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April 29 is International Dance Day, so put your dancing shoes on and get ready to step out. Dancing is universal — woven into virtually every society all over the world. Humans simply love dance. It brings us together whether we are the ones on the dance floor or are watching the professional performance of […]
A snowboarder broke a Guinness World Record when he spent 12 hours on the slopes in Maine and traversed nearly 100,000 vertical feet. Myles Silverman made 56 runs on Sugarloaf Mountain’s Narrow Gauge trail to break the Guinness World Record for greatest vertical distance snowboarded in 12 hours. Silverman snowboarded nearly 100,000 vertical feet during the time […]
Members of a student organization at Georgia Tech attempted a Guinness World Record by creating and taking on a 4.2-mile hopscotch course. Members of SEE(k) D(iscomfort), or SEED, a first-year organization aimed at helping students overcome their perceived limitations through unique experiences, drew up plans for a 4.2-mile hopscotch course that would traverse the Atlanta […]
Abilene Ramirez Navarro of Louisburg, N.C., has won $250,000 from a scratch-off lottery ticket and wants to help her father open up a tire shop. Navarro stopped by Bailey’s Store to buy a $5 20X The Cash scratch-off ticket recently on her way to the gym. The 26-year-old dental assistant then scratched off the ticket […]
A South African woman broke her own Guinness World Record by swimming a distance of 295 feet and 3 inches under ice. Amber Fillary, who initially set the record two years ago in Oppsjo, Norway, with a distance of 229 feet and 7.9 inches, broke her own record in Kongsberg, Norway, with a 295-foot, 3-inch swim without […]
Most people have one animal phobia or another, be it a fear of sharks thanks to sensationalist blockbusters or horror of anything that creeps and crawls—but when it comes to which species are worth being afraid of? The answer might surprise you. Ferocious beasts of all shapes and sizes can be downright deadly. Some actively […]
World Malaria Day 2022 will be marked under the theme “Harness innovation to reduce the malaria disease burden and save lives.” No single tool that is available today will solve the problem of malaria. WHO is calling for investments and innovation that bring new vector control approaches, diagnostics, antimalarial medicines and other tools to speed […]
A Polish man broke a Guinness World Record for the Football Manager soccer video game when he made a single game last for 416 seasons and 134 days. Guinness World Records confirmed Pawel Sicinski broke the world record for longest game of Football Manager when he played for more than 400 years of in-game time, ending with a […]
An Iraqi man with a talent for balance broke a Guinness World Record by assembling seven M&M’s into a tower. Ibrahim Sadeq, 29, attempted the feat, which has become an unusually competitive Guinness World Records category, with a Guinness adjudicator on hand in Nasiriyha. Sadeq was able to stack the candies into a tower of seven M&M’s, beating the previous […]
A group of 114 yoga enthusiasts who all hail from different countries came together in Qatar and broke the Guinness World Record for most nationalities in a yoga lesson. The record attempt, organized by the Embassy of India’s Indian Sports Center, brought together 114 yoga practitioners in Doha. The class was led by instructor Nisha […]
