Author: Angie Sharma
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 […]
A Kentucky woman received mail from her lifelong friend on her birthday and opened it to find a familiar card: the same birthday card the women have been sending to one another for 81 years. Pat DeReamer, who turned 95 on Tuesday, said the tradition began on her 14th birthday in Indianapolis, when her friend, […]
