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19/01/2023

A giant perch was caught in Alaska!

In Alaska, they caught a huge fish, the weight of which is a little more than seventeen kilograms. This sea bass of incredible size was caught by a simple insurance company, Henry Liebman, who lives in Seattle. Fox News reported that the age of the caught giant could be at least two hundred years.

A fishing enthusiast, Henry, told reporters that on that particular day he went out to sea - about ten kilometers from the coastline. He won his trophy not without a fight and fought to the last until a huge perch head appeared on the surface. As Henry tells, the giant had to be pulled out from a depth of more than two hundred and seventy meters, despite the fact that this type of fish can swim even deeper, up to 1200 meters.

“When I hooked this monster, it took all my strength not to let it go. Time and time again he tried to pull the fishing rod out of my hands. To be honest, I was afraid that my spinning simply could not withstand such a load and the fish would "fly away". Imagine my surprise when I pulled out a sea bass weighing almost twenty kilograms! Later, it turned out that this weight is an Alaska record," said Liebman.

Henry decided to keep the fish and took it to Seattle, where he intended to make an effigy out of the perch and hang it on the wall of his home. However, he allowed scientists to take some skin samples, which were sent to a research center in the city of Juneau. There, marine researchers intended to establish the exact age of the fish. If the fish is really more than two hundred years old, then it was born in the same year when the United States of America entered the war with Great Britain - in 1812. The administration of the town, near which the giant perch was caught, reported that if the age of the perch is confirmed, it will become the second record holder caught in the local waters. The age of the previous similar catch was about two hundred and five years.

Researchers say that if the age of the perch is confirmed, this fish could enter the Guinness Book of Records.

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19/01/2023

The largest and most powerful aircraft in the world

The An-225 "Mriya" aircraft is the largest and most powerful Soviet transport aircraft in the world, created by the Kyiv Antonov Design Bureau.

An-225 with a maximum payload of 640,000 kg is the heaviest aircraft in the world. For comparison, the third largest cargo capacity (after An-124) American military transport aircraft C-5 Galaxy has a maximum equipped weight of 381 thousand kg.
It is so large that the distance covered by the Wright brothers' plane on its first flight can fit in the cargo compartment of the "Dream". It is also the world's largest aircraft to have flown more than once; although its wingspan is smaller than that of the American Hughes H-4 "Spruce Goose", the H-4 made only one short low-altitude test flight. Both the An-124 and the An-225 are larger than the C-5 Galaxy, the largest aircraft in the US.
In November 2004, the International Aeronautics Federation entered the An-225 into the Guinness Book of Records for its 240 records.

Usage history

The prototype made its maiden flight on December 21, 1988, and in March 1989, 106 world and class records were set in a single flight with a maximum take-off weight of over 500,000 kg (1,100,000 lb).

On May 13, 1989, An-225 transported PKL "Buran" from the city of Zhukovsky to Baikonur. A month later, this combination of an airplane and a space shuttle was demonstrated at the Paris Air Show. In September 1990, the An-225 "Dream" appeared at an air show in Farnborough, England, and in 1991 again in Le Bourget. In August 1993, at the MAKS-93 air show in Zhukovsky, the An-225 "Mriya" "performed" already with the Ukrainian flag on the tail and the aircraft number UR-82060.
Currently, there is only one An-225 aircraft in operation. It provides commercial services for the transportation of heavy and non-standard cargo up to 250,000 kilograms. The construction of the second An-225 was practically completed in the late 1980s, according to the Soviet space program. With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990 and the closure of the "Energy-Buran" program, the only functioning An-225 was placed in a hangar, its engines were dismantled for use on An-124 aircraft. The second An-225, close to completion, was also preserved and placed in a hangar. As of 2010, work on the second copy is not underway, but the need for its completion is gradually brewing. Glider designs are constantly being revised and their service life is being extended. In case of completion of the product ser. No. 01-02, its operational and economic characteristics will be slightly better than the first copy of ser. No. 01-01. this is due to the fact that the mass of the structure will be reduced due to modern constructive solutions — the use of new technologies and materials.
In the late 1980s, the Soviet government was looking for ways to profit from the achievements of its military industry. In 1989, ANTK Antonova created a holding company for the provision of heavy cargo transportation services called "Antonova Airlines", which was located in Kyiv and operated from Stansted Airport near London in cooperation with the Air Foyle HeavyLift company. The company started with a fleet of four An-124-100s and three An-12s, but in the late 1990s it became apparent that there was a need for an aircraft larger than the An-124. Considering this need, the mothballed An-225 was reconstructed, modified for the transportation of heavy cargo and returned to service under the leadership of Antonov Airlines.

