Author: Angie Sharma

Police in Britain stopped a runner they spotted with a refrigerator strapped to his back, but they discovered he wasn’t fleeing from a crime — he was training for a marathon. Daniel Fairbrother said he was practicing running with a fridge strapped to his back in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, when he was stopped by officers. They […]

An Arizona man out kayaking and diving with his family in the Salt River found a wallet lost in the water in 1995 and was able to return it to its owner. Jeremy Bingham of Mesa said he was on the river with his two brothers, two sisters and sons Taylor, 17, and Zachary, 14, […]

An Iowa man visited state lottery headquarters to collect a $100,000 prize for the second time in under a year. The Iowa Lottery said Alvin “Al” Van Zee won the $100,000 from a $10 Bonus Multiplier scratch-off ticket he bought from the Git N Go store on Oskaloosa Street in Pella. Van Zee previously visited Iowa Lottery headquarters on […]

A Czech Republic man who earned a Guinness World Record for the largest collection of Lego sets turned his love into a museum with four locations. Miloš Křeček, who received his first Lego set as a Christmas present when he was 5 years old, was verified by Guinness World Records as owning 6,005 different Lego sets. Křeček […]

  A Polish woman spent 3 hours, 6 minutes and 45 seconds standing in a box filled up to her neck with ice to set a Guinness World Record. Katarzyna Jakubowska, 48, officially set the world record for the longest duration full body contact with ice (female). Jakubowska’s time was just short of the male version […]

A Jewish congregation in New York teamed up with a Brooklyn bakery to attempt to break a Guinness World Record with a 35-foot, 2-inch challah bread. Congregation Rodeph Sholom on the Upper West Side teamed up with the Jewish Federations of North America, the Orthodox Union and Strauss Bakery in Brooklyn to create the massive braided bread. […]

A Guinness World Record was broken in Baishan, China, when 1,946 people gathered to play whipping tops at the same time. A GWR adjudicator was present at the Songhua River Eco-tourism Scenic Area to oversee the game, which involves a player using a small whip to keep a spinning top in motion. The people kept their tops spinning for […]

An Australian woman’s bandicoot-ravaged yard was dubbed the winner of the first-ever World’s Ugliest Lawn competition. Kathleen Murray of Sandford, Tasmania, was named the winner of the contest, which was organized by the town of Gotland, Sweden. Gotland started the contest two years ago to encourage locals to conserve water amid a near-disastrous drought in the town, […]

A pair of New York twin brothers are ending their high school careers as valedictorian and salutatorian of their graduating class. Devon Lee, 17, was named valedictorian of his class at Herrick Public High School in New Hyde Park, Long Island, and his twin brother, Dylan, was named salutatorian. “Our parents value education, and they’ve […]