Serial Guinness World Record-breaker David Rush teamed up with fellow YouTuber Josh Horton and his crew to eat baked beans with toothpicks. Rush, Horton and two members of Horton’s crew took on the record for the most baked beans eaten with a toothpick in 3 minutes by a team of 4. The number to beat was 429, and […]
An Indiana man’s towering sunflower is unofficially a world record-breaker after being measured at 30 feet and 7 inches tall. Fort Wayne resident Alex Babich previously attempted to break the U.S. record with a sunflower he grew last year, but ultimately fell short. A documentary named Bloom chronicled his efforts, and the crew returned to his home […]
An Indiana gardener said his sunflower plant is within a foot of breaking a Guinness World Record — and it’s still growing. Fort Wayne man Alex Babich’s sunflower surpassed the U.S. record last week when it reached 26 feet and 8 inches tall. Babich said his flower has continued to grow, and is now within […]
A Texas woman’s pet dachshund celebrated his birthday by removing 11 caps from plastic bottles in one minute, earning a Guinness World Records title in the process. Jerry, a canine belonging to Sathya Priya Easwaran, put his skills to the test on his fourth birthday and officially earned the record for the most plastic bottle caps […]
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 […]
