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A Virginia woman received more than 100 Amazon packages she didn’t order, including headlamps, glue guns and binoculars. Cindy Smith said the boxes recently started showing up at her Prince William County home and soon she had received about 1,000 headlamps, 800 glue guns and dozens of pairs of binoculars. A lot of people told […]
The world is filled with bizarre stories. Now, believe it or not, a man in Assam issued a newspaper advertisement saying that he has lost his death certificate! Just to clarify, a death certificate can only be issued when a person dies. Taking to Twitter, IPS officer Rupin Sharma shared the photo of the advertisement, […]
A Wisconsin woman who has held the Guinness World Record for the largest collection of Winnie the Pooh memorabilia since 2008 said her collection now amounts to 23,632 unique items. Deb Hoffman of Waukesha first earned the record in 2008, when she had 2,891 pieces related to A.A. Milne‘s fictional toy bear, and her record has […]
National Aunt and Uncle Day is, as the name suggests, a day to celebrate a special set of relatives – your Aunts and Uncles. Learn about National Aunt and Uncle Day “Only an aunt can give hugs like a mother, keep secrets like a sister, and share love like a friend.” The amount of aunts […]
A Northern Ireland musician attempted to recapture a Guinness World Record by playing the drums for more than 150 hours. Allister Brown, 45, started his attempt at the record for longest drumming marathon by an individual on July 16, and completed his project Saturday after surpassing his goal of 150 hours. Brown, who has held the […]
An Iowa man seeking the Guinness World Record for the largest pencil collection had his 69,255 unique writing implements tallied at an Iowa museum. Aaron Bartholmey, 36, of Colfax, took his pencil collection to the Colfax Historical Society museum where they were publicly counted one by one in the fashion mandated by Guinness World Records rules. […]
An animal services officer in Texas swam out into a river in his full uniform to rescue a kitten spotted stranded on a floating log. Seguin Animal Services posted a series of photos to Facebook showing Field Supervisor Brendon Moore swimming in the Guadalupe River and carrying the kitten back to shore. Animal services said the kitten […]
National Weather Service personnel in Texas put the record heat wave to good use by baking a batch of cookies on the dashboard of a hot car. The NWS’ office in Midland said in a Facebook post it was about 105 degrees F outside and 190 degrees inside the car when the cookie dough was placed […]
An especially lucky Maryland Lottery player collected his fifth $50,000 Pick 5 prize so far this year. The Maryland Lottery said the 43-year-old Silver Spring man first visited Maryland Lottery headquarters in May to collect a total $200,000 from four identical tickets he purchased for the same Pick 5 drawing. The man returned to lottery headquarters this month when […]
An Idaho man with more than 250 Guinness World Records to his name attempted to break another record by balancing an umbrella on his finger for 3 hours, 46 minutes and 16 seconds. David Rush said some of the largest obstacles to breaking the record for longest duration balancing an umbrella on one finger were overcoming fatigue […]
