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Serial Guinness World Record-breaker David Rush covered his head in shaving cream and bounced table tennis balls to earn his 171st concurrently held title. Rush, who previously broke the record for most table tennis balls bounced and caught in shaving foam on the head in 30 seconds (team of two) multiple times, took on the individual version […]

An Indiana 8-year-old whose drone footage earned her an award at the AZDroneFest International Film Festival earned a Guinness World Record as the world’s youngest drone videographer. Louisa Royer, an Evansville Day School third-grader, brought her drone along on trips to Europe, Japan, Australia and South Korea, and her teacher encouraged her to submit her footage to […]

A 6-year-old Holstein steer from Oregon has been officially named the tallest in the world at a height of 6 feet and 4.5 inches. Misty Moore, founder and operator of the Welcome Home Animal Sanctuary in Creswell, said 6-year-old steer Romeo has lived at the facility since he was rescued from a veal crate at […]

A Nigerian wigmaker added a second Guinness World Record to her resume when she stitched a hairpiece that measures almost 12 feet wide. Helen Williams, 31, who previously earned the Guinness World Record for the longest handmade wig at 1,152 feet and 5 inches, took on the challenge of creating the world’s widest wig. Williams spent one month […]

  A 95-year-old retired seamstress was reunited with a sculpture of her likeness that was thought lost nearly 40 years after her granddaughter tracked the artwork down online. Italian immigrant Maria Pulsone was chosen by her New York employer, Kozinn & Sons Tailors, to be the subject of a 51-inch sculpture to adorn the business’ lobby four […]

Serial Guinness World Record-breaker David Rush recaptured one of his former titles by snapping 110 pencils in one minute. Rush, whose goal is to hold the most concurrent Guinness World Records titles, originally held the record for most pencils snapped in one minute in 2019, when he broke 98 writing implements in the allotted time. The record […]

An Indiana couple earned a Guinness World Record for their collection of 2,022 jigsaw puzzles. Carmel resident John Walczak and his wife, Kyle, started collecting jigsaw puzzles in 2019, and they soon found themselves addicted to buying, solving, selling and trading the puzzles. We did that first one and it was fun, so we decided […]

Serial record-breaker David Rush recaptured one of his lost Guinness World Records titles by inserting 243 thumbtacks into a cork board in one minute. Rush, who had held the record twice previously, aimed to break the record of 191 tacks in one minute, which was set by fellow serial record-breaker Andre Ortolf. The latest attempt saw Rush […]

An 83-year-old woman became Howard University’s oldest-ever gradate when she walked across the stage to receive her doctoral degree in divinity. Marie Fowler, who previously earned a bachelor’s degree and two master’s degrees from the Maple Springs Baptist Bible College and Seminary, said she initially did not think she would make it all the way […]

A British woman followed in her father’s footsteps and broke a Guinness World Record by cleaning three office windows in 16.13 seconds. Aliscia Burrows, 33, cleaned the three 45-inch-by-45-inch windows while competing in the Manchester Cleaning Show and ended up besting the record for fastest window cleaner (female) by .15 seconds. Burrows doesn’t work as a window […]