Bay Area Residents Break Guinness World Record In 2020

San Mateo CA

24 December, 2020

4:00 AM

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SAN MATEO, CA — It's time once again to see which crazy Californians worked to earn Guinness World Records in 2020. What do you think of when you have to stay home for several months? Perhaps the most toilet paper hoarded in a single household? Or how about the person who has sneezed the most, or the least, in an entire year? The Guinness World Records remains the gold standard for measuring feats of strength, endurance, and the out of this world odd. In 2020, many Guinness World Records were held or were broken by Californians, according to the Guinness World Records. Here are some of California's new additions that made this coronavirus shutdown year a little bit more bearable. In San Mateo: Record for Most People Chanting Online Simultaneously: Pt. Viswam Ji, Sanatha Hindu Dharma International Vedic Awareness, in San Mateo, California. Is there a more perfect 2020 Guinness Record? A group of 164 people participated in the online chant on August 3, 2020. The group began their ritualistic SHIVA chants over Zoom calls during the coronavirus pandemic. Participants spanned the Bay Area, and the chanting was related to "health, world peace, and prosperity." Record For the Oldest Living Tree : The Methuselah Bristlecone Pine, White Mountains of California The Bristlecone Pines still hold the record for the world's oldest living tree. Dated in 1957, the trees you can see in California's White Mountains are 4,852 years old as of 2020. Another older tree in the same forest was dated at 5,070 years old, and has been verified as the oldest living tree in the world, thanks to the University of Arizona Tree-Ring Research laboratory. The forest is located in the eastern Sierra Nevada mountains. World Record For Fastest Time To Crawl A Mile (Female): Laura D'Asaro, San Francisco, California. In June of 2020, D'Asaro spent 21 minutes and 36 seconds of her life crawling to achieve this world record. She first attempted the record at the age of 17. Ten years later, the global pandemic seemed like the best time to focus on achieving her goal. According to the Guinness Record book, she trained for three months and invited a handful of witnesses and friends to a public track in San Francisco to cheer her on. Across California, more records were broken in 2020. Here are Patch's Top 20: Read: 20 California Guinness World Records Broken In 2020