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    A Virginia man who won a $230,001 prize from a lottery drawing said he already knows what he will do with half of the money: give it to his brother. Tim Conwell of Cedar Bluff told Virginia Lottery officials he bought his Cash 5 with EZ Match ticket from the Virginia Hillbilly Market on Stoney Ridge […]

A pair of French pizza chefs teamed up with a cheesemaker and a YouTube star to create a pizza featuring 1,001 different types of cheese. Chefs Benoît Bruel and Fabien Montellanico worked with cheesemaker Sophie Hatat Richart-Luna and YouTuber Florian OnAir to break the Guinness World Record for the most varieties of cheese on a pizza. […]

A dog who fled from her new family within 24 hours of being adopted was found in England after living on her own in the woods for more than 6 years. Lost Dog Recovery UK South said team members were alerted to a stray dog in Crawley Down, West Sussex, in late November, so cameras were […]

Dubai Knowledge Park celebrated its 20th anniversary by creating the world’s largest Rubik’s cube. The park, which is home to 700 schools and other educational institutions, built a functioning puzzle cube measuring 9.8 feet on each side. The fiberglass cube weighs in at more than 660 pounds. Dubai Knowledge Park said on social media the cube was […]

A Mexican acrobat put her more than 10 years of training to the test and broke the Guinness World Record for the most aerial hoop somersaults in 1 minute. Yammel Rodriguez broke the record in the female category by completing 47 aerial hoop somersaults in the allotted time during a Las Vegas performance. Rodriguez said she became […]

A dog who fled from her new family within 24 hours of being adopted was found in England after living on her own in the woods for more than 6 years. Lost Dog Recovery UK South said team members were alerted to a stray dog in Crawley Down, West Sussex, in late November, so cameras were […]

  A 103-year-old artificial Christmas tree, one of the first to be mass produced, was auctioned for more than $4,000 in Britain. Hansons Auctioneers said the 2.5-foot-tall tree, described as the “humblest Christmas tree in the world,” sold for a total $4,296.13. The tree was brought to Dorothy Grant’s family home when she was 8 years […]

A Baltimore man said he used a set of numbers he inherited from his mother to win a $50,000 lottery prize. Andre Jones told Maryland Lottery officials his mother frequently used the numbers 9-1-5-2 to play Pick 4, and he took over the combination after she died. Jones said he recently decided to try the numbers on Pick […]

A South Korean team’s dog-like “HOUND” was dubbed the fastest robot on four legs when it traversed a distance of 328 feet in 19.87 seconds. The Dynamic Robot Control and Design Laboratory at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Daejeon developed the HOUND robot and Guinness World Records confirmed it broke the […]

A $2 million winning Michigan Lottery ticket spent four months being driven around in the oblivious winner’s truck. The 29-year-old Isabella County man told Michigan Lottery officials he bought his $20 Money scratch-off ticket from the Shepherd E-Z Mart on East Wright Avenue in Shepherd. Every so often I will stop and buy an instant ticket after work,” the […]