Ghanaian social media witnessed a surge in trends when Patrick Amenuvor’s commencement of what was initially perceived as a Stand-a-Thon went viral.
In an exclusive interview with renowned Ghanaian blogger and content creator, Zion Felix, Patrick shed light on the inspiration behind his attempt.
Patrick disclosed that the idea stemmed from Afua Asantewaa’s Singathon, a notable feat in the online community.
To add a unique touch, Patrick and his team coined the term “stand-a-thon,” inspired by the absence of such attempts on the Guinness World Record official pages.
However, Patrick faced a hurdle when confronted with the significant cost associated with filing a Guinness World Record application.
This financial barrier left him perplexed, prompting him to embark on the challenge without the official approval of the Guinness World Record board.
For more insights, delve into the comprehensive interview below.
With Hilda Baci’s remarkable achievement of cooking for 100 hours and 40 minutes, many people want to make history and are considering breaking records.
However, some world records are virtually difficult to break, here are five of the most difficult records to break you shouldn’t even try.
1. Most roof tiles broken in one minute with bare hands
Can you imagine breaking roof tiles with your bare hands? Well, someone has done that. On the set of “Lo Show dei Record” in Italy on July 11, 2014, taekwondo expert, Lisa Dennis broke 923 roof tiles in one minute with just her bare hands.
2. Most bees on a human body
Did you know that Ruan Liangming, a man from China, currently holds the world record for wearing the thickest bee suit? It’s quite an impressive feat! There were about 637,000 bees on his body, and they weighed together about 140 pounds. Thankfully, Guinness does not recognise dangerous stunts like this.
3. Most cockroaches eaten by a human
An Englishman by the name of Ken Edwards made an appearance on The Big Breakfast TV show on March 5th, 2001, where he astounded viewers by devouring a record-breaking 36 cockroaches in just one minute. It’s hard to imagine anyone having the stomach for such a feat but Edwards proven himself to be quite the insect connoisseur!
4. The heaviest aircraft that a person has ever pulled
Kevin Fast set the record for the heaviest vehicle to be carried over at a height of 100 feet on September 15, 2008. The airplane weighed over 57,243 Kg. This sounds like a real-life Hulk.
5. Most metal is eaten by a human
Michel Lotito, a man from Grenoble, France, was known for eating items that are typically not thought of as edible as televisions, bicycles, and even a whole aeroplane. Lotito, who reportedly consumed approximately nine tons of metal by 1997, suffered from a disease that made him eat things other than food. Lotito died from natural causes and not metal eating as you would expect.
A five-month-old bar-tailed godwit recently smashed the record for long-distance migration after flying 13,560 kilometers non-stop over a periodof 11 days.
Every autumn, millions of migratory birds take to the sky for a long and perilous journey to escape the coming cold, feed and breed for the next few months.
Many of them cover impressive distances of over 10,000 kilometers (6,200 miles), but this year, one small bird surpassed all expectations regarding long-distance flying, traveling a whopping 13,560 kilometers (8,425 miles) without stopping, and setting a new Guinness record in the process.
And it was all because of an unusual detour that could have cost the bird its life, considering that the non-stop journey pushed its flight capacity to the limit.
Last month, the young bar-tailed godwit – a wetland bird species – took off from Alaska on its way to New Zealand for the winter, but somehow, at one point during its grueling journey, the small bird took a little detour that added an extra 500 kilometers to its initial itinerary. That seems like a small distance to cover, considering that the normal route would have seen it fly around 13,000 kilometers, but it’s actually a significant difference that could have had fatal consequences.
“Short-tailed shearwaters and mutton birds can land on the water and feed,” Eric Woehler of Birdlife Tasmania told ABC News. “If a godwit lands on water, it’s dead. It doesn’t have the webbing in its feet, it has no way of getting off the water. So if it falls into the water from exhaustion, if bad weather forces it onto the ocean surface, that’s it.”
