More than 2,000 people had pledged more than £150,000, compared to a previous record of £10,000, the organisation said.
Using those observations, it built up a predictive model of where it expected the next piece to be played, given knowledge of the board and all previous positions, that could accurately guess the next move of an expert player 57% of the time (compared to a previous record of 44.4% from other groups).
The new collisions are at a higher energy - 13 TeV¹ compared to the previous record of 8 TeV.
Hedge funds and other "non-commercial" speculators have increased their long positions to an all-time high of 555,000 of the main oil contracts traded on the New York futures market, compared to the previous record of 548,000 contracts, set just before the oil price peaked at $120 in June 2014.
Last year Arctic ice shrank by 18% compared to the previous record low of 2007, according to the official US monitoring organisation, the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado.
April 2011 was the most active tornado month on record, with 753, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAAA), compared to the previous record of 267 in April 1974.
Kelefa Sanneh of The New York Times said Spears became a spectral presence in her own album, explaining that when compared to her previous records, "[she] cuts a startlingly low profile on Blackout Even when she was being marketed as a clean-cut ex-Mouseketeer, and even when she was touring the country with a microphone that functioned largely as a prop, something about her was intense".
In 2011 states passed 92 restrictions on abortion services, compared with a previous record of 34 such laws in 2005, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a pro-choice think-tank.
When there are 16 candidates, compared with a previous record of 12 in the 1974 election, when getting on for two-fifths of the voters say they will decide only at the last minute and when quite a few people probably lie anyway (not everyone admits to being a neo-fascist in a door-step interview), sounding out opinions can hardly be an exact science.
This compares to the previous record of 456 Tweets per second when Michael Jackson died on June 25 , 2009
Indestructible took the longest amount of time to title when compared to Disturbed's previous records, according to Wengren.
