Harvard students are high achievers in all walks (or, more aptly, crawls) of life. In order to showcase our community’s more bizarre achievements, FM has compiled a list of the Guinness World Record holders on campus:
1. Fastest mile while crawling (22 minutes and four seconds) – Laura E. D’Asaro '13
2. Fastest marathon while juggling three objects (2:58:23), fastest mile on a unicycle (3:26:22), fastest mile on a unicycle while juggling (3:50:63) – Zach J. Warren, Harvard Divinity School '07
3. Largest box fort (568 cardboard boxes) – Laura E. D’Asaro '13 and members of Kirkland house
4. Longest phone conversation (46:12:25) – Eric R. Brewster '14 and Avery A. Leonard '14
5. Most simultaneous fist bumps (404 individuals) – 2010 Harvard Relay for Life participants
6. Longest sustained game of basketball (72 hours) – Zack E. Wortman '14
7. First patented animal (OncoMouse) – Philip Leder '56 and Timothy A. Steward, Harvard researchers
8. Most likes on a Facebook post (1,045,272 likes) – Mark E. Zuckerberg
9. Youngest Billionaire – Mark E. Zuckerberg
10. Wealthiest University – Harvard