Posts Tagged ‘Guinness’

Google employees break Guinness record on Syrtaki dance

Thursday, September 4, 2008 13:21 1 Comment

2500 Google employees gathered yesterday at Kallipateira athletic venue in Rhodes Island (Greece) and danced Syrtaki (zorba song) in front of Guinness Record book representatives
Until now the record was held by 1608 from Australia
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UPDATEGoogle Inc turns 10 on September 7. Maybe this is the reason for 4,000 Google Employees traveling to Greece
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Firefox 3: Let’s Break The Guinness World Record For The Most Downloads In A Day

Wednesday, June 18, 2008 11:10 3 Comments

Today is the day that not only Firefox 3 is officially released but its also the day that everybody is trying to break Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded on a single day. So go on, download the new browser from here, and take part in something big.
The latest update said:

Mozilla.com web traffic [...]

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64 Year Old Skydiver Will Dive From 40Km To Break Record

Monday, May 26, 2008 18:10 No Comments

In a few hours 64 year old French skydiver Michel Fournier will attempt to break a world record. He will climb up to 40 kilometers, in a balloon, above Canada and will jump!
This jump will take place at an altitude about 4 times higher than commercial airplanes fly at.

North Battleford, in Saskatchewan, is all geared [...]

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Legoland UK Builds World’s tallest LEGO tower

Tuesday, May 6, 2008 21:30 No Comments

500,000 blocks was all it took to make the worlds tallest LEGO tower in Windsor’s Legoland theme park in the UK. The tower, constructed to celebrate the 50th anniversary of LEGO, reaches 29.30 meters in the air (couldn’t they round it up to 30?). The tower is not freestanding. It is supported by stabilizing [...]

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Belgium Coke & Mentos Event For The Guinness Book

Friday, April 25, 2008 15:01 1 Comment

In an earlier article, here in Weberence, we showed you what will happen if you throw a Mentos mint inside a Coca Cola bottle. It seems that pupils in the local schools in the town of Leuven, Belgium, wanted to find out if it really works. So about 1500 pupils gathered around in Ladeuzeplein square [...]

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The Smurfs Have Failed:(

Tuesday, February 5, 2008 11:03 No Comments

395 Croatians gathered on Sunday, dressed up like little blue Smurfs to try to break the world record of “many Smurfs gathered together”. A life dream becoming a reality, an entire country would have the honor to be included in the famous Guinness book of records, through this so smart and wise idea.
The previous world [...]

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