Jaw-dropping additions to the Singapore Book of Records in September 2023
A new record was set at Admiralty Mid-Autumn PAssionArts Festival on Sept 30 for the longest hand-painted lantern chain created.
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PUBLISHED ONOctober 09, 2023 5:58 AMByJanelle Yong
On Sept 30, 2023, a new record was set in the Singapore Book of Records for the longest hand-painted lantern chain created.
Through the efforts of over 1,000 residents and other community partners, a total of 1,888 lanterns were hand-painted and arranged into a long dragon of over 500m at the Admiralty Mid-Autumn PAssionArts Festival.
Singapore is no stranger to unusual record-breaking feats. Here are a few more that just made history this past September:
Sept 25, 2023: Youngest to recall more than 700 Digits of Phi
11-year-old Karthick Prasanna from Yuvabharathi International School managed to recite a whopping 777 digits of Phi (an irrational number with infinite digits, not to be confused with Pi), also known as the Golden Ratio.
Sept 23, 2023: Largest Flower Carpet
It took 200 hours of labour from 300 people using 100,000 potted plants and 20,000 cut flowers to create this gargantuan beauty.
Spanning 34.2m in diameter, the medley of colourful blooms formed a circular, batik-inspired pattern honouring our national flower, the Papilionanthe Miss Joaquim.
Sept 22, 2023: Largest collage made of Chinese brushwork
Did you know that brushwork and calligraphy are part of the curriculum for Primary 1 to 5 students of Pei Hwa Presbyterian Primary School?
For this record, students did brush paintings and wrote the school's values in calligraphy. Selected pieces were put together to form a 2.8m-by-10.5m collage, which was unveiled on Sept 22.
Sept 10, 2023: Largest display of pet lick art
Over two weekends, The Star Vista ran an interesting pet-related exhibition named 'A Space Pawdyssey'. One of the highlights of the event was the creation of pet lick art.
What's pet lick art, you ask? Simply put, treats were placed on ziplock bags containing canvases drizzled with globs of paint. When the furry artists licked off the treats, they would spread the paint in the canvas, creating unique works of art.
A total of 176 masterpieces were displayed on the last day of the exhibition (Sept 10).
Sept 5, 2023: Most digits of square root of 12 recalled
Last but not least, yet another memory-related record. This time, the record was set by six years and 11 months old Stanley Liu Jia Fan, a Primary One student from Tao Nan School.
This young mathematician wrote down 666 digits of the square root of 12, an irrational number with endless decimals.
This article was first published in Wonderwall.sg.