On May 26, 2001, the An-225 received a type certificate from the Aviation Register of the Interstate Aviation Committee. Mriya made its first commercial flight on January 31, 2002 from Stuttgart to the Kingdom of Oman with a 187.5-ton cargo of food for the US military stationed in the country. Since then, the An-225 has become a "workhorse" along with Ruslan in the aircraft fleet of Antonov Airlines due to the ability to transport objects that previously could not be transported by air, such as locomotives and 150-ton generators. The ability to quickly transport large-sized cargo, which is needed by victims of natural disasters, has provided the aircraft with a reputation as a valuable helper for humanitarian organizations.
Since July 2003, An-225, together with An-124 aircraft, has shipped more than 800 tons of equipment for humanitarian missions in Iraq. The An-225 was also engaged by the US government to transport military supplies to the Middle East to support coalition forces.
Developments are underway to use the aircraft to launch space vehicles. The most interesting project today is the joint Russian-Ukrainian aerospace system BAKS. It is a two-stage air launch complex, consisting of an An-225 carrier aircraft, on which an orbital aircraft or a cargo container is installed. This would reduce the cost of putting cargo into orbit by about 12 times.
In August 2009, "Mriya" was entered into the Guinness Book of Records for transporting the largest single cargo in the history of aviation with a total weight of 187.6 tons. It was a generator weighing 174 tons, transported with a special frame from Frankfurt, Germany to Yerevan, for the new Armenian power plant. The crew of the plane received a certificate indicating that the ship's record was entered in the "Guinness Book of Records".
On June 10, 2010, by order of one of the leading freight forwarding and logistics companies, GEODIS WILSON A/S, the longest cargo in the history of air transportation was transported by a Ukrainian aircraft An-225 — two blades of a windmill, each 42.1 m long, from China (Shijiazhuang airport) to Denmark (Voyens/Skridstrup airport).
On March 25, 2011, the Antonov Airlines An-225 aircraft delivered to Japan humanitarian cargo, generators and equipment with a total weight of 140 tons for victims of earthquakes and tsunamis, on the order of the French government.
In October 2012, the plane delivered to Dushanbe the equipment for the Nuretsk hydroelectric power station, manufactured in Kharkov, OJSC "Corporation TURBOATOM". The cargo with a total weight of 125 tons consisted of a turbine wheel weighing 57 tons, a turbine cover of 36 tons, and related equipment. Only An−225 could deliver such cargo to its destination in one flight.

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19/01/2023

Mrs Morera is 115 years 321 days old, as of 19 January 2023 🙌

María Branyas Morera (USA/Spain) is now confirmed as the world’s oldest woman living and oldest person living, following the death of 118-year-old Lucile Randon (France).

She was born in San Francisco, California, on 4 March 1907, one year after her parents emigrated to the country. Eight years later, they decided to return to Spain, where they settled in Catalonia.

María has called the region home ever since. She has resided in the same nursing home - Residència Santa María del Tura – for the past 22 years.

📷 Residència Santa María del Tura

19/01/2023

The ring with the largest number of diamonds was made in Kyiv

By the New Year, the Ukrainian classical jewelry house "Lobortas" entered the Book of Records thanks to the fact that its jewelers made a ring with the largest number of diamonds in the world. Kyiv jewelers managed to set 2,525 diamonds in a luxurious ring called "Princess Swan", which became an absolute world record.
To create a unique ring, jewelers used diamonds ranging from 0.001-0.05 carats with a total weight of 10.48 carats. All diamonds are G-colored and range from Vvs2 to Vs1 in clarity.
The stylish Swan Queen ring with a very unexpected design was crafted with diamonds specially sourced for the landmark piece by the Shrenuj Group, a diamond and diamond jewelery manufacturer based in Mumbai, India.
The ring took 530 hours to design and 3,625 hours to make. "Lobortas" set a record price for the ring — $1.3 million.
The Swan Queen ring was first presented and measured in Kyiv on July 21, 2011, and then the Guinness Book of Records officially confirmed the world record.

