bloods,” broke the old record of 119 set by members of Aruba, a company in Singapore. 

Wahlberg is no new kid on the block when it comes to attempting selfie world records.
Not everyone on the ship got to share in the world record attempt. The cruise, now in its 8th year, had 3,000 passengers in all.

The teen-idol-turned-TV-star attempted to set a record on last year’s NKOTB cruise, but fell short after Guinness officials reviewed his evidence. 

World records keep racking up in UAE

  

Talal Omar does not like to use words like "wacky" or "crazy".

When it comes to describing the people compelled to set and break records on a daily basis in the UAE, Mr Omar, the Middle East and North Africa manager for Guinness World Records, prefers words like "creativity" and "passion".

There have been attempts at the world’s largest hopping race, riding a horse on its hind legs, and the biggest number of knuckle push-ups.

More than 400 people in the UAE apply to join the record books each year and an average of 70 a year succeed – that is more than one a week.

"They are really special people," insists Mr Omar. "Not every record is interesting to different people, but we value every one and do not distinguish between records. It is all inclusive, and we appreciate that everyone has a different talent."

Last week, two records were set – just another week in the office, as far as Guinness’s Dubai headquarters in the Middle East is concerned.

At Gitex technology week in an event hosted by the electronics giant Samsung, 461 people wore headsets to set the record of the most number of people riding a virtual reality rollercoaster at the same time for an hour.

On Friday, a vast stainless steel vat was filled with 2,831 kilograms of mango sticky rice to set a record for the world’s largest batch of the dish. It took seven months of planning and 10 hours to prepare.

What is more noteworthy is that the effort was not a record waiting to be broken. A thousand kilograms of rice, 400kg of fresh mangoes, 500 litres of coconut milk, 500l of coconut cream, 250kg of sugar and 25kg of salt were used.

It was dreamt up by Maurice Fitzgerald, executive chef at the Anantara Dubai The Palm Resort and Spa, who wanted to launch the hotel’s gourmet food festival "with a bang".

"It was always on my bucket list," he says. "We wanted to challenge ourselves and we will be able to talk about it for years to come."

It is up to prospective record-setters to suggest a challenge, the only criteria being that it should be possible to beat anywhere in the world and it should be quantifiable.

Dubai outstrips the rest of the Middle East when it comes to setting records – no surprise for a city known for its superlatives and priding itself on boasting the biggest, the grandest and the most expensive.

There are records for the longest, driverless metro network, the tallest man-made structure on land, the largest indoor ski resort, the highest restaurant and the longest queue of taxis. Dubai Taxi Corporation set a record by assembling 1,100 cabs for a parade along Sheikh Zayed Road in March 2000.

The UAE is also known for records such as the fastest 10-metre sprint by a horse on its hind legs, the most number of people tying their shoelaces in a minute, the most number of people unwrapping a sweet simultaneously, and the largest gathering of people with the same name (1,096 Mohammeds in 2005).

Even government officials, charities and police have been eager to show their willingness to achieve the extraordinary.

Last year, Dubai Police gathered the largest number of signatures (13,288) expressing loyalty to the country’s leadership, beating the previous record of 12,884 signatures set in China.

In Abu Dhabi, records have been set for the following: the most expensively decorated Christmas tree, at Emirates Palace Hotel; the most expensive car licence plate, sold to Saeed Khouri for Dh52.2 million in 2008; and the most numbers of pull-ups in 24 hours, burpees in an hour and knuckle push-ups, all completed by Australian Eva Clarke at Al Wahda Mall.

5 Guinness World Records only S’poreans are capable of setting that will make you go ‘Whut?’

As of Oct. 17, Singapore has yet another Guinness world record added to its list — this time, for breaking the world record for the largest reunion of people born in the same hospital.

Some 2,241 members of the public, who were all born in KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, turned up at Bishan Stadium in the morning to break the world record previously set by a hospital in the Philippines.

Before you think these people had nothing better to do on a Sunday morning, let us explain.

