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Mountain lacemakers set new record for ‘world’s largest’ lace doily

Measuring 5.32 metres in diameter, with a surface area of 22.2 square metres and requiring 61 kilometres of thread and fourth months to make, the giant doily beat the previous world record of 5m diameter. Michal_fotkuje

Measuring 5.32 metres in diameter, with a surface area of 22.2 square metres and requiring 61 kilometres of thread and fourth months to make, the giant doily is larger than the world record of 5m in diameter set in 2013.

Warsaw restaurant breaks world record for tallest ever pancake tower

Taking 90 minutes to prepare the base after a wobbly table threatened to derail the whole attempt, it then took the Mr. Pancake team over two hours to carefully stack the 166 sponge disks to reach a whopping 102.4cm.

‘It was hell’, says Elbląg star after smashing quintuple iron man world record

Robert Karaś, 33, achieved his feat in Mexico this week with the record setting time of 67 hours 58 minutes and 1 second, beating the previous record by a staggering 4 hours and 41 minutes.

Aleksandra Miroslaw sets world record at sport climbing in Tokyo

Polish sport climber Aleksandra Miroslaw set a new world record at the Tokyo Olympics on Friday and leads in the discipline.

Against all Odds! Dolny Śląsk lockdown athlete breaks Ironman world record from home

Following the death of his grandfather, Robert Wilkowiecki rebounded by not only smashing the Ironman world record set just weeks earlier by German superstar Jan Frodeno, but also by becoming the first Pole to complete a triathlon in under eight hours.

Blockbuster! Lego Notre Dame smashes world record

Measuring 2.73 metres in height, 3.7 metres in length and 142 centimetres in width, the blockbusting marvel weighs 250kg and took over 400,000 Lego bricks and 500 hours to build.

Trike power motoring altitude record broken as Ełk pilot goes six kilometres high

Record falls despite equipment freezing up, fuel running out and atmospheric conditions that forced the fragile aircraft down.

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Posting on Twitter, the Ministry of Infrastructure said: “The first signs are already leading to Królewiec. We have just started replacing the boards so that they have Polish name Królewiec, not Kaliningrad.

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Warsaw’s secret war against Moscow’s spies: Poland’s intelligence services have gone into overdrive to combat Putin’s covert assault

The arrest last week of a ‘dangerous’ spy network in Poland is the latest in the country’s secret war against Russian intelligence since Putin’s troops attacked Ukraine.

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