Most Kinder Egg Surprises

The record for most Kinder Egg Surprise toys is 52, 514, owned by Martin Parsley of Norwich. Asked about his collection, he said, “I started collecting them in 1984, but the funny thing is, it wasn’t until 1991 that I realised there were toys in the little yellow thingies, so you can imagine my surprise!”

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Longest Goal Celebration

The longest ever goal celebration lasted 3 months. In the final match of the season between the Spanish local league clubs San Leppe and El Porcos on the 15^th June 1982, Porcos midfielder Salvatore Despuidas scored an injury-time winner, helping his club avoid relegation. Removing his shirt, he ran screaming off the pitch, straight down the road to a Carmelite monastery, where he took a vow of silence and became a monk. It was assumed that he’d left the club, but, during a training session before El Porcos’ first match of the next season, Despuidas appeared, running, screaming onto the pitch, wearing the same kit he’d worn on the 15^th of June, and took a place on the substitutes bench. When his story made the local paper he told the interviewer, 

“I promised myself that if I scored I would have a very special celebration. This came to me in a flash, and although I maybe regretted it at a couple of points, I felt I had to see it through.”

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Longest-held swear word

The longest-held swear word was a 92 second “knob”, uttered by Scottish radio phone-in host Alex MacClaxon, on his show, Claxon Sounds Off, on 23^rd November 2003. Many listeners protested that the drawn-out swear word could only have been produced with the aid of studio trickery, but the Scottish MP he was interviewing at the time testified to its authenticity.

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