Scientists were able to track the godwit’s record flight with the help of a tiny tracker that only weighed 5 grams. Technological advancements have allowed researchers to track such small species of birds without endangering them, as adding any kind of significant weight to a creature that weighs only between 300 and 400 grams could put its life in danger.
“It’s one thing to put a satellite tag on an albatross that weights five or more kilos but it’s a completely different story in terms of technology and ethics to put a tracker on a bird that weighs only 300 or 400 grams,” Dr. Woehler said.
Recorded data showed that the five-month-old bar-tailed godwit took off on October 13 from the wetlands of the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta in Alaska, followed the regular route across the Pacific Ocean down to New Caledonia and through the Tasman Sea, before making an unexpected 90-degree turn that saw it head towards Tasmania rather than New Zealand.
Dr. Woehler estimates that the bird lost “half or more of its body weight,” during the 11-day continuous flight, but it made it to dry land safely, setting a new Guinness record for long-distance bird flight. The previous record had been set in 2020 by another bar-tailed godwit that had covered 12,000 km (7,500 miles) in 11 days.
Interestingly, scientists have yet to understand how birds like the bar-tailed godwit are able to navigate such large distances without stopping and without getting lost.
The Guinness Book of Recordshas named an Elderly dog, who is 22 years old, as the oldest living dog in the world.
Although the dog’s owner Alex Wolf of Colorado, USA, adopted him from a rescue shelter in 2002, more than 20 years ago, he was actually born on September 24, 2000, two years earlier.
Alex, who is now 40 years old, claims to have met him while attending a California university.
Speaking to Today, Alex said; ‘He’s been there every step of the way. ‘I’m so glad we got him. He’s the best.
‘If we were having a later night, he would stay up, and if I was sleeping in, he would sleep in. He was one of the guys.’
Asked what he thought was the secret to his longevity, he said: ‘I give him all the credit. He’s gotten a lot of love, and I think he’s just a strong dog. He’s been there every step of the way. I’m so glad we got him. He’s the best.’
Alex had intended to have a larger dog than 7kg Gino when he originally went to the animal shelter to get a puppy.
However, once he met the dog, he realized he was the one and never turned around.
He said: ‘I’ve taken great care of him over the years and he is still in relatively very good shape…and really cute still which is surprising considering his age!’
Despite his accomplishment, Gino wasn’t the oldest dog ever recorded.
Bluey, an Australian cattle dog who lived to be 29 years old before being euthanized in 1939, holds the record for the longest lifespan.
A medium-sized dog typically lives 10 to 13 years.
James and Chloe Lusted have entered the Guinness Book of Records once as the couple with the greatest height difference (different sexes).
On June 2, 2021, they broke the record for the greatest height difference of a married couple and have since kept the record unbeatable till date.
The couple got married in 2016 and have somewhat proved to the world that love has no bounds, with nearly a height difference of 3ft between them.
Chloe, who stands at 166.1 cm (5ft 5.4 in), is 2ft 1.6 taller than her husband, James, who stands at 109.3 cm (3ft 7 in).
However, James has Diastrophic Dysplasia, a rare genetic disorder that affects bones and cartilage development.
Per reports, he initially doubted that he would ever get married due to his condition.
“Being 3 ft 7 is tricky sometimes. But I can do everything you can do, just in a different way,” Chloe’s husband, James said after maintaining the record with his wife.
“James and Chloe Lusted have been married since 2016. They are based in the UK and come from the same hometown. Together they feature in the new Guinness World Records 2023 edition, and on 2 June 2021, they broke the record for the greatest height differential of a married couple (different sexes/taller woman) With James standing at 109.3 cm (3ft 7 in) and his wife Chloe being 166.1 cm (5ft 5.4 in), the couple has 56.8cm – almost 2 ft (1ft, 10 in) – between them. Being 3 ft 7 is tricky sometimes. But I can do everything you can do, just in a different way. #GWR2023.” Guinness Book of Records shared on their Facebook page.
James works as an actor and TV presenter, and Chloe works as a teacher.
The couple, who have been married for a period of five years, have a 3-year-old daughter named Olivia.
