Author: Angie Sharma

A Pennsylvania resort gave skiers and snowboarders the chance to win season passes — and all they had to do was make it across a pond. The Bear Creek Mountain Resort shared a video to social media showing employees creating an artificial pond at the bottom of an incline for the pond skimming competition, part of the […]

  The oldest licensed ambulance in the United States earned a Guinness World Record when two men drove it more than 3,200 miles from Hollywood, Calif., to Hollywood, Fla. The 1972 Cadillac ambulance took the cross-country journey with a team from Symbiosis Ambulance and Axene Continuing Education, an emergency medical service non-profit. The team said […]

A Pennsylvania resort gave skiers and snowboarders the chance to win season passes — and all they had to do was make it across a pond. The Bear Creek Mountain Resort shared a video to social media showing employees creating an artificial pond at the bottom of an incline for the pond skimming competition, part of the […]

A 4-year-old Wisconsin boy called 911 to report his “mom was being bad” by eating his ice cream. The Village of Mount Pleasant Police Department said on social media that two officers responded to a home where “a little boy called 911 saying his mom was being bad and needed to go to jail.” The 4-year-old informed […]

  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 […]