South Korea’s Seoul National University said more than 1,400 students have applied for an unusual scholarship offering up to $540 to pupils who climb six mountains. The Misan Mountain Hiking Scholarship, which accepted applications from July 8-18, offers $216 in scholarship money to students who climb three mountains by the end of the year and $540 to […]
The 2025 U.K. Dog Surfing Championships in Dorset, England, saw three different Guinness World Records being broken by paddleboarding pooches. Mark Reeves, the organizer of the annual event at Branksome Dene Chine, decided this year’s Dog Surfing Championships would include world record attempts for the most dog/human pairs paddleboarding simultaneously, the fastest 50-meter paddleboarding by a human/dog […]
A British scuba diving team came to the rescue of a paddleboarder whose wedding ring fell into the River Great Ouse in Bedford, England. Ant Crocker said he was on the river near Cardington Lock on Friday when he realized his wedding ring was missing from his finger. I tried swimming down but visibility was […]
A Kentucky animal shelter shared video of an escape artist dog, appropriately named Chase, getting out of his kennel by climbing over the door. The Pike County Animal Shelter posted a video to Facebook showing the Houdini-like hound scaling the tall door of his kennel and jumping to the other side. The video, set to the Mission: Impossible theme, […]
A California woman who loves golfing broke an unusual Guinness World Record by putting 711 tees into her hair. Anya Bannasch, 45, earned the title for most golf tees in the hair when her friends spent 47 minutes helping her fill her locks with the small wooden pegs. I’ve always dreamed of being in the Guinness World […]
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. […]
