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An Arizona film festival’s display of more than 1,300 movie posters broke a Guinness World Record. The Chandler Film Festival’s wall of posters at the Look Dine-in Cinema was examined by a Guinness World Records adjudicator and determined to be the world’s largest display of movie posters. The posters represented movies that have been screened at the […]
Animal rescuers in Australia responded to a hotel where a bat apparently attempted to take a drink from the swimming pool and became trapped in the water. Kate CJ Murphy, president of Townsville Bat Rescue Australia, posted a video to the organization’s Facebook page showing the black flying fox swimming in the pool, unable to get out. […]
A North Carolina woman decided to buy her first-ever Powerball ticket and ended up winning $150,000. Hurdle Mills resident Sydney Davis told North Carolina Education Lottery officials she went to the Country Store on Hurdle Mills Road and bought her first-ever Powerball ticket. The ticket matched four white balls and the red Powerball in Wednesday’s drawing, earning her a […]
A book found in a hallway outside of a British library turned to have been due back at the facility 49 years and six months earlier. The Torrington Library in Devon, England, said on social media that a copy of The Boy and the River by Henri Bosco was found by a volunteer in a hallway just outside of […]
An Arizona man whose dog ran off during a stop in Oklahoma City was reunited with his canine companion eight years later. Paul Guilbeault said he was in the midst of a move from Massachusetts to Arizona eight years ago when he made a pit stop in Oklahoma City and took his 5-year-old miniature pinscher, Damian, for […]
An environmental group in Mississippi might have broken a Guinness World Record with a cayenne pepper plant that grew to be nearly 16.5 feet tall. Henry Pope, the lead grower and plant geneticist for Mississippi Foundation for Renewable Energy, said he spent seven years cross-pollinating specific pepper plants with an aim toward creating a variety of plant […]
An environmental group in Mississippi might have broken a Guinness World Record with a cayenne pepper plant that grew to be nearly 16.5 feet tall. Henry Pope, the lead grower and plant geneticist for Mississippi Foundation for Renewable Energy, said he spent seven years cross-pollinating specific pepper plants with an aim toward creating a variety of plant […]
Customers and stylists at a barbershop in China were left scrambling for the exit when a cow pushed its way in through the door and ran through the small shop. Footage recorded at the barbershop in Nanyang, Henan Province, shows the cow pushing the door open and running into the shop, bumping into multiple pieces of furniture […]
A British woman donned a polar bear costume to run a frigid Norwegian marathon and break a world record with her time of 4 hours, 58 minutes and 29 seconds. Gill Punt, 54, a teacher from Essex, took on the PolarNight Marathon in Tromsø, Norway, which took runners on a dark mountain pass in temperatures […]
A British choir of 17 people with an average age of 94 was officially named the world’s oldest choir by Guinness World Records. The choir, dubbed the Prime Timers, was composed of 17 members ranging in age from 87 to 99 years old when they took to the stage for their Christmas concert Dec. 19. A […]
