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The Guinness Book of Records credits Cuban with the " largest single e-commerce transaction ", after he paid $ 40 million for his Gulfstream V jet in October 1999.
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Alexandria is home to what is lauded by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's largest ball of paint.
* 1979: A concert with Jean Michel Jarre on the Place de la Concorde in Paris attracted one million people, securing an entry in the Guinness Book of Records for the largest crowd at an outdoor concert.
" Prinsen ", a toad kept as a pet in Sweden, is listed by the Guinness Book of Records as the largest recorded specimen.
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The Guinness Book of Records began to list world records for speed drinking in this category in the early 1960s.
The 1969 edition of the Guinness Book lists Lawrence Hill ( age 22 ) of Bolton as having consumed a 2. 5 pint yard of ale in 6. 5 seconds on December 17, 1964.
A specimen was bought in 1971 by the Icelandic Museum of National History for the sum of £ 9000, which placed it in the Guinness Book of Records as the most expensive stuffed bird ever sold.
In 2001, the Guinness Book of World Records awarded Brutal Truth the record for " Shortest Music Video " for 1994's " Collateral Damage " ( the song lasts four seconds ).
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, an average adult male will weigh and measure, while an average female will weigh and measure.
It was, according to the Guinness Book of Records, the largest attendance to that date for a single act show.
In the Millenium Edition of the " Guinness Book of World Records ", Hum Aapke Hain Kaun became the Bollywood's highest grossing film.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Brando was paid a record $ 3. 7 million ($ in today's funds ) plus 11. 75 % of the gross profits for 13 days work playing Jor-El in Superman, further adding to his mystique.
This ransom is the highest ever paid according to the Guinness Book of Records.
The Guinness Book of World Records has cited Saipan as having the most equable temperature in the world.
The Guinness Book of World Records has cited Saipan as having the most equable temperature in the world.
* Nile River valley and delta, Egypt, is claimed as the world's biggest oasis by the 2007 edition of The Guinness Book of World Records with a stated area of 22, 000 square kilometres.
With descriptions for approximately 600, 000 words, the Oxford English Dictionary is the world's most comprehensive single-language print dictionary according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
Ye Olde Fighting Cocks in St Albans, Hertfordshire, which holds the Guinness Book of Records | Guinness World Record for the oldest pub in England
According to the Guinness Book of Records the pizza was 37. 4 meters ( 122 feet 8 inches ) in diameter and was made using 500 kg of flour, 800 kg of cheese and 900 kg of tomato puree.
She is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the actor with the longest uninterrupted performance in a single role.
The Guinness Book of World Records recognized a 78 foot wave ride filmed by ESPN as the largest wave ever surfed.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the current record for the greatest distance achieved in hurling an object from a sling is:, using a long sling and a dart.
The 1996 edition of the Guinness Book of Records lists a Saluki as being the fastest dog, reaching a speed of per hour.
She is listed in the 2012 edition of the Guinness Book Of World Records as the highest-paid actress, with $ 56 million.
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* 1925 – Norris McWhirter, Scottish writer and activist co-founder of the Guinness World Records ( d. 2004 )
* 1925 – Ross McWhirter, Scottish writer and activist, co-founder of the Guinness World Records ( d. 1975 )
He hosts The Adam Carolla Show, a talk show distributed as a podcast which set the record as the " most downloaded podcast " as judged by Guinness World Records.
On 17 September 2010 Coronation Street entered the Guinness World Records book as the world's longest-running television soap opera after the American soap opera As the World Turns had its final episode.
The only other known case of triple Leap Day babies is a family in Norway, which logged Feb. 29 births in 1960, 1964 and 1968, according to the Guinness World Records press office.
According to the Guinness World Records, the passenger terminal of the HKIA was the world's largest airport terminal upon opening, and is at present the world's third largest airport terminal building, with a covered area of 550, 000 m² and recently increased to 570, 000 m².