The record-setting was one part of an event organised by the hospital to “celebrate Singapore, family life and an active lifestyle,” and was attended by Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean and Senior Minister of State Josephine Teo.

So the event was not just an avenue for us to let loose our propensity to be the best in all aspects.

But even if it were so, we wouldn’t really have been surprised.

Here are some other Guinness world records set in Singapore and by Singaporeans that might make you go “whaaaa… okay”.

1. The world’s largest jelly mosaic

A group of Singaporean students from the Imperial College Singapore Society produced a 19.8m by 12.8m Singapore flag in 2004, made entirely of jelly (agar-agar). 

Image from The Newspaper of Imperial College London

It took 80 Singaporean students nine hours to put the flag together in the middle of the Queen’s Lawn at Imperial College. A total of 16,125 pieces of jelly were used.
The students had embarked on the project to raise the profile of Singapore abroad.

In case you were wondering what they did with all that agar-agar, they ate it — they being the students and approximately 100 spectators who turned up to witness the event.

2. The world’s largest curry (cooked at a single time)

Last year, at the Indian Gourmet Festival Suvai 2015, the world record that was set is a testament to the magnitude of Singaporeans’ love for food — the world’s largest curry, weighing 15 tonnes, or about 15,000kg was prepared at the event.

The Indian Chefs and Culinary Association even worked with engineers from the Singapore Civil Defence Force and Public Utilities Board to decide on how many stoves were needed and how fast water could be filled into the 11-metre curry pot. 

3. Largest gathering of people dressed as ghosts

You read that right. In June this year, another Guinness world record was set in Singapore when 263 people donned white onesies to welcome Melissa McCarthy at a red carpet event in Marina Bay Sands, who stars in the 2016 all-female remake of the movie “Ghostbusters”.

When have you ever seen a large group of adults wearing all-white outfits, in public no less? PAP convention, perhaps? Amazing. 

4. Most people applying false eyelashes

This world record was set when 324 participants simultaneously put on false eyelashes at The Ground Theatre @ SCAPE in September 2014.

The event was organised by Japanese cosmetic brand Dolly Wink, as part of an outreach programme in support of the Breast Cancer Foundation.

Sounds like a great effort, but we’re still not quite sure if we see the link, though.

5. Most people wearing balloon hats

Ending off this list (that seems to have grown in absurdity) is perhaps one of the most well-known world records set in Singapore in recent years.

Image from The Australian

Why? Because we all remember this image from 2014.

A total of 5,911 party-goers, including our Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, donned silly-looking balloon hats in an attempt to set a new world record during the 2014-2015 New Year’s Eve countdown party at Bishan-Ang Mo Kio park.

Needless to say, we smashed the previous world record and staked our claim as the country that had the most number of people wear balloon hats at the same time.

Actually, we’re betting we also made the world record for the most country leaders wearing balloon hats.

Nice.

Six-year-old Indian boy skates under 36 cars to set new world record

  

Six-year-old Om Swaroop Gowda from India has glided into the record books following a successful attempt at the Farthest distance limbo-skating under cars.


At Orion Mall in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, the impressive young boy travelled a staggering 65.283 m (214 ft 2.2 in) while holding his body just above ground and maintaining a splits position throughout.

Om managed to clear 36 cars during the incredible challenge.

Official Guinness World Records adjudicator Rishi Nath attended the event to ensure that all the rules for were followed correctly.

To set this record, the gap between the parked vehicles can be no more than 20 cm and the gap underneath each car can be no more than 35 cm.

As with all limbo skating attempts, the challenger’s hands and fingers are not allowed to touch the ground at any point during the attempt.

India Live Today reported that Om’s coach, Raghavendra K from RV Skating and Sports Club said: “I am feeling very proud.”

Previously, the farthest distance limbo skating under cars was 48.21 metres (158 ft 2 in) and was achieved by Shreeya Rakesh Deshpande (India) at Kagal five star MIDC, Kolhapur India in 2012.

