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Do you know any Guinness World Records, share the the fun!!
Especially "strange" ones!


Here I kick it off with:



LONGEST WORDS

(45) PNEUMONO*ULTRA*MICRO*SCOPIC*SILICO*VOLCANO*CONIOSIS (also spelled PNEUMONO*ULTRA*MICRO*SCOPIC*SILICO*VOLCANO*KONIOSIS) = a lung disease caused by breathing in particles of siliceous volcanic dust.
This is the longest word in any English dictionary. However, it was coined by Everett Smith, the President of The National Puzzlers' League, in 1935 purely for the purpose of inventing a new "longest word". The Oxford English Dictionary described the word as factitious.
Nevertheless it also appears in the Webster's, Random House, and Chambers dictionaries.

(37) HEPATICO*CHOLANGIO*CHOLECYST*ENTERO*STOMIES = a surgical creation of a connection between the gall bladder and a hepatic duct and between the intestine and the gall bladder.
This is the longest word in Gould's Medical Dictionary.

(34) SUPER*CALI*FRAGI*LISTIC*EXPI*ALI*DOCIOUS = song title from the Walt Disney movie Mary Poppins.
It is in the Oxford English Dictionary.

"But then one day I learned a word
That saved me achin' nose,
The biggest word you ever 'eard,
And this is 'ow it goes:
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!"

(30) HIPPOPOTO*MONSTRO*SESQUIPED*AL*IAN = pertaining to a very long word.
From Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words.

(29) FLOCCI*NAUCINI*HILIPIL*IFICATION = an estimation of something as worthless.
This is the longest word in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Interestingly the most common letter in English, E, does not appear in this word at all, whilst I occurs a total of nine times. The word dates back to 1741. The 1992 Guinness Book of World Records calls flocci*nauci*nihili*pilification the longest real word in the Oxford English Dictionary, and refers to pneumono*ultra*micro*scopic*silico*volcano*koniosis as the longest made-up one.

(28) ANTI*DIS*ESTABLISH*MENT*ARIAN*ISM = the belief which opposes removing the tie between church and state.
Probably the most popular of the "longest words" in recent decades.

(27) HONORI*FICABILI*TUDINI*TATIBUS = honorableness.
The word first appeared in English in 1599, and in 1721 was listed by Bailey's Dictionary as the longest word in English. It was used by Shakespeare in Love's Labor's Lost (Costard; Act V, Scene I):



CHEMICAL NAMES:

Two chemical terms (3,641 and 1,913 letters long) have appeared in the Guinness Book of World Records. They were withdrawn because they have never been used by chemists, and there is no theoretical limit to the length of possible legitimate chemical terms. A DNA molecule could have a name of over 1,000,000,000 letters if it was written out in full.

(1,185) ACETYL*SERYL*TYROSYL*SERYL*ISO*LEUCYL*THREONYL*SERYL*PROLYL*SERYL*GLUTAMINYL*PHENYL*ALANYL*VALYL*PHE NYL*ALANYL*LEUCYL*SERYL*SERYL*VALYL*TRYPTOPHYL*ALANYL*ASPARTYL*PROLYL*ISOLEUCYL*GLUTAMYL*LEUCYL*LEUC YL*ASPARAGINYL*VALYL*CYSTEINYL*THREONYL*SERYL*SERYL*LEUCYL*GLYCYL*ASPARAGINYL*GLUTAMINYL*PHENYL*ALAN YL*GLUTAMINYL*THREONYL*GLUTAMINYL*GLUTAMINYL*ALANYL*ARGINYL*THREONYL*THREONYL*GLUTAMINYL*VALYL*GLUTA MINYL*GLUTAMINYL*PHENYL*ALANYL*SERYL*GLUTAMINYL*VALYL*TRYPTOPHYL*LYSYL*PROLYL*PHENYL*ALANYL*PROLYL*G LUTAMINYL*SERYL*THREONYL*VALYL*ARGINYL*PHENYL*ALANYL*PROLYL*GLYCYL*ASPARTYL*VALYL*TYROSYL*LYSYL*VALY L*TYROSYL*ARGINYL*TYROSYL*ASPARAGINYL*ALANYL*VALYL*LEUCYL*ASPARTYL*PROLYL*LEUCYL*ISOLEUCYL*THREONYL* ALANYL*LEUCYL*LEUCYL*GLYCYL*THREONYL*PHENYL*ALANYL*ASPARTYL*THREONYL*ARGINYL*ASPARAGINYL*ARGINYL*ISO LEUCYL*ISOLEUCYL*GLUTAMYL*VALYL*GLUTAMYL*ASPARAGINYL*GLUTAMINYL*GLUTAMINYL*SERYL*PROLYL*THREONYL*THR EONYL*ALANYL*GLUTAMYL*THREONYL*LEUCYL*ASPARTYL*ALANYL*THREONYL*ARGINYL*ARGINYL*VALYL*ASPARTYL*ASPART YL*ALANYL*THREONYL*VALYL*ALANYL*ISOLEUCYL*ARGINYL*SERYL*ALANYL*ASPARAGINYL*ISOLEUCYL*ASPARAGINYL*LEU CYL*VALYL*ASPARAGINYL*GLUTAMYL*LEUCYL*VALYL*ARGINYL*GLYCYL*THREONYL*GLYCYL*LEUCYL*TYROSYL*ASPARAGINY L*GLUTAMINYL*ASPARAGINYL*THREONYL*PHENYL*ALANYL*GLUTAMYL*SERYL*METHIONYL*SERYL*GLYCYL*LEUCYL*VALYL*T RYPTOPHYL*THREONYL*SERYL*ALANYL*PROLYL*ALANYL*SERINE = Tobacco Mosaic Virus, Dahlemense Strain.
This word has appeared in the American Chemical Society's Chemical Abstracts and is thus considered by some to be the longest real word.

