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A California man discovered he has been mistakenly paying his neighbor’s power bill for up to 18 years. Ken Wilson, who has lived in the same apartment since 2006, said he recently noticed his Pacific Gas and Electric bill was going up, so he took steps to try to reduce his energy usage. He reached out to […]
The second set of critically endangered cotton-top tamarin triplets to be born this year at Walt Disney World have arrived, park officials announced Saturday. The three tiny primates were born at Animal Kingdom’s Discovery Island on Saturday and are bonding with their parents and siblings, a Disney World spokesperson told UPI. A earlier batch of the small-but-powerful […]
The oldest person alive was honored on Japan’s Respect for the Aged Day. Tomiko Itooka, now 116 years old, became the world’s eldest living resident after Maria Branyas Morera died. Morera had been 117 years old. Itooka outlived her husband, who died in 1979. Her son, Hiroshi Kai, said his mother liked spending time […]
A North Carolina woman won $346,088 from a Cash 5 lottery drawing, her second major jackpot after previously winning $100,000 less than a year ago. Newport resident Cathy Noe told North Carolina Education Lottery officials she stopped at the C Co Mini Mart on U.S. 70 in Newport and bought a $1 ticket for the Aug. 29 Cash […]
A pair of South African farmers harvesting their crops made a startling discovery: a record-breaking plum weighing in at 16.3 ounces. Dean and Deon Barnard, owners of the Oppie Plaas Boerdery farm, said they never set out to break records with their plums. It hasn’t been bred to set records,” Dean Barnard told Guinness World Records. “The […]
An Idaho man with more than 181 Guinness World Records added another title to his name by donning boxing gloves and punching balloons. David Rush, aka Record Breaker Rush on YouTube, said the first time he looked up the record for the most balloons burst with boxing gloves in one minute, it stood at 33. He said […]
A South Carolina woman won a $300,000 prize from a scratch-off lottery ticket just under two years after she collected a $1 million prize. The Midlands woman told South Carolina Education Lottery officials she stopped at King Fuel on Two Notch Road in Columbia to buy a $10 scratch-off ticket, and selected a $300,000 Gold Rush game. She […]
A Mexican city hosted a successful attempt for a tasty Guinness World Record: the world’s largest string cheese ball. The Oaxaca state government and the municipality of Reyes Etla teamed up to organize the record attempt. The cheese makers used a rotating table to create the massive string cheese ball, which is also known as Oaxaca cheese. […]
A Virginia man won a lottery prize worth $1,000 a week for life from a ticket his father gave to him as a gift. Aaron Andrews told Virginia Lottery officials that he and his wife have been living in his father’s basement since their wedding in April. Andrews said his father bought him a ticket for the Aug. […]
A college student from India broke a Guinness World Record by transforming a refillable ballpoint pen into the world’s smallest vacuum cleaner. Tapala Nadamuni, 23, spent about $238 transforming his pen into a vacuum measuring just .25 inches at the shortest axis of its body. He said his tiny vacuum creates suction via a tiny rotating fan […]