Canadian sets world’s oldest plumber record at the age of 92

Lorne Figley is content with his time spent in the inner workings of most people’s homes. 

Amongst pipes, refrigerators, air conditioning units, and sheet metal, you’ll most likely find him in a blue jumpsuit figuring out the best way to fix the issue he was hired to solve.

 

 

Although most retire in their late 60s, Figley has no intention to stop his ongoing 65-year plumbing career.

At the grand old age of 92, his career has brought him many rewarding situations, but being recognised by Guinness World Records for being the world's Oldest plumber may arguably be the highlight. 

Lorne began his journey when he returned from WWII after fighting with the Canadian forces during the liberation of Holland. 

At that point he didn’t know much about plumbing, but that would soon change. 

In 1947 he concluded a sheet metal apprenticeship, which lead him to form the Broadway Heating Ltd. with four of his friends.

 

 

After a relatively successful start, the friends determined there was opportunity to grow and Lorne decided to hire a plumber in 1951 - a decision that would ultimately lead him towards his record-breaking career.

Lorne completed a Red Seal (Journeyman) certification in steam fitting/pipefitting, plumbing, refrigeration and air conditioning, giving him the well-rounded background that he would need to buy out his co-owners and become the sole proprietor of the company. 

Lorne’s passion for the trade is fuelled by his love for problem solving, and the trouble-shooting nature that comes with the job.

His wit and natural handiness paid off—after earning his Interprovincial Red Seal tickets, he was able to expand his systematic reasoning to North West territories, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, Canada.

 

Unlike most areas of work, the field of plumbing hasn't arguably evolved a great deal over time. 

Lorne is still able to enjoy the work that he loves as the basic rules of design and engineering remaining unchanged since he first learned the work in the 1950s.

Figley smiles when driving around Saskatoon area, and sees commercial buildings and homes where he installed the plumbing and heating systems nearly 60 years ago.

His part in the work lends him a feeling of pride and accomplishment, for maintaining his world long enough to become a Guinness World Records title holder.

 

 

That feeling won’t go away any time soon, according to Lorne, the future is bright and filled with plumbing, heating, and refrigeration prospects. 

“Working helps keep my body fit and my brain sharp,” says Figley, “I hope to die with a pipe wrench in my hand!”

American explorers recognised by Guinness World Records for completing the first ever ascent of Meru Peak Shark's Fin

American explorers Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk first attempted to climb India’s legendary Meru Peak via the Shark’s Fin as a group back in 2008, but stormy weather conditions forced them to divert their course just 100 metres from the top - tantalisingly close to the uncharted 21,850 ft summit.

They weren’t the first team of elite alpinists to be beaten by the Himalayas’ most technically challenging and dangerous mountain peak, but two years later the determined mountaineers returned to conquer it and successfully achieved the world’sFirst ascent of the Shark's Fin route, Meru Peak.

Speaking to Guinness World Records in a recent interview, Conrad explained: “The central pillar of Meru, the Shark’s Fin, was unclimbed when we tried the peak. Combine this with the aesthetic nature of the line and it was an obvious attraction for us.”

The group had known each other for a long time prior to the historic expedition as part of The North Face athletes team, with Conrad and Jimmy embarking on a climbing trip together as early as 2001. Conrad then met Renan in 2005 and they took on their first mountain in Nepal.

Renan was involved in a serious skiing accident in 2011 which left him with a broken spine and fractured skull, but it was important to the three men to go back and scale the summit together – and they did, less than 12 months later.

 

Image credit: Jimmy Chin

Considered to be centre of the universe in Buddhist mythology, the Shark’s Fin is essentially a 4,000 ft wall and the steepest and most demanding line to take up the enormous Meru Peak.

It took the trio 12 days of gruelling climbing in temperatures of around -20ºF to finally get there safely.

“The hardest moment was when the portaledge [hanging tent] snapped and we were struck by falling ice. We were not certain we would make it to the summit,” Conrad said.

