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A Uruguay man living in Italy found himself with a Guinness World Records title thanks to an unusual party trick: popping his eyes out of their sockets. Williams Martin Sanchez Lopez, who is from Montevideo, Uruguay, and currently lives in Milan, Italy, said he learned when he was about 8 or 9 years old that […]

A miniature donkey who escaped from his owner’s Massachusetts property after a bear entered his stall was found safe two days later. Lanesborough Animal Control said the donkey, named Murty, fled from Jerry and Deirdre Carter’s property Saturday night when a bear entered his stall. Officials initially feared Murty had been attacked by the bear, but […]

A total 918 people sat down at 150 tables to play simultaneous games of Monopoly and break a Guinness World Record in Australia. The record attempt in Sydney was organized by the Little Legs Foundation, a charity that raises funds and awareness for children with brain cancer, and Sue-Ellan and Marino Vasiliou, whose daughter, Alegra, died of […]

An Alaska woman had her massive mouth measured by a dentist and broke a Guinness World Record with her 2.98-inch gape. Ketchikan resident Marie Pearl Zellmer Robinson said she always knew she had a large mouth, but hadn’t considered it might be a world record until she saw a video of the previous record-holder, Samantha […]

A British teenager broke a Guinness World Record by hand-drawing a flip-book that went on for 1,300 pages. Max Budgen, 17, of Petersfield, Hampshire, told Guinness World Records he drew his flip-book, titled Thunder Strikes, over the course of several days. The record attempt itself took place over a number of days. I’d sit down on […]

A dog who went missing in Utah turned up about two weeks later at an animal shelter in Texas — over 1,000 miles from home. The Colony Animal Services said the dog, named Huey, was picked up as a stray by the Collin County Animal Shelter and it was later learned the canine’s owner had been searching […]

A Maryland man helping his mom move some furniture found a stash of scratch-off lottery tickets — and one turned out to be a $50,000 winner. The Nottingham man told Maryland Lottery officials he was helping his mother move furniture at her house when he came across the small stack of long-forgotten tickets that had originally been intended […]

A Kentucky woman received mail from her lifelong friend on her birthday and opened it to find a familiar card: the same birthday card the women have been sending to one another for 81 years. Pat DeReamer, who turned 95 on Tuesday, said the tradition began on her 14th birthday in Indianapolis, when her friend, […]

A Missouri museum gathered 309 people in banana hats to break an “a-peel-ing” Guinness World Record. The City Museum in St. Louis took on the title for the most people wearing banana hats at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday. An official Guinness World Records adjudicator was on site and confirmed the museum took the record with 309 participants. […]

An American man reclaimed the Guinness World Record for the most pull-ups in 24 hours after previously holding the record for less than one day. Truett Hanes previously attempted the record about two years later and successfully beat it with 8,100 pull-ups in the allotted time period, but his number was beaten less than a day later […]