The most outstanding records
1. The longest chain of wrappers from chewing gum
Since
March 11, 1965 Dashly Gary (Gary Duschl) from Virginia, USA, has built
his chain of chewing gum wrappers. As at 11 March 2009, its length was
17760 meters, and weight - 365,6 kg. This needed 1370166 wrappers,
amounting to 2740332 units.
2. Fastest man
At
the World Championships in Athletics 2009 in Berlin, a Jamaican
sprinter and triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt (Usain Bolt) set a
record, running 100 meters in 9.58 with. There he ran 200 meters in
19.19 s, which is also a world record. 23-year-old athlete known by the
nickname Lightning Bolt (Lightning Bolt).
3. The smallest man in the world
In
the Book of Guinness smallest adult was listed Hye Pinpin (He
Pingping), born in China in 1988. Measured 22 March 2008 the growth
amounted to 74.61 Pinpina see this neighborhood is Rossiyanka Svetlana
Pankratova with the longest legs in the world (132 cm).
4. First published the human genome
The
first published human genome, an American scientist and entrepreneur Dr
Craig Venter (Craig Venter) in September 2007. The genetic code
belonged to Venter. Full Record contains 6 billion nucleotides of DNA
code base, and the cost of the project was $ 35 million
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