(39) TETRA*METHYL*DIAMINO*BENZHYDRYL*PHOSPHINOUS = a type of acid.
This is the longest chemical term in the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd Ed.). It does not have its own entry but appears under a citation for another word.

(37) FORMALDEHYDE*TETRA*METHYL*AMIDO*FLUORIMUM
Chemical term in the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd Ed.).

(37) DIMETHYL*AMIDO*PHENYL*DIMETHYL*PYRAZOLONE
Chemical term in the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd Ed.).

(31) DICHLORO*DIPHENYL*TRICHLORO*ETHANE = a pesticide used to kill lice; abbrv. DDT.
It is the longest word in the Macquarie Dictionary and is also in the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd Ed.).



PLACE NAMES:

There are many long place names around the world. Here are a few of the largest.

(85) TAUMATA*WHAKA*TANGI*HANGA*KOAUAU*O*TAMATEA*TURIPUKAKA*PIKI*MAUNGA*HORO*NUKU*POKAI*WHENUA*KITANA*TAHU
A hill in New Zealand. This Maori name was in general use, but is now generally abbreviated to Taumata. The name means: the summit of the hill, where Tamatea, who is known as the land eater, slid down, climbed up and swallowed mountains, played on his nose flute to his loved one.

(66) GORSA*FAWDDACH*AIDRAIGODAN*HEDDO*GLEDDOLON*PENRHYN*AREUR*DRAETH*CEREDIGION
A town in Wales. The name means: the Mawddach station and its dragon teeth at the Northern Penrhyn Road on the golden beach of Cardigan bay.

(58) LLAN*FAIR*PWLL*GWYN*GYLL*GOGERY*CHWYRN*DROBWLL*LLANTY*SILIO*GOGO*GOCH
A town in North Wales. The name roughly translates as: St. Mary's Church in the hollow of the white hazel near to the rapid whirlpool of Llantysilio of the red cave. It is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records.

(41) CHAR*GOGAGOG*MAN*CHAR*GOGAGOG*CHAR*BUNA*GUNGAMOG
Another name for Lake Webster in Massachusetts. Probably the longest name in the United States. Alternative spellings are:
(44) CHAR*GOGGAGOGG*MAN*CHAUG*GAGOGG*CHAU*BUNA*GUNGAMOGG,
(45) CHAR*GOGGAGOGG*MAN*CHAUG*GAGOGG*CHAU*BUNA*GUNGAMAUGG,
(44) CHAR*GOGGAGOGG*MAN*CHAUG*GAGOGG*CHA*BUNA*GUNGAMAUGG.

Can you imagine being asked where you are from when you come from such places!!!

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Some of these are

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews...name_page.html

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World’s smallest functional keyboard is 3 by 1 ½ inch by David Levy.

World’s longest time trapped in an elevator is 6 days in Cyprus starting December 28, 1997.
76 y.o. Kiveli Papajohn in May 2003.

World’s record speed set on a skateboard is 62.55 mph by Gary Hardwick, September 26, 1998.

World’s worst inflation of the 20th century took place in Hungary in 1946. In value, one gold pengo (Hungarian currency) from 1931 was worth 130 million trillion 1946 paper pengos. By the way, that number is 130,000,000,000,000,000,000.

World’s longest kiss is 30 hours 59 minutes by Louisa Almedovar and Rich Langley, December 2001.

[Lotfi-dk]

Any Algerians on Guinness World Record?

[amina_imen]

Originally posted by Lotfi-dk
Any Algerians on Guinness World Record?

Highest Sand Dunes
The world's highest measured sand dunes are those in the Saharan sand sea of Isaouane-n-Tifernine in east-central Algeria. They have a wavelength of 5 km (3 miles) and attain a height of 465 m (1,526 ft). The Sahara is the largest desert in the world, but the whole region was fertile land until about 8,000 years ago.

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Originally posted by Lotfi-dk
Any Algerians on Guinness World Record?

Biggest couscous dish!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/3776309.stm

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Can you imagine the smell of that couscous!!!

Longest Pizza Delivery

On March 22nd, 2001 Bernard Jordaan of Butlers Pizza, Capetown, South Africa, hand-delivered a pizza to Corne Krige, the captain of the Fedsure Stormers rugby team in Sydney, Australia, a distance of 11,042 km (6,861 miles) as the crow flies.

Why would someone do that!!!