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 […]
A 3-year-old water buffalo living at a farm in Thailand has been named the tallest in the world, with a height of 6 feet and .8 inches from hoof to withers. King Kong, a resident of Ninlanee Farm in Nakhon Ratchasima is nearly 20 inches taller than the average adult water buffalo, Guinness World Records said. Owner […]
An experienced circus performer from Colombia broke a Guinness World Record when he juggled five balls for 45 minutes while doing a headstand. José Valencia, 34, said he spent years practicing the trick before making an official attempt at the Guinness World Records title for longest duration juggling five balls while performing a headstand. I had worked […]
A talented dog rode his skateboard through a tunnel made up of 40 people standing with their legs apart to break a Guinness World Record. Coda, a cocker spaniel belonging to Japanese dog trainer Satomi Asano, broke the record for the longest human tunnel traveled through by a dog on a skateboard on the set of Italian […]
