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A Michigan man claimed a $110,000 Fantasy 5 Double Play lottery jackpot for the second time within six months. The 59-year-old Wayne County man told Michigan Lottery officials he bought a ticket for the Feb. 11 Fantasy 5 Double Play drawing at the BP gas station on West 9 Mile Road in Southfield. The man, who previously won a $110,000 […]
The oldest living person, Maria Branyas Morera, is celebrating her 117th birthday Monday in Spain. Morera, who was born March 4, 1907, in San Francisco, has lived in Catalonia, Spain, since she was 8 years old and has been residing at the same nursing home for the past 23 years. Morera was named the oldest living […]
Legoland California attempted a Guinness World Record by gathering 1,273 people in dinosaur costumes for a dance party of prehistoric proportions. The dancing dinos gathered Sunday at the theme park in Carlsbad to attempt the Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of people dressed as dinosaurs. The current record of 252 people was set in Los Angeles […]
A 100-year-old Oklahoma woman is celebrating her 25th birthday Thursday after being born on Leap Day in 1924. Mary Forsythe was recognized by the Centenarians of Oklahoma and the city of Sand Springs issued a proclamation marking her 100th birthday, but Forsythe has only had her Feb. 29 birthday roll around every four years. Forsythe said non-Leap […]
Six pilgrims perished in Mauritius on Sunday during a religious ceremony commemorating a Hindu festival, as confirmed by the police. As reported by AFP, the incident unfolded when a wooden and bamboo cart carrying statues of Hindu gods ignited upon contact with live electrical cables, explained Police Commissioner Anil Kumar Dip during a televised address. […]
A cat who went missing from her South Carolina home was reunited with her owner five years later thanks to the feline’s microchip. The Charleston Animal Society said the cat, named Feya, was brought in by a member of the public who found her wandering loose on Johns Island. Feya’s microchip identified her owner as Alexandra Struthers, […]
Near the Malihabad intersection, just a few kilometres away from Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh, there is the only tree in the world on which more than 300 varieties of mangoes grow. Their colour, shape, size and taste are completely different from each other. Haji Kalim Ullah Khan, a resident of Malihabad, who is […]
An Oregon woman earned a Guinness World Record for her unusually sized tongue, which has a circumference of 5.21 inches. Portland resident Jenny DuVander said she was reading the 2023 Guinness Book of World Records with her son when she saw there was a category for largest tongue circumference. DuVander said she always knew she […]
Maa Dudheshwari Swayambhudham is located at Bhaldam Chatti, Soso turn of Lohardaga Road, Gumla district headquarters. According to beliefs, a stream of milk flows from the Neem tree here. Just by drinking it one gets relief from many serious diseases. Swayambhu Shivalinga is also present here, where people come from far and wide for darshan. […]
An Idaho man on a quest to hold the most concurrent Guinness World Records of anyone in the world gained another title by heading a soccer ball into a target from 52 feet and 5.9 inches away. David Rush, who has broken more than 250 Guinness World Records and currently holds 161 titles, is the […]
