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An Idaho man with a serial record-breaking beard earned another title with his facial hair when he decorated his face with 710 multicolored Christmas ornaments. Joel Strasser of Kuna earned the record for most beard baubles in a beard when he managed to affix the 710 ornaments to his facial hair, Guinness World Records announced. Strasser previously set the […]

A California woman was reunited with her missing cat after six years when the feline was brought to a shelter and scanned for a microchip. The Sacramento SPCA said a stray cat was brought to the facility Friday and staff scanned the feline for a microchip. The information on the chip identified the cat as Lily, a […]

A 75-year-old Brazilian man was awarded a Guinness World Record for the most FIFA World Cup tournaments attended by an individual. Daniel Sbruzzi, from Taubaté, São Paulo, attended his first World Cup in Argentine in 1978, and this year’s World Cup in Qatar brought his total tournaments attended to 11. Sbruzzi told Guinness World Records that attending […]

A 20-year-old Iranian man has been dubbed the shortest man living by Guinness World Records after his height was confirmed as 2 feet and 1.6 inches. Afshin Esmaeil Ghaderzadeh, from a village in Bukan County, West Azerbaijan Province, was found to be 2.7 inches shorter than the previous shortest man living, 36-year-old Colombia man Edward “Niño” Hernandez. Ghaderzadeh’s parents […]

An Idaho man with more than 250 Guinness World Records titles to his name broke another record by folding 31 T-shirts in 1 minute. David Rush, who breaks Guinness World Records to promote STEM education, said he decided to take on another T-shirt-related record after previously earning titles for hanging T-shirts in 1 minute and […]

An Australian woman broke a Guinness World Record by running a 26.2-mile marathon distance every day for 107 days — and she plans to continue until she reaches 150. Erchana Murray-Bartlett, 32, began her daily marathon-running routine in August in Cape York, Queensland, and 107 days later, Dec. 3, she broke the Guinness World Record for most […]

A handwritten letter from a young girl led animal care and control officials in California to issue the child a pre-approved license to keep an unusual pet — a unicorn. Los Angeles County Animal Care and Control said in an Instagram post that it received a handwritten letter in the mail from a local girl named Madeline. […]

A Michigan man used his $10 winnings from a scratch-off lottery ticket to buy another ticket in the same game and won a $500,000 jackpot. The 48-year-old Manistee County man told Michigan Lottery officials he bought a The Perfect Gift scratch-off ticket from the Wesco gas station on Cypress Street in Manistee and uncovered a $10 prize. I’ve […]

A 22-year-old Oregon horse with no eyes broke three Guinness World Records: highest free jump by a blind horse, most flying changes by a horse in one minute and fastest time for a blind horse to weave five poles. Morgan Wagner of Corvallis said she was allowed to choose her horse, Endo, from her grandmother’s […]

Firefighters in Iowa were summoned to a doggie “day camp” but arrived to find the fire alarm had accidentally been pulled by a canine camper. Dogwoods Lodge in Grimes said a dog named Birdie had trouble containing her excitement when she arrived for day camp on Friday. She just arrived for day camp and was […]