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A Maryland woman said memories of her mother led to her winning $50,000 from a Pick 5 lottery drawing. The Frederick County woman told Maryland Lottery officials the ticket she bought for the April 29 drawing at Carroll Fuel in Damascus bore a set of numbers that are close to her heart. I’ve been thinking about my mom […]
A high-flying Texas cat earned a Guinness World Record by leaping a distance of 8 feet and 5 inches. Oscar, a 7-year-old cat belonging to Dallas man Theodore Shiells, officially took the Guinness World Records title for the longest jump by a cat. Shiells said Oscar started out with tricks like sitting, begging and fetching, and […]
A Kentucky woman said her young son was playing with her phone during the weekend and secretly placed an Amazon order for 70,000 Dum-Dum lollipops — a total purchase of about $4,200. Lexington resident Holly LaFavers said on social media that she was shocked to discover 30 cases of Dum-Dums on her doorstep, each containing 2,340 pieces […]
A Uruguay man living in Italy found himself with a Guinness World Records title thanks to an unusual party trick: popping his eyes out of their sockets. Williams Martin Sanchez Lopez, who is from Montevideo, Uruguay, and currently lives in Milan, Italy, said he learned when he was about 8 or 9 years old that […]
A miniature donkey who escaped from his owner’s Massachusetts property after a bear entered his stall was found safe two days later. Lanesborough Animal Control said the donkey, named Murty, fled from Jerry and Deirdre Carter’s property Saturday night when a bear entered his stall. Officials initially feared Murty had been attacked by the bear, but […]
A total 918 people sat down at 150 tables to play simultaneous games of Monopoly and break a Guinness World Record in Australia. The record attempt in Sydney was organized by the Little Legs Foundation, a charity that raises funds and awareness for children with brain cancer, and Sue-Ellan and Marino Vasiliou, whose daughter, Alegra, died of […]
An Alaska woman had her massive mouth measured by a dentist and broke a Guinness World Record with her 2.98-inch gape. Ketchikan resident Marie Pearl Zellmer Robinson said she always knew she had a large mouth, but hadn’t considered it might be a world record until she saw a video of the previous record-holder, Samantha […]
A British teenager broke a Guinness World Record by hand-drawing a flip-book that went on for 1,300 pages. Max Budgen, 17, of Petersfield, Hampshire, told Guinness World Records he drew his flip-book, titled Thunder Strikes, over the course of several days. The record attempt itself took place over a number of days. I’d sit down on […]
A dog who went missing in Utah turned up about two weeks later at an animal shelter in Texas — over 1,000 miles from home. The Colony Animal Services said the dog, named Huey, was picked up as a stray by the Collin County Animal Shelter and it was later learned the canine’s owner had been searching […]
A Maryland man helping his mom move some furniture found a stash of scratch-off lottery tickets — and one turned out to be a $50,000 winner. The Nottingham man told Maryland Lottery officials he was helping his mother move furniture at her house when he came across the small stack of long-forgotten tickets that had originally been intended […]
