Skateboarder Misho Erban accelerates from a standing start to 129.94kph (80.74mph) in a record breaking downhill run at Les Eboulements in Quebec.
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Farmer Paddy Herlihy from Inchmore, Coolea, Macroom, Co Cork with his two week old Galloway calf Jack. Jack was found in a field on a wet night and weighed only 12lbs and stood 15in high. Jack is going forward to the Guinness book of records as the smallest calf in the world, usually when born they weigh about 70lbs.
(Hat tip: @denisoregan)
On Fourth Lake in New York’s Adirondacks, a crush of 1,902 canoes and kayaks attempts to break a “largest raft” world record. Rules dictate that the megastructure float freely for at least 30 seconds, held together only by hands.
Fans of the late great John Peel will want to take a gander at The John Peel Project – an excellent pop-up interactive links/archive site with a huge collection of photos, video, radio shows (including Peel Sessions) and blog entries.
You can even browse through Peel’s extensive record collection (which is being uploaded in blocks of 100 in alphabetical order between May and October).
John Peel’s record collection: the first look (Guardian)
(Hat tip: Peter Lynch)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Lyt7cUmk8k
Gulp.
One for the Guinness Book of Records, surely?
Thanks Phil Jones at Bookfaked.com
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_Ss6z5ES8Q
This month, the Boy Scouts of America organisation celebrated its 100th anniversary by simultaneously launching 3,130 model rockets (70 of the planned 3200 didn’t make it) into the Heuston sky, setting a world record and utterly trashing the previous record of 965.
Scout Jacob Smith was chosen to trigger the launch. Envy him.
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