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A New York woman visited Arkansas’ Crater of Diamonds State Park to find a stone for her engagement ring and wound up discovering a 2.3-carat white diamond. Manhattan resident Micherre Fox, 31, said she decided about two years ago that she would find her own engagement ring diamond. There’s something symbolic about being able to […]
A Virginia woman scored a prize of $100,000 a year for 10 years from a scratch-off lottery ticket about four decades after collecting a $25,000 prize. Gloucester resident Oletha Etheridge told Virginia Lottery officials she stopped at the Food Lion store on Hargett Boulevard in Gloucester and selected a $100,000 a Year ticket. The ticket earned Etheridge a […]
A Texas woman’s pet chicken was officially named the oldest in the world by Guinness World Records at the age of 14 years and 69 days old. Little Elm resident Sonya Hull said she hatched the chicken, Pearl, in her personal incubator on March 13, 2011. Guinness World Records confirmed Pearl’s age on May 22, […]
Serial Guinness World Record-breaker David Rush teamed up with fellow YouTuber Josh Horton and his crew to eat baked beans with toothpicks. Rush, Horton and two members of Horton’s crew took on the record for the most baked beans eaten with a toothpick in 3 minutes by a team of 4. The number to beat was 429, and […]
An Indiana man’s towering sunflower is unofficially a world record-breaker after being measured at 30 feet and 7 inches tall. Fort Wayne resident Alex Babich previously attempted to break the U.S. record with a sunflower he grew last year, but ultimately fell short. A documentary named Bloom chronicled his efforts, and the crew returned to his home […]
An Indiana gardener said his sunflower plant is within a foot of breaking a Guinness World Record — and it’s still growing. Fort Wayne man Alex Babich’s sunflower surpassed the U.S. record last week when it reached 26 feet and 8 inches tall. Babich said his flower has continued to grow, and is now within […]
A Texas woman’s pet dachshund celebrated his birthday by removing 11 caps from plastic bottles in one minute, earning a Guinness World Records title in the process. Jerry, a canine belonging to Sathya Priya Easwaran, put his skills to the test on his fourth birthday and officially earned the record for the most plastic bottle caps […]
South Korea’s Seoul National University said more than 1,400 students have applied for an unusual scholarship offering up to $540 to pupils who climb six mountains. The Misan Mountain Hiking Scholarship, which accepted applications from July 8-18, offers $216 in scholarship money to students who climb three mountains by the end of the year and $540 to […]
The 2025 U.K. Dog Surfing Championships in Dorset, England, saw three different Guinness World Records being broken by paddleboarding pooches. Mark Reeves, the organizer of the annual event at Branksome Dene Chine, decided this year’s Dog Surfing Championships would include world record attempts for the most dog/human pairs paddleboarding simultaneously, the fastest 50-meter paddleboarding by a human/dog […]
A British scuba diving team came to the rescue of a paddleboarder whose wedding ring fell into the River Great Ouse in Bedford, England. Ant Crocker said he was on the river near Cardington Lock on Friday when he realized his wedding ring was missing from his finger. I tried swimming down but visibility was […]
