The record number of these for a man is 824. What?
A: Living descendants
At the time of his death in October 1992, Samuel S. Mast, aged 96, of Fryburg, Pennsylvania, had 824 living descendants – 11 children, 97 grandchildren, 634 great-grandchildren and 82 great-great-grandchildren.
The record for the longest time between these two events is more than 41 years. What?
A: The birth of two children
Elizabeth Ann Buttle holds the record for the longest interval between the birth of two children. She gave birth to Belinda on May 19, 1956 and Joseph on November 20, 1997. The babies were born 41 years 185 days apart. The mother was 60 years old when her son Joseph was born.
The shortest interval is 208 days.
Two British men just set a new world record by doing this for 52 hours straight. Doing what?
A: Staying on-air
Chris Moyles and “Comedy” Dave Vitti broadcast for 52 hours (and raised nearly $4 million for Comic Relief) on BBC Radio 1.
Photo: BBC
The world record for doing this was recently broken after more than 86 hours. Doing what?
A: Watching TV
Photo: AP
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment held a contest to see who could watch continuous episodes of 24 the longest to promote the release of the DVD box set. Three guys went 86 hours, 6 minutes and 41 seconds for a new Guiness World Record.
(December 2nd at 9:30pm-December 6th just after 11:30am)
They were allowed a 10-minute break every two hours.
