Author: Asia Book of Records Team

Setty Jaswanth Sunhith (born on July 21, 1999) of Andhra Pradesh, India, set a record for being the fastest to solve a 9×9 Sudoku puzzle orally blindfolded. He solved a 9 x 9 Sudoku puzzle orally in 6 minutes, 31 seconds and 39 milliseconds while being blindfolded, as confirmed on February 2, 2023.

GreenCell Express Private Limited, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India set the record for the India’s First Ever All-Woman Electric Intercity Bus. The NueGo Electric Bus piloted by a woman driver and women crew started its journey from the Kashmere Gate ISBT Delhi on May 16, 2023 at 11.56 AM and reached Agra at 17.45 PM. There were 28 women passengers who travelled on this bus which was a unique feature as confirmed on May 17, 2023.

Shree Siddhi Vinayak Devasthan, Mahemdavad, Gujarat, India set a record for being the largest temple in the shape of Lord Ganesha. The temple was constructed between 2010 to 2014 and features the face of Lord Ganesha measuring 120.98 feet in length, 84.25 feet in breadth, and a height of 71 feet (including an 8 feet shikhar height). This spiritual grand temple attracts numerous devotees every day from India and abroad, as confirmed on June 4, 2023.

A group of researchers working on the research vessel DSSV Pressure Drop (now named Dagon) set a record by spotting and filming the deepest-dwelling fish beneath the ocean’s surface near Japan. The extremely small white snailfish was swimming at an unbelievable depth of 27,349 feet (8,336 meters, or 5.1 miles), as confirmed on May 16, 2023.

A team of mechanical engineers from Columbia University, USA set a record by making the first 3D-printed cheesecake made of edible ink. It took about 30 minutes to cook one slice of cheesecake, as confirmed on May 16, 2023.

Joseph Pujol of France, set a record by being the greatest fartomaniac. Pujol could eject a stream of water from his anus stretching 16 feet. By 1892, he started performing his farting skills at the Moulin Rouge where his farts became sort of cannon fire and thunderstorms, blowing out candles from many feet away, ejecting smoke from his rear, and his ability to play the ocarina using tubes tied to his anus, as confirmed on May 16, 2023

The Australian startup Vow, set a record of being the first company to create a meatball made of extinct woolly mammoth meat in a lab. They cultivated meat using the pachyderm’s cells taken from an African elephant, which is the mammoth’s closest living relative. This material was injected into a sheep cell which multiplied, and grew large enough to make a giant meatball between the size of a softball and volleyball, as confirmed on May 16, 2023.

Lions Befrienders Service Association of Singapore set a record for making the largest word formation from origami cranes. A total of 50 senior citizens  folded paper cranes over 14 sessions and then pasted on boards to create a word formation measuring 6 m x 1.8 m in size for their National Day celebration, as confirmed on May 16, 2023.

Teo Sau Yang of Singapore, set a record for doing maximum push-ups in one minute. He is an ex-commando of National Service of Singapore. He performed 120 push-ups in one minute outside Cuba Libre, Clarke Quay, Singapore, at the age of 22 years, as confirmed on May 16, 2023.

Students of Westwood Primary School of Singapore, set a record for organising the largest exhibition of handmade Kokedama on the eve of their National Day.  A total of 1,672 balls of  soil and moss were tied with strings around the roots of young plants and arranged to form the school logo with the words ’10 years’, as confirmed on May 16, 2023.