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19/01/2023

Impressive Guinness records of different years

Oh, these Guinness records... And who is not in the famous book, a new edition of which is published every year. Here you will find the longest nails, the tallest mohawk, and the smallest man in the world. Some records are exciting, others make you smile, and some are completely repulsive.

1. 21-year-old Chanel Taper with an incredibly long tongue and 35-year-old Evin Dugas with lush hair entered the Guinness Book of Records as the girls with the longest tongue and the largest afro hairstyle.

2. 24-year-old Edward Nino Hernandez was recognized as the smallest man in the world. He lives in Bogotá, Colombia.

3. Lee Redmond (right), former record holder with the title of "Longest nails", and Melvin Booth - the current holder of the title. His nails are 9 m long. Lee Redmond lost her nails in a car accident in 2010

4. Filipino students, faculty and staff of the University of Santo Tomas made the Dominican cross, which entered the Guinness Book of Records. The cross consisted of more than 20,000 people.

5. Residents of Jerusalem look at the huge kugel -. Traditional Jewish sweets - which became the largest in the world.

6. The largest drum set in the world - 340 units.

7. Freddy Nock walks on the cable car from the top station at 3,303 m above sea level to the bottom station in Sylvaplana, Switzerland.

8. This Egyptian Mustafa Ismail became the owner of the largest biceps and triceps in the world. Their girth is 64 cm.

9. 12. The lowest car (45 cm from the ground to the highest point) in the world. The car is called Mirai ("Future"), and it was assembled by students and teachers of the Faculty of Automotive Engineering in Asakuchi, Japan.

10. Surfers on the longest surfboard in the world - 47 surfers fit on a 12-meter board on the Gold Coast of Australia.

11. The largest collection of Barbie dolls - 15,000 dolls.

12. Elaine Davidson is the woman with the largest number of piercings in the world.

13. 86-year-old Joanna Kaas is recognized as the oldest working gymnast in the world.

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09/01/2023

The widest hips in the world

More recently, a new and very interesting record was recorded in the Guinness Book of Records - it turned out that Los Angeles resident Mikel Ruffinelli has the widest hips in the world.

With a height of only 156 centimeters, the figure of Mikel Ruffinelli cannot be called anything other than magnificent. She is the mother of four children, her weight is 190 kg, and her hip circumference is 2.4 meters. But the 39-year-old record holder is absolutely not embarrassed by the fact that she is much larger in width than in length.

She herself claims that she loves her figure and sees absolutely no reason to go on a diet. Another matter if there were health problems. But they are not! She also believes that men do not like thin girls at all, they really like girls with an "hourglass" figure.

Mikel Ruffinelli is absolutely sure that she has just such a seductive figure. Her opinion is based on the fact that, having such wide hips, she has a rather thin waist - only 1 meter. But this woman has admirers and even admirers of her figure. It is not for nothing that she works as a model and receives up to a thousand dollars for a single photo session.

Mikel's second husband is an IT specialist. They have been living together for 10 years. Husband Mikel assures that he is very satisfied with the appearance of his wife, because he considers her figure very attractive and sexy.

But in addition to the joys, the new record holder of the Guinness Book of Records has to put up with some inconveniences - she does not fit in an ordinary car, so she drives her own truck. In addition, Mikel does not have the opportunity to sit on ordinary chairs, and she had to make a bed to order

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09/01/2023

To commemorate over six decades of space exploration breakthroughs, here are three stellar NASA records that you'll be sure to gravitate towards!

09/01/2023

09/01/2023

Why did Jackie Chan become a Guinness World Record holder twice?

The legend of world cinema, everyone's favorite Chinese actor Jackie Chan was awarded two Guinness World Records certificates during the official presentation of Chan's film "Armor of God 3: Chinese Zodiac" in Shanghai.
The president of the Guinness Book of World Records in China, Ron Simmons, presented Jackie Chan with certificates confirming his records in the categories of "the largest number of roles assigned to one film" and "the largest number of stunts performed by an actor".
For Armor of God 3: Chinese Zodiac, Jackie Chan played a total of 15 roles, including director, producer, actor, stunt director and composer, breaking the previous record of 11 roles for a film held by Robert Rodriguez. Speaking about the achievement, Chan admitted that getting into the pages of the Guinness Book of Records is a recognition of his life's work.

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