In the UK the Comedy Store Players are a well known improv group, who are also in the Guinness World Records
* 1982 – Brahim Takioullah, Moroccan Guinness World Records holder for the " World's largest feet "
According to Guinness World Records 2009, Led Zeppelin hold the world record for the " Highest Demand for Tickets for One Music Concert " as 20 million requests for the reunion show were rendered online.
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( Guinness Book of World Records credits her with the longest Oscar acceptance speech, at five minutes and 30 seconds, after which the Academy Awards instituted a time limit.
The Guinness Book of World Records credits Judge Dread for having the highest number of banned songs of all time, 11.
In the opening credits of The Bridge on the River Kwai ( 1957 ), Alec Guinness, who is generally regarded as the main character in the film, receives third billing, after William Holden ( who demanded top billing ) and Jack Hawkins ( who does not even appear until halfway through the picture ).
However in the closing credits, Guinness is billed second with Hawkins third.
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In 1987 went to the " Carnival Chicharrero " Cuban singer Celia Cruz with orchestra Billo's Caracas Boys, attended by 250, 000 people, was registered in the Guinness of Records as the largest gathering of people in an outdoor plaza to attend a concert, a record she holds today.
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Taverne's Lincoln by-election campaign was also helped to a lesser degree by problems with the Conservative candidate, Monday Club chairman Jonathan Guinness.
On December 3, 2004, the ceremony broke the Guinness World Record for Christmas caroling with 7, 514 carolers.
* When finished with a head of Guinness stout, the result is called an Irish Russian or a Smooth Black Russian.
This has also given rise to the " Chelsea Cocktail ", a pint of Guinness garnished with a stick of celery.
The park, the second largest municipal park in Dublin, is part of a former 2 km² ( 500 acre ) estate assembled by members of the Guinness family, beginning with Benjamin Lee Guinness in 1835 ( the largest municipal park is nearby ( North ) Bull Island, also shared between Clontarf and Raheny ).
Dahomey was chosen for some of the filming locations in the movie, The Comedians ( 1967 film ), with an all-star cast that included Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Lillian Gish, James Earl Jones, Roscoe Lee Brown, Alec Guinness, Raymond St. Jacques, Gloria Foster, Zakes Mokae, Paul Ford, Georg Stanford Brown, Peter Ustinov, Douta Seck and Cicely Tyson.
British band Napalm Death holds the Guinness World Record for shortest song ever recorded with the one-second " You Suffer " ( 1987 ).
The current holder of the Guinness World Record for Knitting with the Largest Knitting Needles is Julia Hopson of Penzance in Cornwall.
In September 2011 the Koenigsegg Agera R broke the Guinness World Record-0-300-0 km / h with a time of just 21. 19 seconds.
These started with Single Stout Porter at around 1. 066 °, Double Stout Porter ( such as Guinness ) at 1. 072 °, Triple Stout Porter at 1. 078 ° and Imperial Stout Porter at 1. 095 ° and more.
In general, a sling bullet lobbed in a high trajectory can achieve ranges approaching 400 m ; the current Guinness World Record distance of an object thrown with a sling stands at 477. 0 m, set by David Engvall in 1992 using a metal dart.
His first major comedy role was in The Lavender Hill Mob ( 1951 ): with Alfie Bass he made up the bullion robbery gang headed by Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway.
According to the Guinness World Book of Records ( 2005 ), Aniston ( along with her female costars ) became the highest paid TV actress of all time with her $ 1 million-per-episode paycheck for the tenth season of Friends.
Guinness said in interviews that he developed his Arab accent from a conversation he had with Omar Sharif.
Alec Guinness recounted that Hawkins was reprimanded by Lean for celebrating the end of a day's filming with an impromptu dance.
For a time, Lean was interested in a biopic of Gandhi, with Alec Guinness to play the title role and Emeric Pressburger writing the screenplay, but Lean eventually lost interest in the project.
Guinness consistently listed " Rock Around the Clock " as having the highest claim of any pop music recording, coming second in sales only to Bing Crosby's 1942 recording of " White Christmas ", which was also listed as having sold 25 million copies with a further estimated 100 million copies sold in other versions.
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