Author: Asia Book of Records Team

The University of Santo Tomas is the largest Catholic university in the world in a single campus. The institution was established by the initiative of Bishop Miguel de Benavides, the third Archbishop of Manila. The original campus was located in Intramuros, the Walled City of Manila, and was formerly called Colegio de Nuestra Señora del Santisimo Rosario. Later, it was renamed as Colegio de Santo Tomas, in memory of the foremost Dominican Theologian, St. Thomas Aquinas.

Waratte Iitomo of Fuji Television Network Inc.’s (Japan) is the longest running live TV show in terms of episodes. The show began on October 4, 1982 and reached its 7,000th episode on February 4, 2010.  

The oldest known shipwreck on Earth is 3,400 years old trading cargo, found and excavated in Uluburun near Kas, in the Mediterranean region of Turkey. It belonged to the Late Bronze Age (a period roughly between 1600-1050 B.C.) — an era symbolised by the rule of Egypt’s Tutankhamen and the fall of Troy.

Thanawat Thirapongpaiboon (Thailand) scored the maximum break at the age of 16 years and 312 days, at the Euro Players’ Tour Championship in Rüsselsheim, Germany, on October 22, 2010.

The world’s longest dosa measures 48.25 ft and was made by renowned chef Damoranan (also known as Damu) and his team members in Madurai. The event was held to raise funds to support the Government schools and the orphanages.

The students of Astronomy Club, IIT Kanpur, India, created an in-house student’s planetarium measuring 24 feet in width, having a capacity of 50 people and consists of a dome with 61 connection cubes and 160 connection rods which were PVC pipes and local cloth used for mirror projection system which was modeled inside the Astronomy Club room, within a duration of 1 year, and was inaugurated by Manindra Agarwal, Dean of Resources, Planning and Generation, IIT Kanpur (India).

Brothers Amit Agrawal (born on June 12, 1983) and Pavan Agarwal (born on February 13, 1988) of Ahmedabad, India, have different colored eyes by birth. Pavan has a blue right-eye and brown left-eye exactly opposite to Amit who has brown left-eye and blue right-eye.

WORLD’S BIGGEST BUDDHIST MONUMENT Borobudur, a ninth-century Mahayana Buddhist monument in Magelang, Central Java, in Indonesia, is the world’s biggest Buddhist monument. The monument comprises of six square platforms, topped by three circular platforms, and is decorated with 2,672 relief panels and 504 Buddha statues. The main dome, located at the centre of the top platform, is surrounded by 72 Buddha statues, seated inside perforated stupa (meaning: a mound-like structure).

MOST WINE GLASSES HELD IN ONE HAND The most wine glasses held in one hand (without using equipment of any kind) is 39, by Reymond Adina (Philippines), on October 24, 2007, at the Quatre-Cats restaurant, in Barcelona, Spain.

Mukesh Thapa (born on March 29, 1979) of Himachal Pradesh, India, has drawn more than 600 paintings by using one hair of his beard. He used his hair as a brush in creating the paintings and also have exhibited them in many places (all in India).