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A pumpkin farm in England celebrated the 30th anniversary of the animated film The Nightmare Before Christmas with a mosaic measuring 2,081 square feet. Guinness World Records confirmed Sunnyfields Farm in Southampton earned the record for the largest cucurbita mosaic (image) when it arranged more than 10,000 pumpkins and squash into the shape of Jack Skellington singing “Jack’s […]

Rail workers in New York were able to reunite a relieved passenger with her lost backpack containing $12,000 cash. Juliet Barton said she boarded a Long Island Rail Road train in Babylon, transferred trains at Freeport and eventually arrived at the station in Rockville Centre, where she realized she no longer had the bag containing her cash. […]

One of the strangest and most mysterious traditions at New Hampshire’s Plymouth State University made its return with two pumpkins impaled on the spires of a large clock tower. Pumpkins have been placed on the twin spires of Rounds Tower, a large clock tower in the center of campus, every year since the 1970s, except for one […]

A British family’s 14-year-old cat earned a Guinness World Record when her ear-splitting purr was measured at 54.59 decibels. Bella, a cat owned by Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, resident Nicole Spink, was awarded the record for loudest purr by a domestic cat (living) after her sounds were measured by a Guinness World Records adjudicator working with an acoustic engineer. […]

  The Carolina Reaper is no longer the hottest chili pepper in the world, after the same grower unveiled Pepper X. Carolina Reapers average 1.64 million Scoville Heat Units, while Pepper X rates an average 2,693,000 SHU, a team at South Carolina’s Winthrop University determined. Jalapeño peppers typically come in at 3,000 to 8,000 SHU. […]

A Massachusetts great-grandmother is starting her retirement with a bang after winning a $1 million prize from a scratch-off lottery ticket. Susan Maxwell, of Arlington, retired Oct. 1 and came forward to claim her prize on Oct. 6. She won the cash playing the “$15,000,000 Money Maker” scratch ticket game and opted for a single lump-sum payment […]

A Seattle woman with a collection of 5,631 rubber ducks said she originally intended to quit collecting with only seven of the toys. Charlotte Lee, 54, said she bought her first rubber ducks in 1996 to decorate her bathroom. I thought I would quit after I had seven but then friends would come over and […]

A New Zealand man unofficially reclaimed a world record by bungee jumping 941 times in a single day. Mike Heard originally set the record for the most bungee jumps in 24 hours outdoors with a 16-to-32-foot cord in 2017, with 430 jumps, but his record was broken in 2022 by François-Marie Dibon, who completed 765 […]

A Missouri man climbed into a hollowed-out pumpkin he grew himself and paddled 38.4 miles down the Missouri River to break a world record. Steve Kueny of Lebanon carved his 1,208-pound pumpkin into a boat he dubbed Huckle Berry and spent 11 hours paddling from Kansas City, Kan., to Napoleon, Mo. Kueny was accompanied in his journey […]

A Minnesota farmer’s 2,749-pound pumpkin took the top spot at the 50th annual World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-off in Half Moon Bay, Calif., and broke a world record in the process. Travis Gienger claimed his third victory in the California competition with a pumpkin he named Michael Jordan. He previously won in 2022 with a 2,560-pound pumpkin named Maverick and in […]