Most Number Of People Sitting On One Chair – World Record
Tampines West CSC, together with East View Primary School, Junyuan Primary School, Junyuan Secondary School, Springfield Secondary School, Tampines Primary School and Tampines Secondary School, broke the world record for the most number of people sitting on a chair. The first person sat on a chair and all others in front, in a line, sat on the previous person’s lap. ... Read More »
World’s Largest Game Of Leapfrog
1,300 staff and students of Republic Polytechnic broke the world’s largest mass leapfrog record. The event on 4 Apr 2008 was part of RP’s orientation programme. Read More »
World’s Longest Journey On Skates
Full-time adventurer Khoo Swee Chiow completed a gruelling 94-day journey on skates. Khoo travelled a total of 6,088 km, making him the record holder for the world’s longest journey on skates. Khoo started his skating journey from Hanoi on 20 Oct 2007 and arrived at Shangri-La Singapore on 21 Jan 2008. Read More »
World’s Fastest Time To Complete 7 Marathons In 7 Continents
On 19 Dec 2007, Dr William Tan became the fastest person in the world to complete 7 marathons across 7 continents in 26 days and 17 hours. His amazing race took him to Antarctica, Chile, Egypt, Thailand, Japan, Kenya, Italy, England, New Zealand, and USA between Nov and Dec 2007. Read More »
World’s Largest Passenger Aircraft
The largest passenger aircraft is the Airbus 380, manufactured by EADS (Airbus SAS). It started service in October 2007 with Singapore Airlines. It has a wingspan of 79.8m and a maximum designed take off weight of 560 tons. It has a range of 15,000 km and a maximum fuel capacity is 310,000 litres. It will normally be fitted with around ... Read More »
