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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 […]
A kitten has a new home with an Oregon sheriff’s deputy after hitching a 15-mile ride in the wheel well of a Search and Rescue team vehicle. The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office said a truck used by its Search and Rescue team was flagged to be inspected for a rodent infestation after it caught the […]
A New Hampshire man captured video of a bear climbing into a parked car through a damaged window and stealing a bag of chips. Geoffrey Starr shared video showing the mother bear climbing into the vehicle in Bartlett and remaining inside for a time before emerging with a bag of chips. Starr said the car’s window had […]
Furniture company Ikea gathered 2,052 employees at its first store in Sweden to hold the world’s largest pajama party. The chain broke the Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of people wearing two-piece pajamas at a single venue at the store in Almhult. Company officials said the record attempt was part of Ikea’s initiative to create […]
