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A trio of British siblings who recently celebrated their second birthday have been dubbed the world’s most premature triplets by Guinness World Records. Michaela White of Bristol gave birth to triplets Rubi-Rose, Payton-Jane and Porscha-Mae Hopkins at a gestational age of 22 weeks and 5 days — 121 days before their due date. The Hopkins sisters […]

An 80-year-old Alberta woman who has been regularly donating blood for nearly six decades earned the Guinness World Record for the most whole blood donated (female). Guinness World Records said Josephine Michaluk, 80, began donating blood at age 22 in 1965, and in the years since she has donated a total 203 units of blood. A […]

An Australian reptile wrangler was called out to a Queensland home where a woman found one of the world’s most venomous snakes slithering in her bed. Zachery Richards of Zachery’s Snake and Reptile Relocation posted photos to his business’ Facebook page showing the 6-foot eastern brown snake stretched out on a Maroon woman’s bed. When I arrived, she [the […]

The Guinness World Record holder for the world’s longest beard on a living person broke his own record in Canada when the hair on his chin was measured at a staggering 8 feet and 3 inches long. Sarwan Singh of Surrey, British Columbia, initially earned the record in 2008, when his beard measured 7 feet and […]

A champion skateboarder pulled off a grind out the back of an airplane at more than 9,000 feet to set a new Guinness World Record. Leticia Bufoni, 29, who hails from São Paulo, Brazil, and now lives in Southern California, boarded a C-130 Hercules with her skateboard in Merced, Calif. Bufoni strapped a nearly 20-pound […]

An Idaho man snatched 36 pieces of popcorn out of the air while popping the snack on the stove to break a Guinness World Record. David Rush, who has broken more than 250 Guinness World Records to promote STEM education, popped popcorn in a pan on his stove and used his hands to catch popping pieces out […]

An 82-year-old woman is the world’s oldest female hockey player, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Linda Sinrod, of Lorton, Va., was a figure skater before becoming enamored with hockey at age 35, when a friend asked her if she wanted to try the sport during a visit to a frozen pond. Sinrod played for […]

A Michigan man spent some of his $100 lottery winnings on the last $5 scratch-off ticket in a roll and ended up winning $300,000. The 46-year-old Bay County man told Michigan Lottery officials he had his brush with lottery luck at the Southside Market store on Cass Avenue in Bay City. I was at the store and bought […]

The California man with the world’s longest tongue set a new Guinness World Record for the fastest time to remove five Jenga blocks with the tongue. Nick Stoeberl of Salinas, who earned his first Guinness World Record when his tongue was measured at 3.97 inches, managed to remove five Jenga blocks from a stack in 55.526 seconds. Stoeberl, who […]

A Japanese company earned a Guinness World Record when its employees harvested a giant radish that weighed in at 101 pounds and 1.8 ounces. Manda Fermentation Co., which specializes in supplements and fertilizers made from fermented plants, uses its technology every year to grow giant radishes, Guinness World Records said. The record-keeping organization said the company harvested […]