Author: Angie Sharma
The longest fingernails on a pair of hands ever (female) belong to Diana Armstrong (USA) and measure 1,306.58 cm (42 ft 10.4 in), as verified in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, on 13 March 2022. Diana has not cut her nails since 1997 and has no plans to ever cut her nails again. She dedicates the nails […]
A TikToker has set the world record for the most blankets arm knitted in 24 hours, in a charity challenge watched by 1.2 million people. Dan Soar, known as the Tattooed Knitter, knitted the 19 blankets in memory of his grandmother Margaret Soar, who was a keen knitter herself. Mr Soar, from Shirland in […]
Juan Vicente Pérez Mora credited his longevity to “working hard, resting on holidays, going to bed early, drinking a glass of aguardiente every day, loving God, and always carrying him in his heart.” The world’s oldest man, Juan Vicente Pérez Mora, has died aged 114 – just two months before what would have been […]
A dog who went missing at the Melbourne Airport in Australia was reunited with his owner in Wales after a 17-day search. The dog, named Milo, had been due to travel home to Swansea, Wales, with owner Jason Whatnall when the canine escaped from the custody of AeroPets Animal Transport. A 17-day search of the area was […]
Bollywood superstar Salman Khan is back in Mumbai after a short trip to Dubai. This comes after his recent social media post from Dubai, which marked his first since a gunfire incident near his Bandra residence in Mumbai. Khan’s return follows his attendance at a Karate Combat event held in Dubai on April 20. He […]
A Nigerian chess master is more than 50 hours into his attempt to play chess for 60 consecutive hours and break a Guinness World Record in the process. Tunde Onakoya started playing chess at a table in New York’s Times Square on Wednesday, and he crossed the 50-hour mark in the early afternoon Friday. The […]
New York’s famous Plaza Hotel hosted a Guinness World Record-breaking event featuring 353 ballerinas en pointe at the same time. The nonprofit Youth America Grand Prix, which organizes competitions for young dancers, celebrated its 25th anniversary by gathering the white tutu-clad ballerinas at the hotel and having them all go en pointe — the ballet term […]
A North Carolina man stopped for gas and ended up winning a $200,000 lottery prize he plans to use to fund his daughter’s education. Bobby Coleman. of Kenly. told North Carolina Education Lottery officials he stopped for gas at the Oasis station on South Church Street in Kenly and decided to buy a $5 Bankroll scratch-off lottery ticket. […]
An Australian man took the largest pumpkin grown in the country this year and turned it into a canoe that he paddled down the Tumut River. The nearly 900-pound pumpkin, named Tormund in honor of Game of Thrones character Tormund Giantsbane, was grown by Mark Peacock and scored a blue ribbon at the Royal Easter Show. The pumpkin, the […]
An Idaho man balanced a running lawnmower on his chin for 9 minutes, 17 seconds to break a Guinness World Record. David Rush, who is on a quest to hold the most concurrent Guinness World Records titles, previously attempted the record about four years ago, but his time of 3 minutes, 52 seconds was disqualified because his […]
