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Showing posts with label Guinness Book Of Records. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Guinness Book Of Records. Show all posts

Friday, 29 August 2025

Red Hot Chille

 For some reason, growing or developing the worlds hottest chilli pepper is a keenly fought for honour ....

PepperX
PepperX
 

... it may be because the Guinness Book of records honours the successful breeder.

Friday, 27 June 2025

Tin Can Record

We have all made Tin Can telephones ....

Tin Can Telephones Are An Old Toy

.... with a string between two tin cans (I say we advisedly, maybe kids these days stopped doing this? Perhaps kids think this is stupid as phones don't have wires?).

Friday, 22 March 2024

The Big Tooth Fairy

The record for the biggest tooth extracted from a human mouth, was held by Urvil Patel of India (and his dentist Dr Jaimin Patel) .....

Urvil Patel's Tooth
Urvil Patel's Tooth

..... who had the longest human tooth pulled, at 3.67cm (1.44 in).

Friday, 12 February 2016

Copy Cats

India achieved its Independence in 1948. Since then it has eschewed its Imperial Raj past. In fact so much so, that many fine Victorian buildings have been allowed to fall into decay as 'imperialist relics' across the country.

However it appears that some 'modern' Indian companies have forgotten that they are meant to be ignoring their ignoble past under the British, and even the Muslim Mughals, and follow Hindu classical building styles.

The Infosys Campus Mysore .... Looks Familiar?

Friday, 11 April 2014

Forbidden Facts

In an another of those 'big snake eats big croc' stories, this time the snake didn't burst open, as the last media example of this event illustrated.

Snake v Crocodile
Snake v Crocodile

The pictures speak for themselves this time and have gone viral, as everyone reads these sorts of Lion v Tiger stories .....
 

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