Although the trio's friend Chris Fiegenshaw was stationed at base camp with a radio allowing the team to contact him should they encouter problems, for the trek itself the team had only each other for support, carrying their own gear and taking it in turns to “lead the pitches” – a method which sees the leader of the group ascend a section of the peak, place their gear down, before stopping to anchor himself to the mountain rock in order to protect the other climbers from falling.

With Conrad, Jimmy and Renan having become the first people in the world to ascend the Shark’s Fin - a feat many experts had believed to be impossible, they hope that others will follow in their footsteps.

However, there could be a long wait for a new set of adventurers to take on the challenge. “It might be 20 years before the second ascent of the Shark's Fin route. It generally takes a generation before the next party wants to try the route,” Conrad says.

A documentary called Meru, filmed by the three explorers during their expedition and directed by Jimmy and his wife, was released last year after debuting at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. You can watch the trailer below.

 

World’s largest sushi mosaic sets record for Norway

Norwegian chefs broke the world record for the Largest sushi mosaic as part of the 100-year anniversary celebration of the Bodø Glimt football club. 

The enormous mosaic measured an incredible 56.50 m² (608.16 ft² ) and included a whopping 800 kg salmon, 400 kg rice, 200 l rice vinegar, 480 kg cucumber and 10 kg chives.

The attempt was organised by Leonardo Figueroa Aguilar, Salten Aqua AS, Rå:Bra Sushi, Du Verden Restaurant, Svolvær, AMJ Gruppen Bodø, Glimt, Køltzow and Sparebank1 Nord-Norge and took place during Bodø Glimt’s home game against Sport Club Brann in Aspyrma Stadion, Bodo, Norway.

 

 

The edible artwork was created by four chefs, led by Leonardo Figueroa Aguilar who runs a sushi bar in Stockholm, Sweden.

Speaking of the challenges they faced during the record attempt, Leonardo said: “Because of the rules from the Norwegian food council the sushi mosaic could only stay two hours outside in the football stadium. We were in a hurry in the end and I was close to a heart attack.”

However, official Guinness World Records adjudicator Sofia Greenacre was eventually able to confirm that a new record had been set.

 

 

Following the Guinness World Records guidelines, once the attempt was over the sushi was distributed among the guests at the soccer game.

 

Previously, the largest sushi mosaic measured 41.99 m² (451 ft² 140 in²) and was created by Young Entrepreneurs Group of The Ono Chamber Of Commerce & Industry and The Ono Chamber of Commerce & Industry in Ono, Fukui, Japan, on 31 January 2015.

Big Things in a Small Town: US businessman gets Casey into record books with eight giant inventions

The big country that is the USA showcases many big ideas – and sometimes in small places. In particular, the town of Casey in Illinois is dotted with some of the world’s largest items, all from the workshop Big Things in a Small Town, set up by 61-year-old businessman Jim Bolin. 

Jim has spearheaded the design and creation of a number of giant items as part of his project to get his hometown back on its feet after the recession.

His idea was initially to build one record-breaking item to put Casey on the map, but he caught the bug and now boasts eight amazing items, all fully functional as per Guinness World Records guidelines.

 

 

In October 2015, Jim and his team unveiled the world’s Largest mailbox measuring a whopping 162.63 m³ (5,743.41 ft³).

A giant version of a standard US mailbox, it has an internal volume of 5,743.41 cubic feet (162.63 m³) and a built-in stairway inside the post stand so that visitors can climb up to the box.

Located in Casey’s downtown business district, it’s designed to accept mail (which, when deposited, raises a red flag), and Jim intends to use the interior space to set up a museum of mail history.

 

 

Traditional wooden shoes originated in the Netherlands, but the Largest clogs reside in Jim’s home town.

He created clogs measuring 11 ft 5 in (3.5 m) long, 5 ft 10 in (1.77 m) wide and 4 ft 10 in (1.48 m) tall, outstripping the previous (Dutch) record by more than a foot all round.

