The cardboard holder that you often get around a takeaway cup of coffee is called a “zarf.”
100 Mind-Blowing Holder Facts
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.
There’s a sport for making weird faces. A gurn or chuck is a particularly funny facial expression. The typical “gurn” involves protruding the lower jaw as forward as possible, completely covering the upper lip with the lower lip. Anne Woods of the U.K. has won 27 gurning championships from 1977-2010, which makes her the record-holder for the most gurning world championships won.
The longest fingernails ever were over 42 feet in total and belonged to American Diana Armstrong, recognised as the new record holder in March 2022. The previous record was held by American Lee Redmond, with fingernails over 28 feet in total.
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.
Record-breaking vaccine. The record for a vaccine to be developed and licensed was four years. The record holder was the mumps vaccine which was licensed in 1967. Following the UK government’s approval of the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19 in early December 2020, that record is now just under 11 months.