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A champion ice skater from Hungary took her jump rope out on the ice and broke a Guinness World Record with her skates on. Eszter Szombathelyi, who earned titles as both the Junior and Senior National Champion in Hungary, went out on the ice in Sun Valley, Idaho, and performed 136 rope skips in a […]

A serial Guinness World Record-breaker took some time during an ocean cruise to spit a table tennis ball at a wall and break one of his own records. David Rush, who holds the most concurrent Guinness World Records titles at more than 181, said he was “somewhere in the North Atlantic Ocean” aboard the Disney […]

A Maryland man who said he rarely plays the lottery was inspired by the recent massive Powerball jackpot to buy a ticket that earned him a $50,000 prize. The Middle River man told Maryland Lottery officials he doesn’t buy lottery tickets very often, but decided to pick up $100 worth of Powerball tickets from the Royal Farms store on Bowley’s […]

A serial Guinness World Record-breaker from Spain defeated one of his own titles by running 328 feet backward in 16.55 seconds — while wearing high heels. Christian Roberto López Rodríguez broke the record for the fastest 100 meters backwards in high heels, which he previously set at 20.05 seconds during an appearance on Spanish TV series La […]

A precocious pet parrot from China earned a Guinness World Record for the fastest time to identify 10 colors. Xiaogui, a pet belonging to Qin Feng, picked up colored straw balls and placed them into bins of corresponding colors in 33.5 seconds, earning the title for the fastest time to identify 10 colors by a parrot. […]

  A Georgia nonprofit earned its third Guinness World Records title by playing a game of kickball that went on for 52 consecutive hours. Men Opposing Sex Trafficking, or MOST, gathered 27 men and 13 women to start a game of kickball at 8 a.m. Friday in Fairburn, Ga., and the game continued for 52 […]

A forgetful Maryland man bought two identical tickets for the same Powerball Double Play drawing and scored two $500,000 prizes, for a total of $1 million. The Prince George‘s County man told Maryland Lottery officials he was at the A-1 Laundromat on Riverdale Road in Riverdale on Aug. 18 when he couldn’t recall whether he already had a ticket for […]

An Idaho man took 96 hits to the face with wet sponges in a single minute, recapturing an unusual Guinness World Records title in the process. David “Record Breaker” Rush and frequent collaborator Jonathan “Hollywood” Hannon previously held the record for the most wet sponges thrown in one minute (team of two) with a total of 92, […]

Bollywood actor Govinda and his wife, Sunita Ahuja, have addressed recent speculation about their marriage, firmly denying any rift between them.  The couple appeared united during the Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations at their residence, putting to rest rumours suggesting a possible divorce. In a candid interaction with the Viral Bhayani, Sunita expressed her unwavering commitment to […]

Guinness World Records is celebrating its 70th anniversary by challenging fans to attempt 70 unclaimed titles, including the fastest 400 meter sack race. The record-keeping organization’s anniversary falls Wednesday, 70 years after the very first Guinness Book of World Records was compiled in a room above a London gym and published Aug. 27, 1955. The organization […]