The Filipinos hold some weird Guinness World Records

[ASEAN NOW News]

Vulcan Point

 

One of the Philippines' geographical features, which is as interesting and unusual, as it is difficult to say correctly - the Largest Island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island.

 

Vulcan Point is a tiny island some 40m long, inside Crater Lake at the summit of the Taal volcano, itself within lake Taal, on the island of Luzon.

 

From a natural feature to a man-made spectacle, that of the most mentos and soda fountains. The minty sweets have a violent and foamy reaction when they meet diet sodas, leading to these fountains.

 

At this event at the SM Mall of Asia Complex in Manila, 2,865 such fountains were created simultaneously.

A different kind of mass explosion now, with the Most fireworks rockets launched in 30 seconds. 125,801 rockets were launched in Cebu in May 2010, from sixteen stacks of 8,000 rockets each - creating quite the display!

 

Next comes one of the very latest Filipino record breakers - Junrey Balawing was measured and confirmed to be the new shortest living man when he turned eighteen on 12 June.

 

Junrey was found to be just 59.93cm (23.5 inches) tall when measured six times over a day at the Sindangan Health Centre near his home.

 

 Ferdinand Marcos

 

Lastly, this is perhaps one of the most infamous records that a Filipino has held.

In 1986, the Guinness World Records named late dictator Ferdinand Marcos for the greatest robbery of a government.

 

GWR cited the Philippine government for identifying USD 860.8 million worth of stolen wealth.

 

The total national loss from November 1965 was believed to be $5–$10 billion,” the website read.

The page was taken down from the Guinness World Records website in March 2022.

 

According to a statement from Guinness World Records on Twitter, they are reviewing the title and re-examining records to ensure they are up to date and accurate.

 

They are also checking if the record has been broken or not.

 

The organization also emphasized that this move to review was their decision alone and that they “do not dispute this record as a historical fact, nor are we disputing that we monitored the record title and published it in our books and online.”

 

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