Author: Angie Sharma

  An iron-stomached speed eater broke a Guinness World Record by eating 25 Carolina reaper chili peppers in 4 minutes and 36.26 seconds. Mike Jack, a Canadian YouTuber famous for his high tolerance for spicy food, broke the Guinness World Record for the fastest time to eat 25 Carolina reaper chili peppers at Goatfest in Kitchener, Ontario. […]

An 18-year-old from India was awarded the Guinness World Record for the hairiest face on a person when officials determined he had 201.72 hairs per square centimeter of skin. Lalit Patidar earned the male version of the record after living with a rare hair growth condition called hypertrichosis, which is also known as “werewolf syndrome.” The condition […]

The world’s first — and possibly only — orchestra to exclusively make music from vegetable instruments was awarded a Guinness World Record after playing 344 concerts over the course of 27 years. The 11-piece Vegetable Orchestra formed in Vienna, Austria, in 1999, when musicians of various backgrounds came together with the idea of carving veggies […]

A park in Nagaizumi, Japan, has been officially named the worl’s smallest park, covering an area of just 2 1/2 square feet. The park near Nagaizumi Town Hall, about an hour’s drive from Tokyo, was created in 1988 after a worker at the construction management division of Nagaizumi Town returned from a trip to the United States. […]

A serial Guinness World Record breaker bested one of his own titles by folding and throwing a paper plane in just 5.12 seconds. David Rush, who holds the most concurrent Guinness World Records titles, attempted to beat his own record for the fastest time to fold and throw a paper airplane during a visit to […]

A Michigan Lottery player who stuck with the same set of Lotto 47 numbers for four years found his persistence paid off with a $1.3 million jackpot. The 54-year-old Wayne County man told Michigan Lottery officials he bought a ticket for the Jan. 8 Lotto 47 drawing from Mac’s II Inc. on Northline Road in Taylor bearing the numbers 04-08-17-28-36-43. I […]

A Virginia woman scored a $2 million lottery prize thanks to a store clerk who mistakenly gave her the wrong ticket. Carrollton resident Kelly Lindsay told Virginia Lottery officials she was initially unhappy when a clerk at Race Way Carrollton on Carrollton Boulevard handed her a Money Blitz scratch-off ticket instead of the ticket she wanted. Linsday took […]

The Idaho man who holds the most concurrent Guinness World Records titles added a coveted record to his collection: the most juggling tricks performed in one minute. David Rush, who holds several world record titles involving juggling, attempted to beat the previous record of 39 tricks in one minute during a visit to Guinness World […]

A Brazilian couple whose wedding was in 1940 officially took the Guinness World Record for the longest marriage for a living couple. Manoel Angelim Dino, 105, and Maria de Sousa Dino, 101, were awarded the title when Guinness World Records and LongeviQuest, a website that tracks data about centenarians and super-centenarians, verified they had been married for 84 […]

A 14-year-old “human calculator” from India put his mental math to the test and broke six Guinness World Records in a single day. Aaryan Shukla, 14, of Maharashtra, set his first Guinness World Record about a year ago, when he took on the record for the fastest time to mentally add 50 five-digit numbers on […]