Author: Asia Book of Records Team

The largest flaming image using candles consisted of 35,478 candles and was achieved by 118 Sandoz employees (Pakistan) at the Hotel Serena in Faisalabad, Pakistan, on 10 December 2009. The completed image depicted the Sandoz logo and motto and had an area of 910.45 m² (9,800 ft²). It took the 118 participants 7 hours to draw the image, 1.5 hours to place the candles, and 42 minutes to light all of them.

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Jackie Chan (born Chan Kong-sang) from Hong Kong has done the most number of stunts. The 58 year-old actor made the first Police Story film in 1985, a US-influenced action comedy in which he  performed a number of dangerous stunts. It was named the “Best Film” at the 1986 Hong Kong Film Awards  

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Yogesh Barnela (born on November 22, 1982) of Bhiwani, Haryana, India, has made a spinning wheel measuring length 6 mm, width 7 mm, height 5.5 mm and weighs 60 milligrams, using matchstick, broomstick, steel wire, plastic wire, and thread, between March 8, 2012 and March 12, 2012. He took four days to create this spinning wheel.

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The Direct Methanol Fuel Cell made by the world leaders in fuel-cell technology for handheld electronic devices Toshiba Corporation and having dimensions 22 x 56 x 4.5mm (maximum of 9.1mm with fuel tank), is the smallest of its kind in the world. Designed for integration into devices as small as digital music players, Toshiba’s DMFC outputs 100 miliwatts of power, the prototype is efficient enough to power an MP3 music player for as long as 20 hours on a single 2cc charge of highly concentrated methanol

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Anish Kumar P (born on May 17, 1990) of Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu, India, has made a glass aquarium, measuring 22 mm wide, 16 mm high and 13 mm deep, consisting stones, plants and several small fishes, on January 17, 2012, at Nagercoil, Kanyakumari, India.

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