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A South Carolina woman whose husband forgot to buy her lottery tickets made her own trip to the store and ended up winning $500,000. The Upstate woman told officials she made a trip to the 357 Redi Mart in Lyman because her husband had forgotten to buy the lottery tickets she requested. I was standing […]
Serial Guinness World Record-breaker David Rush unofficially broke a record when he and a friend popped 10 balloons between their bodies in 7.5 seconds. Rush, who has more than 181 Guinness World Records titles to his name, originally teamed up with friend Jonathan “Hollywood” Hannon and popped 10 balloons between their bodies in 15 […]
An Iowa man received a scratch-off lottery ticket as a gift from a friend and scored a $100,000 birthday surprise. Des Moines man Christian Johnson told Iowa Lottery officials he was celebrating his 42nd birthday with friends when they presented him with a card containing a few scratch-off tickets. Johnson said he handed one of the tickets to […]
An arcade in the Philippines earned a Guinness World Record by installing the world’s largest claw machine, which encompasses an area of 1,761 cubic feet. The PlayFair arcade at the TOPS landmark in Cebu City unveiled Claw King, a massive claw machine that was officially measured by a construction firm for Guinness World Records consideration. Claw King was […]
A British Columbia woman’s phone has been flooded with calls about a missing cat that doesn’t exist, and it’s all because of a T-shirt. Natasha Lavoie and Jonathan McCurrach said dozens of calls have come in from people claiming to have found their cat, Torbo — but their cat is named Mauser, and isn’t missing. […]
A Massachusetts man accidentally bought two identical tickets for the same Powerball drawing and ended up with two $1 million prizes. Fitchburg resident Paul Corcoran told Massachusetts State Lottery officials he bought a ticket for seven Powerball drawings and later mistakenly thought the final drawing had already occurred, so his next ticket purchase included a second ticket for the July […]
Two British social media chefs teamed up to cook the world’s largest scotch egg, which weighed in at a whopping 17 pounds and 3.48 ounces. Phoenix Ross and Oli Paterson came together in Enfield, England, to attempt to break the Guinness World Record of 13 pounds and 10 ounces, which had stood for nearly 20 years. […]
A Washington woman earned a Guinness World Record for her collection of 4,060 different jigsaw puzzles. Liza Fireman, 46, of Bellevue, told Guinness World Records she started collecting puzzles in 2019, and she has since accumulated thousands of designs, mostly from her favorite manufacturer, Ravensburger. I didn’t set out to break the world record, I […]
A goat stranded on a Hawaii cliff for nearly a week was rescued by climbers and taken to a veterinarian, where she was found to be pregnant. The goat was first spotted on the 120-foot Hawi cliff in North Kohala on July 7, and she resisted early attempts at capture. Once we were on site, […]
A Cabrales cheese aged in a cave for 10 months received top marks in a competition in Spain and earned a Guinness World Record when it was auctioned for $42,232. The cheese, created by Ángel Díaz Herrero cheese factory, was sold by the Regulatory Council DOP Cabrales in Asturias, Spain, and purchased by restaurant El […]
