Guinness World Records declared on Monday that Pepper X has won the title of world's “hottest chilli pepper”.According to testing conducted by Winthrop University in South Carolina, this new pepper averages 2.69 million Scoville Heat Units (SHU), surpassing the previous record-holder, Carolina Reaper, which averages 1.64 million SHU, according to Guinness World Records, reports CNN. Also read: Dhaka Clean-up Campaign hits Guinness World RecordAmerican scientist Wilbur Scoville created the SHU scale to gauge the spiciness of chilli peppers in 1912, it said.According to Guinness, the typical jalapeno pepper has a SHU rating between 3,000 and 8,000. Also read: 64- year-old FF sets Guinness World Record swimming 186 kmsEd Currie, the owner of the Puckerbutt Pepper Company in South Carolina, cultivates Pepper X. The Carolina Reaper, which broke the record in 2013, was also a creation of his, the report said.“Ed cultivated Pepper X on his farm for over 10 years, cross-breeding it with some of his hottest peppers to increase its capsaicin content,” Guinness said on its website. Also read: Thakurgaon youth jumps rope to enter Guinness BookCurrie unveiled Pepper X to the public for the first time on an episode of the popular YouTube series, “Hot Ones.”There is currently no information on how a pepper that has 1 million more Scoville units than the Reaper will be characterised.

The harvesting festival of Guinness World Records winning crop field mosaic honouring Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Bangladesh was inaugurated at the Balenda village of Vabanipur union under Sherpur upazilla of Bagura on Monday.  National AgriCare Import and Export LTD provided the logistics and financial support for this project from its beginning. Convener of the national committee of the project and Awami League joint general secretary Krishibid AFM Bahauddin Nasim inaugurated the  Crop field mosaic honouring Bangabandhu while advisor of the national committee of the project and Awami League presidium member Jahangir Kabir Nanak was present as chief guest. Awami League organizing secretary S. M Kamal Hossain, Awami League office secretary and special assistant to the Prime Minister Barrister Biplob Barua and Krishka League president Krishibid Sameer Chanda also took part in the harvesting festival. Also read: Artwork on Bangabandhu, Filipino National Hero unveiled in Manila 130-140 women workers worked every day  from January 29 to February 20 and they were accompanied by 15 to 20 male workers every day while land was leased from local farmers for this this project. The area of Bangabandhu' portrait was 12 lakh 92 thousand square feet while the length of the grain painting was 400 meters and the width was 300 meters. Also read: Bangabandhu, 4 national leaders remembered in Ottawa with profound respect   'Bangabandhu in crop fileld' has created a new history for Bangladesh by getting a place in the Guinness Book of World Records.The exhibition "Shassachitra Bangabandhu'  also achieved the Guinness World Records on March 16 just before the birthday of Bangabandhu  this year. Every day hundreds of people used to flock to the project area to see the portrait of Bangabandhu in the crop field Also read: Bangabandhu Bangladesh Games to continue until govt order comes: BOA Secy Gen According to the Guinness World Records' website, the largest crop field mosaic (image) is 119,430.273 m² (1,285,536.75 ft²) and was achieved by AFM Bahauddin Nasim and KSM Mostafizur Rahman in an attempt organised by National AgriCare Import and Export LTD (all Bangladesh) in Bangladesh while earlier the record was held by Shanghai Lezhidao Tourism Development Company of China after it made a croanning 79,505.19 square metres in 2019.

Sir David Attenborough, the legendary English broadcaster and natural historian, became the fastest person ever to bag a million followers on social media platform Instagram.

A Japanese man who received his certificate as the world's oldest man with a raised fist and big smiles earlier this month has died at 112.