The manager of Guinness started the Guinness Book of World Records when he got annoyed that he couldn’t find out what the fastest game bird was ever recorded.
100 Mind-Blowing Fastest Facts
Sonic the Hedgehog is in the Guinness Book of World Records for being the fastest gaming character ever.
The fastest animal is a cheetah.
The bamboo plant is the fastest-growing woody plant in the world. They can grow up to 35 inches per day.
The fastest man in the world is not physically perfect. Usain Bolt suffers from scoliosis. However, he states that as long as he continues to keep his core and back strong, it does not bother him much.
The human tongue heals the fastest compared to all body parts. This is due to the rich supply of blood that circulates the tongue. It may also be because the mouth is constantly replenishing your taste buds.
Venus Williams hit the fastest serve in women’s tennis at 205 km/h. If you’re having trouble picturing how fast that is, the maximum speed recorded by a person running is 45km/h.
It took Rubik a month to solve his cube. With 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible combinations, who could blame him? Aside from the irony, what puts this in funny facts is how the current record-holder for the fastest time to solve a Rubik’s cube finished it in 4.22 seconds.
The world record for the fastest drinking of a bottle of ketchup is less than half a minute long. On September 7, 2017, Dinesh Shivnath Upadhyaya (IND) finished a 500-g bottle of ketchup in 25.37 seconds.
The fastest pizza eater finished a 12-inch in less than half a minute. Kelvin Medina of the Philippines finished a whole pizza in 23.62 seconds on April 12, 2015.
The thumbnail grows the slowest, the middle nail the fastest, nearly 4 times faster than toenails. Fingernails grow about 3.5 millimeters per month while toenails grow 1.6 mm on average.
In the history of boxing, four men have been knocked out within the first eleven seconds of the match. The fastest knockout was from a 1947 match between Mike Collins and Pat Brownson. Collins was able to knock Brownson out with the first punch only 4 seconds after the first bell.
President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.
Henry Ford produced the Model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.
The fastest goal in World Cup history was scored by Hakan Sukur of Turkey after just 10.8 seconds in 2002.
The sun looks super close but it would take 70,000 years in our fastest spaceship to reach it.
Sean Wrona, a left-handed typist, set the record for the fastest typing speed on a keyboard, typing at a staggering 256 words per minute.
Greyhounds are the world’s fastest dogs with the ability to reach up to 45 mph.
But a cough is faster (60 mph) and a sneeze is fastest of all (over 100 mph).
Jupiter is the fastest-spinning planet in the solar system (it only takes about 10 hours to complete a full rotation on its axis).
The fastest recorded raindrop was 18 mph!
Jupiter is the fastest-spinning planet in the solar system.
The fastest insect on Earth is the Australian tiger beetle, Cicindela hudsoni. Clocking in at 5.6 mph, this incredible insect runs so fast, it has to slow down to see anything.
The middle finger has the fastest-growing nail.
The beard has the fastest-growing hair on the human body.
Bamboo is the world’s fastest-growing plant. One species can grow up to 35 inches in a day.
There’s a world record for the holder of the most world records: Ashrita Furman, who’s set more than 600 records and currently holds more than 200. His records have ranged from the fastest mile on a pogo stick, the longest time to hula hoop underwater and the greatest distance travelled on a bicycle balancing a milk bottle on the head.
Japan has the fastest Internet speed of 319 terabits per second. This Internet speed is speedy enough to download approximately 80,000 movies per second. The engineers used fibre-optic cables to make this world-breaking record possible.
Computer programming is currently one of the fastest-growing professions in the technology industry.
Linux dominates supercomputers. As of 2018 100% of the world’s 500 fastest supercomputers run Linux. Impressive!
One of the fastest supercomputers runs the Chinese version of Ubuntu. Moreover, Linux runs on 100% of the top 500 fastest supercomputers.
The Chinese version of Ubuntu is used for running the world’s fastest supercomputer.
Tourism Triumph: Tourism, the UK’s fastest-growing sector, is predicted to be worth £257 billion by 2025.
The first video to reach one billion views the fastest was Hello by Adele. It reached one billion views in just 88 days.