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Connecticut company creates world's smallest advertisement

By Ben Hooper
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Oct. 18 (UPI) -- A Connecticut manufacturing company broke a Guinness World Record by creating an advertisement smaller than the width of a human hair.

ASML announced it broke the record for the world's smallest advertisement by creating an ad that measures 22.37 micrometers by 7.76 micrometers and sports a surface area of 28 micrometers.

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An average human hair measures about 75 micrometers wide.

"To truly go small you have to think big #smallest_ad ASML," the ad reads.

The ad broke the previous record for smallest advertisement, a 735-micrometer advertisement printed on a sesame seed by fast food chain Arby's in June.

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