The shoes, made of 61 layers of pine, weigh about 1,500 lb (680 kg) each.

Jim and two team-mates carved them by chainsaw then sanded and lacquered them to a glossy finish.

One of Jim’s earliest creations was the Largest golf tee, based on the normal-sized version used at Casey Country Club.

Permanently set up at the Country Club, the gargantuan golf tee stands 30 ft 9 in (9.37 m) tall, with a head diameter of 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) and a shaft width of 2 ft 1 in (64 cm).

Jim and his staff at Bolin Enterprises, Inc. made the tee from yellow pine boards glued together into a large block, and shaped it with chainsaws.

 

 

The businessman also established a new record in Casey for the world’s Largest pitchfork, which measured 8 ft 4 in (2.56 m) wide and 61 ft 2 in (18.64 m) long.

That’s more than 12 times longer than a conventional pitchfork, or about the same as the length of a bowling alley.

It is now on display outside Richards Farm Restaurant. Bolin designed the enormous farming tool to fit with the restaurant’s rustic decor and symbolize Casey’s agricultural community.

It weighs a whopping 1,940 lb (880 kg).

 

 

A wood-and-steel rocking chair, 56 ft 1 in (17.09 m) tall and 32 ft 9 in (9.99 m) wide, brought Jim Bolin, his team and his town another record for the Largest rocking chair.

Each piece was weighed as the chair was constructed, giving a total weight of 46,200 lb (20,955 kg).

A “dove of hope” is carved on the wooden head rest.

The big rocker is one more episode in the USA’s history of giant chairs, which began modestly with a 12-ft (3.6-m) Mission chair built by the citizens of Gardner, Massachusetts, in 1905.

 

 

Besides from these, Jim has also led the construction of the Largest knitting needles (13 ft long, or 3.98 m), the Largest crochet hook (6 ft 1.5 in long, or 1.86 m) and the Largest wind chime (42 ft long, or 12.8 m).

 

 

Speaking to Guinness World Records, Jim said: "The world records is just changed our town tremendously."

These incredible creations appear in the new Guinness World Records 2017 Edition book alongside thousands of other amazing records.

Shortest woman - living (mobile)

The shortest woman living (mobile) is Jyoti Amge (India, born 16 Dec 1993), who measured 62.8 cm (24.7 in) in Nagpur, India, on 16 December 2011.
Jyoti Amge was measured at the Wockhardt Superspeciality Hospital in Nagpur India on her 18th birthday making her eligible to take over this record from Bridgette Jordan. Jyoti Amge had previously held the title for the shortest teenager (female) living.
“Getting this record has made me feel better about myself," said Jyoti. "I feel popular, special and important.”

Ten essential facts about the new Guinness World Records™ record-breaker from India.

1. Born on 16 December, 1993, in Nagpur Jyoti measures 61.95 cm (2 ft) tall, making her shorter than the average two-year-old child.

2. She weighs just 11lb (5 kg).

3. Jyoti is 6.2 cm shorter than the former world's Shortest woman, 22-year old American Bridgette Jordan who stands at 69cm (2 ft 3 in).

4. Joyti has a form of dwarfism called achondroplasia and will not grow any taller than her current height.

5. Due to her size, all of Jyoti's clothes and jewelry are custom made. Even plates and utensils are specially made, as normal-sized silverware is too big.

6. Jyoti has attended regular school since she was 4 and, other than a small desk and chair, she is treated like any other pupil.

7. Just like most other teenage girls, Jyoti loves fashion, make-up and talking on the phone.

8. Her dream of becoming a Bollywood actress is set to come true next year as she is due to star in two movies in 2012.

9. She is set to release an album with her favorite Bhangra/rap star Mika Singh next year.

10. Despite her tiny stature, Jyoti Amge is not the Shortest woman in history. This title continues to be held by Pauline Musters (Netherlands, 1876-1895) who measured just 61cm (24in).

see video here:The World’s Smallest Girl