Weird
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His name probably doesn’t speak to you, and yet Victor Lustig was one of the greatest crooks of his time. His biggest scam? Having successfully sold the Eiffel Tower to a scrap dealer. At what price? We’ll never know… Look back at one of the biggest scams of the 20th century. Born in 1890 in […]
A Welsh woman earned a Guinness World Record for her collection of 5,284 pieces of Harry Potter memorabilia. Tracey Nicol-Lewis, of Mid Glamorgan, told Guinness World Records she started collecting merchandise from J.K. Rowling‘s book series and the film adaptations in 2002, and her collection now includes special edition books, toys, key chains, illustrations, prop replicas, Lego sets and more. […]
Pule donkey cheese is the most expensive cheese in the world. Produced by only one farm in the world, pule will cost you about $600 for a single pound. Making it requires more time and effort than most other cheeses. You need over 6 1/2 gallons of donkey’s milk just to make 1 kilogram of […]
An Italian farmer broke the Guinness World Record for the heaviest pumpkin when his gargantuan gourd weighed in at more than 2,700 pounds. Stefano Cutrupi of Radda took his pumpkin to compete at the Campionato della Zuccone pumpkin festival in Peccioli, where it tipped the scales at 2,702 pounds and 13.9 ounces. The previous world […]
A Lithuanian man put his endurance to the test by spending 3 hours and 1 minute submerged up to his neck in ice to break a Guinness World Record. Valerjan Romanovski took on the Guinness record for longest duration of full body contact with ice by climbing into a glass container filled with ice cubes on the […]
An Ontario family’s home security camera was rolling when a bear visited their front porch to steal a large pumpkin and found the task more difficult than expected. Ashley Larose, of Sudbury, said she had just finished putting up the fall decorations on her front porch when the home had a late night visit from […]
A British man’s pub crawl may have set a new Guinness World Record when he visited 51 bars in 24 hours. Matt Ellis of St. Neots, Cambridgeshire, England, said Guinness officials told him there is currently no world record for most pubs visited in 12 hours by an individual, so the record-keeping agency set the goal to originate […]
A pair of Idaho men reclaimed a Guinness World Record when one of them threw 35 ping pong balls that the other caught in a mass of shaving cream on his head. David Rush, who has broken more than 200 Guinness records to promote STEM education, originally teamed up with Jonathan “Hollywood” Hannon to set […]
An annual competition for growers of giant vegetables in Britain resulted in four Guinness World Records being broken: heaviest eggplant, heaviest marrow, heaviest broad bean pod and longest leek. A Guinness adjudicator was on hand at the CANNA U.K. National Giant Vegetables Championship in Malvern, Worcestershire, England, to determine if any of the entries in were […]
The Euthanasia Coaster is a hypothetical steel roller coaster designed to kill its passengers. It was designed in 2010 and made into a scale model by Lithuanian artist Julijonas Urbonas, a PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art in London. Urbonas, who has worked at an amusement park, stated that the goal of his […]
