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RAD Event Planners set a record for organising an online cooking contest for children. They organised an online cooking contest Lil Chef’s Hat for children between the age group of 4 years and 12 years. In this contest, 73 children took part and prepared tempting and delicious food and beverages, as confirmed on July 25, 2020.

Haris Balaji (born on November 4, 2006) of Tamil Nadu, India, set a record for playing the drums blindfolded for the longest duration. He continuously played the drums for 27 minutes and 33 seconds while being blindfolded at the age of 15 years, 5 months and 4 days, as confirmed on April 17, 2022.

Following its theatrical re-release in China, James Cameron’s Avatar broke an IMAX world record previously held by Avengers: Endgame.BY KEEGAN PROSSER PUBLISHEDAvatar broke another box-office record held by Avengers: Endgame.Following Avatar’s theatrical re-release in China this weekend, the James Cameron film brought in $6.2 million on IMAX screens, which brought Avatar’s IMAX lifetime box office earnings to $249.5 million. Avatar now reigns as “the highest-grossing IMAX film of all time,” surpassing a record previously held by Avengers: Endgame, according to IMAX. Avatar producer Gitesh Pandya broke the good news on Twitter, writing, “#Avatar re-released in China this wknd and grossed about $20M with a hefty 30% coming from IMAX scrns. It…

World steeplechase record-holder sets another global mark with 14:43 at the Monaco Run, while Joshua Cheptegei clocks 13:14Posted by Jessica Whittington | Feb 14, 2021 |mark to 14:43. Racing in sunny, cool and blustery conditions, the Kenyan shaved one second from Sifan Hassan’s outright official world record also set in Monaco in a women-only race in 2019.Chepkoech was paced by Netherlands’ Luuk Maas and the previous record in a mixed gender race was Caroline Kipkirui’s 14:48 set in 2018. The road 5km became an official world record event in 2017.“It was so good,” said Chepkoech, who ran 8:44.32 to break the world 3000m steeplechase…

ABC Radio Darwin  / By Conor ByrneTahnee Afuhaamango stepped out of the pool and went home, not realising until later how fast she had actually swum.Key points:Tahnee Afuhaamango leaves a swimming event without realising she has set a world recordHer family quickly arranges for all the paperwork to be completed before it is too lateThe international Down syndrome swimming authority has just confirmed the new recordThe swimming sensation finished the 200m freestyle event in a local competition and then went home to Jingili in Darwin’s northern suburbs for a break.When she returned to Parap pool that afternoon for the rest of the competition,…

The single-unit Grohnde nuclear power plant in Germany has produced more than 400 terawatt hours of electricity since it started up in 1984 – the only reactor to have achieved this milestone. Meanwhile, unit 1 of Canada’s Darlington nuclear power plant has set a new world record with 1106 consecutive days of continuous operation.The 1360 MWe German pressurised water reactor reached the production milestone at 11.00pm on 7 February, PreussenElektra announced today.Grohnde was first synchronised to the grid on 5 September 1984. It has since been the leading reactor in terms of annual power generation a total of eight times…

Atreyee Ghosh (born on February 18, 2017) of West Bengal, India, set a record for reciting the English alphabet in reverse order (from Z to A) the maximum number of times in 30 seconds. She recited the English alphabet 6 times in reverse order in 30 seconds, at the age of 5 years, 2 months and 29 days, as confirmed on May 17, 2022.

Anagha T. S. (born on January 16, 1996) of Kerala, India, set a record for singing the maximum number of devotional songs in multiple languages. She sang 100 devotional songs in five different languages, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, Sanskrit and Telugu in 11 minutes, as confirmed on May 14, 2022.

By Ben Hooper March 3 (UPI) — A passenger plane in Sudan turned back 30 minutes into the flight and made an emergency landing when a stray cat stowaway caused a ruckus in the cockpit. The Tarco flight from Khartoum to Doha turned back after about 30 minutes and made an emergency landing in Khartoum after the cat emerged in the cockpit of the Boeing 737 and attacked the pilot. The crew attempted to capture the feline, but the flight turned around when they found themselves unable to wrangle the stowaway. Officials said the plane had been parked for cleaning overnight before the flight and the…

March 9 (UPI) — A snake breeder who accidentally bred a ball python with the shape of three smiley face emojis on its body said he sold the designer reptile for $6,000. Justin Kobylka, who has been breeding snakes for two decades, said he was attempting to breed ball pythons for the color combination of bright golden yellow and white when he ended up hatching a snake with three yellow smiley faces on its scales. The breeder said the snake was born after about eight years of working to breed pythons for the color combination. Kobylka said he estimates about one in 20 of the snakes he…