Author: Angie Sharma

A bodybuilder known as the “Steel Man of India” added another Guinness World Records title to his name: the heaviest weight holding Hercules Pillars. Vispy Kharadi, who has broken Guinness World Records 17 times in the past, had to hold the pillars, which each weighed 575.4 pounds, for a full minute, and he exceeded that time […]

Bollywood star Katrina Kaif has finally confirmed that she is expecting her first child with husband Vicky Kaushal. Putting an end to the rumours that had been circulating for weeks, the actress shared a heartwarming photograph on social media that has already set the internet abuzz. The picture, presented in a Polaroid frame, captures a […]

A Catholic nun in Ohio celebrated her 105th birthday by hitting the links for a round of golf with the sisters from her convent. Sister René Parman and her cohorts from Humility of Mary visited the Knoll Run Golf Course in Lowellville on Friday, two days before her 105th birthday, to engage in one of her […]

A North Carolina man scored a $130,000 jackpot from a Cash 5 lottery drawing just days before his 40th birthday. Clinton resident Corey Hamilton told North Carolina Education Lottery officials he stopped at the Han-Dee Hugo’s on Southeast Boulevard in Clinton and bought a Quick Pick ticket for the Tuesday night drawing. Hamilton said he checked the drawing […]

A Virginia orchard officially captured the Guinness World Records title for the heaviest peach by growing a fruit that weighed in at 1.83 pounds. The Chiles Peach Orchard in Crozet said peach pickers harvested the massive fruit earlier in September and suspected it could beat the world record, which stood at 1.8 pounds. We weren’t […]

A capuchin monkey escaped from a North Carolina zoo and was caught on camera walking across utility lines in Iredell County. Iredell County Animal Services issued a public notice Wednesday informing local residents that the money escaped from Zootastic Park in Troutman and had been spotted wandering the area. The Iredell Firewire shared a video captured by a resident […]

An Austrian daredevil lit his body on fire and pulled a car a distance of 328 feet in 56.42 seconds to earn a Guinness World Records title. Josef Tödtling became the first person to hold the record for fastest 100 meter car pull in full body burn when he completed the stunt in Vienna on June 24. […]

Nigerian celebrity chef Hilda Baci earned a Guinness World Record by cooking up a serving of Nigerian-style jollof rice weighing in at nearly 20,000 pounds. Baci, who rocketed to international fame when she broke the record for the longest cooking marathon at 93 hours and 11 minutes in May 2023, teamed up with food manufacturer […]

A Michigan man was in for a happy surprise after learning he won three times what he expected in a Powerball drawing in August. Thomas Clark, of Clio, Mich., picked four of the five winning balls — 16-19-34-37-64 — in the Aug. 25 drawing to win $50,000. He forgot, though, that he also selected a Powerball number […]

A Saudi Arabian motorcyclist performed a nearly 1,000-foot wheelie while holding a handlebar in his mouth to break a Guinness World Record. Ahmed Othman clamped his jaws around a handlebar of his motorcycle to keep the vehicle steady during his wheelie in Jeddah on July 15. He managed to ride in this position for 984 […]