Author: Angie Sharma
An Australian father and son took to the sky in a glider and broke a Guinness World Record by performing 45 consecutive inside loops. David Scutchings said he decided he wanted to go for a world record as he approached his 50th birthday, so he recruited his son, Max, 16, to join him in a twin-seat DG-1000 […]
A full-grown goat standing at just 1 foot, 3 inches tall has been dubbed the shortest living goat in the world by Guinness World Records. Karumbi, a 4-year-old female black pygmy goat, belongs to Kerala, India, farmer Peter Lenu, who said he hadn’t considered her diminutive stature could be record-breaking until a guest remarked that his pygmy […]
An Idaho man broke a Guinness World Record — and a sign at the organization’s headquarters — by completing 38 behind-the-back basketball passes in 30 seconds. David Rush, who holds the most concurrent Guinness World Records, attempted the record for the most behind-the-back passes off a wall in 30 seconds during a visit to Guinness World Records […]
Police in South Carolina rounded up an escaped kangaroo, which turned out to have been released by a mischievous goat. The Horry County Police Department said on social media that the 4th Precinct Patrol Division responded to a neighborhood where a kangaroo was seen on the loose. The officers “returned this pouch potato pet home,” the […]
A group of Georgia men broke a Guinness World Record by playing a continuous basketball game for 121 hours and 3 minutes. The men, members of the Atlanta-based nonprofit Men Opposing Sex Trafficking, or MOST, completed their game at 10 a.m. Friday in the gym at Landmark Christian School in Fairburn. The 23 players ranged in age […]
A German city broke a Guinness World Record when it hosted a parade that featured some 900 dachshunds or more. Regensburg, home of the dachshund-themed Dackelmuseum, hosted the world’s largest dachshund dog walk when the Dackelparade featured at least 897 wiener dogs walking with their owners. Some counts indicated the number may have been as high as […]
An Ontario woman was reunited with her beloved pet cat 7 years and 4 months after he went missing, thanks to the animal’s microchip. The Windsor/Essex Humane Society said on social media that the cat, named Julio, went missing in November 2017. The shelter said Julio “somehow managed to avoid getting caught” despite being microchipped and his […]
Serial Guinness World Record-breaker David Rush may have created a new title category by juggling in all 63 U.S. national parks. Rush, who holds the most concurrent Guinness World Records, visited all 63 U.S. national parks with his family over the course of five years, and at each park he took some time to film himself juggling. […]
A California woman said she is going to buy her brother a new car after she gave him some money to buy her a lottery ticket and he came back with a $1 million winner. The winner, identified as J. Garcia, told California Lottery officials she gave her brother some cash to buy her a scratch-off ticket. Once […]
A Pennsylvania resort gave skiers and snowboarders the chance to win season passes — and all they had to do was make it across a pond. The Bear Creek Mountain Resort shared a video to social media showing employees creating an artificial pond at the bottom of an incline for the pond skimming competition, part of the […]
