John Carpenter, contestant on ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire’ faces the final question to successfully win the 1 million dollar prize. He still has 3 lifelines. He then calls his father not to ask for an answer, but to inform that he will win 1 million dollars. He was the first person to win 1 million dollars.
Former Liberian President, Charles King, is listed in the Guiness Book Records fot the most fraudulent election reported in history. King received 234,000 votes compare to 15,000 registered voters at the time.
The record for the longest breath hold, 24 minutes 37 seconds was recorded in the Guinness World Records by Budimir Šobat from Croatia. If you hold your breath for that long, maybe tomorrow morning the whole family and friends will come to your house
Sebenarnya ia tidak diikhtiraf sebagai sebuah negara pun. Sealand, is a smallest ‘country’ in the world, size half of the football pitch. It has its own government, currency, passport & even a soccer team with population 27 people. Actually is unrecognised as a country
https://sealandgov.org/en-as/pages/the-story
Nigel Richard, several times champions of the Scrabble Championship in French. He from New Zealand took 9 weeks to memorize all the French words without being able to speak the language he won
Mehran Karimi Nasseri living in Charles de Gaulle airport, France for 18 years since 1988 to 2006. A film titled The Terminal produced by Steven Spielberg bases of this true story and received $250,000 as inspiration for Dreamworks’ new film The Terminal but still sleeps on the plastic bench
Steven Spielberg menghasilkan filem ‘The Terminal’ dibintangi Tom Hanks berdasarkan kisah benar ini. Dia menerima 250,000 dolar dari Steven Spielberg sebagai ganjaran jalan cerita.
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Majalah Mastika
Garry Kasparov, Russian chess grandmaster, was the first player to win a chess game against computer
Usain Bolt, the world’s fastest man, records 100 meters = 9.58 seconds, 200 meters = 19.19 seconds. Estimated Olympic run time 115 seconds, 8 gold medals worth $119 million, average income more than $1 million per second (RM4.72 million/second) but for those 115 seconds, he trained himself for 20+ years.
Reference :
olympics.com
wikipedia
Read more :
https://olympics.com/en/news/usain-bolt-my-200m-world-record-will-be-broken-first-before-100m
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usain_Bolt
The longest interval between the birth of twin is 90 days in Baltimore, Maryland, USA to parents Lesa and David West on Jan 1 1996 (Molly) and 30 March 1996 (Benjamin)
Bayi pertama Molly adalah pramatang dan yang kedua ialan Benjamin
Reference :
Guinness World Records
Most of serial killers are born in November
August has the most birthday, February has the least
The longest straight road in the world is situated in Saudi Arabia, 1,116 km
Largest hotel in the world with 7,351 rooms, is First World Hotel is located in Genting Highlands Malaysia
Koba Superdeep Borehole reached 12,262 m in 1989, was expected to reach 15,000 m in 1993 but fail due to unexpected higher temperatur, 180°C in this depth location
Kebawah Duli Yang Maha Mulia Paduka Seri Baginda Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah , is the biggest car collector of the world with 7,000 cars
The longest tunnel in the world is 57km, it took 17 years to build in Switzerland, second Japan 53.85 and France/UK 50.43km
The Istana Nurul Iman is the official residence of the Sultan of Brunei , with 1,788 rooms ¹ , 257 bathroom. Hofburg Palace in Austria with 2,600 rooms
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¹Majalah Mastika
The longest road without an exit and entrance is 200km in the desert/desert in Death Valley National Park, California
In December 1963/January 1964, 17-years-old Gardner stayed awake for 11 days and 24 minutes
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