Peter Wilson

Peter Wilson watched all 123 episodes of LOSTby himself in 145 hours. He began watching the first episode on May 18th, 2010 at 10:30 PM and completed the series finale on May 23 at 11:30 PM. He live streamed[] the entire record, attracting thousands of viewers throughout.

Wilson set the record to raise money and awareness for the Child’s Play[] organization.

Read Peter’s LOST Marathon blog about the project here.

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Darryl Learie

Darryl Learie received an anonymous $35 donation to his non-commercial YouTube channel.

Beam Camp

Attendees of the Inventgenuity Festival created a money chain made up of $436.32. The money was then donated to the International Rescue Committee[].

The record was set on February 21, 2010 at the 2nd Annual Brooklyn World Record Day, an event hosted by RecordSetter in conjunction with Beam Camp as part of their Inventgenuity Festival.

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Lavallette Elementary School

A group of 210 Lavallette Elementary Schoolstudents wore jellyfish hats at at once. They set the world record to raise environmental awareness forBarnegat Bay.

See more about the event here.

Kiva New York

At a Kiva event celebrating International Women’s Day, 54 people lined up and set a new world record for the Longest Charity Waterfall. Record participants included Kiva CEO Matt Flannery, president Premal Shah and Director of Development Bennett Grassano, who conceived the feat.

Attendees lined up and donated at least $1 to a pile of money that was passed along the line in a waterfall manner, raising $175 in less than a minute. The money was instantly processed as a Kiva microfinancing loan.

Steven Gaul

Steven Gaul played the drums for 121 hours (7,260 minutes). Gaul set this record to raise money for cancer research.

Read more about the event here.

Polo America

Polo America played a polo game at Stormbranch Equestrian Club that lasted for 32 chukkers. (Each chukker is seven minutes in length.) 52 players and 200 horses played from 8:00am until after 4:00pm.

The Dawn to Dusk Chukker Challenge was a benefit for the Wounded Warriors[]at Fort Gordon.

List of participants:
Leo Benjamin
Peter Bibeau
Lydia Bibeau
Shea Brooks
Dawn Brown
Dori Burner
Heather Careberry
Christine Cato
Ed Connelly
Fiona Eagle
Kate Echeverria
Jenny Elkus
Luis Escobar
Tony Fonseca
Rodney Fragodt
Carlitos Galindo
Carlos Galindo
Melissa Ganzi
John Gobin
Charlie Hutchinson
Charlie Hutchinson II
Nicholas Jenks
Brandon Kircher
Jack Kousins
Lucas Lalor
Brien Limehouse
Barry Limehouse
Eliza Limehouse
Chip Limehouse
Alex Lopez
Kirsten Ludwig
Nanc Mark
Alan Martinez
Collin McCosh
Francisco Medrano
Clint Nangle
Marcos Onetto
Neil Osburg
Barbara Parker
Tess Pimsner
Karen Reese
Owen Rinehart
Arshia Rios
Jose Rodriguez
Randy Russell
Chris Shelli
Adam Snow
Bob Stanton
Tom Thayer
Kegan Walsh
Paul Wheaton
John Whittemore

Photo credit: Ben Baugh

Clark Harris

Clark Harris has used social media as his only form of communication for the past 100 days. He’s setting the record to raise awareness and money for The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, in memory of his mother.

Read more about his experiment and donatehere.

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George Pettit

Greg Pettit put on 223 articles of clothing at once, drove them to a Salvation Army clothing bank in his Ford Fusion, removed them one by one and donated them to the bank.

Petit set the record as part of Fusion 41, a URDB World Record Challenge created by the Ford Motor Company.

Run for Good Foundation

As part of a charity initiative, 53 indie music artists signed a single Saucony sneaker. The contributors came from 20 bands different bands who performed at the 2009 Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago, Illinois, including Yo La Tengo, The National and The Walkmen[].

The shoe will be auctioned off on MissionFish.org, with all proceeds going to Saucony’s Run for Good Foundation, a non-profit organization committed to combating childhood obesity.

Artists include:

The Jesus Lizard
Yo La Tengo
The National
Black Lips
Yeasayer
The Dutchess and the Duke
Ponytail
Bowerbirds
Pains of Being Pure at Heart
The Antlers
Fucked Up
M83
The Walkmen
Women
Pharoahe Monch
Killer Whales
Blitzen Trapper
Frightened Rabbit
Michael Columbia
Cymbals Eat Guitars

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Mr. S.

Mr. S. started following more than 100 celebrities on Twitter, all of whom have verified accounts. He sent each one a tweet on his July 14th birthday, requesting a birthday wish.

Mr. S. mentioned in an attached link that for each wish he received he would donate $2.00 to the Norwalk Public Library in Connecticut. Eleven verified celebrities responded to his request in 24 hours. Instead of donating $22, Mr. S. kindly donated $200.

Edwin Escobar

Edwin Escobar visited San Jose in Costa Rica, Managua in Nicaragua, Tegucigalpa in Honduras, San Salvador in El Salvador and Guatemala City in Guatemala. He traveled to each city on his motorcycle, a total distance of 1,400 kilometers across Central America.

Escobar performed this feat to raise funds to help overcome malnutrition of Salvadorean children.

Melissa Ganzi

Melissa Ganzi played 30 consecutive chukkers, a new world record. A standard polo game is six chukkers.

The Dawn to Dusk Chukker Challenge was a benefit for the Wounded Warriors[]at Fort Gordon.

Mike Squier

Mike Squier ate 15 commercial dog biscuits in five minutes. The biscuits came from the Organic Doggy Kitchen and he was setting the record to raise funds for Save Our Siberians - Siberspace Rescue Fund.

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Frank McKinney

Frank McKinney designed and built a certified green mansion valued at $29 million dollars (U.S.). The house has a Silver LEED rating from the U.S Green Building Council, a Certified Florida Green Home rating from the Florida Green Building Coalition, and meets the Energy Star for Homes criteria established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency[].

The house includes an innovative use of solar, water, and materials. Super energy efficient appliances cut down on electrical consumption by nearly 60%.

On certain days the home will be energy neutral, and can generate enough electricity to run two average-sized homes. The house used enough reclaimed and renewable wood to save over 10.5 acres of rain forest.

A system that collects runoff water from the cedar roof fills the water garden. The system collects enough reusable water to fill the average size swimming pool every 17 days.

McKinney donated money from the sale of the house to the Crush It Charity[], which builds houses and self-sufficient villages in Haiti.

Read more about the house here.