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A Nigerian woman spent 11 days creating a 1,152-foot, 5-inch long handmade wig that was certified as the longest in the world. Guinness World Records confirmed professional wigmaker Helen Williams earned the title for the world’s longest handmade wig with her impressively long faux-locks. Williams said she used 1,000 bundles of hair, 12 cans of hair spray, […]
A Virginia man said he wasn’t intending to play the lottery, but a last-minute decision led to his winning a $5 million jackpot. Alexandr Pichshev of Fairfax told Virginia Lottery officials he wasn’t planning to play the lottery when he visited the Safeway store in Nutley Street, but he ended up changing his mind while walking past a […]
An Iowa man was officially awarded a Guinness World Records title for his collection of 69,255 pencils. Aaron Bartholmey, of Colfax, held a public counting event during the summer with help from the American Pencil Collectors Society and submitted the resulting total to Guinness World Records with ample evidence. Bartholmey has now received word from […]
A professional surfer from Australia practiced her craft at a Hawaii beach and managed to catch a wave measuring a record-breaking 43.6 feet tall. Laura Enever, 31, paddled in and rode the massive wave on the Outer Reef, Oahu, and the measurements of the wave were later confirmed by the World Surf League. The wave’s size […]
A Massachusetts man took to the Connecticut River in a hollowed-out giant pumpkin in an attempt to break a world record for paddling. Dave Rothstein of Florence carved his 1,024-pound pumpkin into a makeshift boat and paddled from Deerfield to Holyoke, a distance of more than 40 miles, in an attempt to break the Guinness […]
A Georgia man is attempting to get a Guinness World Records title after harvesting 186 pounds of sweet potatoes from a single plant. David Anderson of Washington County gathered witnesses including University of Georgia Extension agent Rocky Tanner and Washington County Sheriff Joel Cochran to watch as he harvested the tubers from the massive plant on […]
A young trampolinist broke an unusual world record by popping 20 balloons suspended from a rotating pole while doing backward somersaults. Julius Bille, 13, of Frankfort, Germany, put his precision trampolining skills to the test on the set of Guinness World Records’ Italian TV series, Lo Show dei Record. Bille donned plimsoll shoes with pins sticking […]
A Virginia man waiting for a chicken sandwich bought a Powerball ticket and won a $1 million prize. Carlos Gutierrez of Centreville told Virginia Lottery officials he stopped on his way to work to get a chicken sandwich and a coffee from Lee’s Sandwiches in Falls Church. While waiting for his order, Gutierrez spotted a lottery vending machine nearby and […]
A Minnesota woman broke a Guinness World Record by balancing 30 swords on her body in one minute. Erin Hunter, of Edina, said she started learning to balance swords in 2004, when she began taking Middle Eastern dance classes, and over the years she worked the skill of balancing one or two swords on her […]
A pair of Wisconsin brothers led their friends and family in the creation of a massive grilled cheese sandwich measuring 10.9 feet long and 6.25 feet wide. Exodus Chaudhry, 11, and brother Iggy, 10, stars of The Exodus and Iggy Show on YouTube, used a custom-welded pan, more than 300 pounds of dough and 60 pounds of cheese […]
