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A physicist who dropped out of post-graduate school to raise her family 75 years ago was awarded an honorary PhD at the age of 98. Rosemary Fowler was studying at the University of Bristol in 1948 when she discovered the kaon particle, but she left academia before earning her doctorate when she married fellow physicist Peter Fowler […]
A Nigerian man shook his backside for 3 hours and 30 minutes to break the Guinness World Record for the longest duration twerking. Babajide Israel Adebanjo, who took on the challenge to raise awareness about depression and the importance of mental health, received word from Guinness World Records that his January dancing marathon had officially earned him […]
A Florida sheriff’s office is reminding residents not to approach bears after onlookers were seen trying to snap selfies with a “depressed” bear at the side of a highway. The Walton County Sheriff’s Office said on social media the bear was spotted late last week on the north side of Highway 98 near County Road 83 in […]
A worker for a New Jersey recycling program climbed into the back of a truck to rescue a kitten that wound up in his waste compactor. Burlington County Regional Recycling Program employee Mark Motta said he was checking on his truck when he discovered an oil-covered kitten trapped the waste compactor. “I shut everything off […]
An Irish man earned his second Guinness World Records title by riding his unicycle the length of Ireland — 308 miles — in 5 days, 5 hours and 23 minutes. Eamonn Keaveney told Guinness World Records the title for the fastest crossing of Ireland by unicycle appealed to him because it “seemed like a perfect mix of daunting and […]
A Maryland Lottery player won a $50,000 jackpot from a Pick 5 drawing just over two years after he won the same amount playing the same game. The Anne Arundel County man told Maryland Lottery officials he visited the Safeway grocery store on Forest Drive in Annapolis and used a friend’s birthday numbers to buy […]
A California town is attempting to gather 10,000 people to break a Guinness World Record for the largest water balloon fight. Splash Fest, organized by nonprofit Balloons over Bullets in Stockton, kicks off at 2 p.m. Saturday, and organizers are hoping to amass at least 10,000 people at the event to throw 209,000 water balloons. […]
Transit officials in California said a stretch of highway was closed for several hours when a truck overturned and spilled its load of tomatoes into the roadway. The California Highway Patrol said the truck overturned onto its side on Interstate 5 in Patterson about 8:05 a.m. Tuesday and lost its load of tomatoes onto the roadway and […]
A reveler enjoying Fourth of July celebrations in Rhode Island ended up jumping into the Providence River to rescue a struggling rabbit. Emily Swift, who was visiting Providence from New York, attended the Fourth of July WaterFire celebration and ended up catching the unusual rescue on camera. Swift’s video, which she posted to TikTok, shows a […]
A group of eight British teenagers took their enthusiasm for public transportation to the extreme and broke a Guinness World Record by riding the London Underground. The teenagers, ages 16-17, visited all 272 London Underground stations with a time of 18 hours, 8 minutes and 13 seconds. The group, who call themselves the The Amersham Ambushers, where […]
