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A North Carolina Education Lottery player said she followed a random urge to play the Monopoly online lottery game — and ended up winning a $1.86 million jackpot. Cleveland resident Barbara Stewart told North Carolina Education Lottery officials she was in bed when she decided to give the game a try on her phone. Something just told me to […]
A California grower’s 2,346-pound pumpkin was dubbed the top gourd at the 2025 Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-off in Half Moon Bay, Calif. Santa Rosa man Brandon Dawson, whose 2,465-pound pumpkin was the runner-up in 2024’s weigh-off, took the top spot at this year’s event. Travis Gienger, who won last year’s contest with a 2,471-pound pumpkin, said […]
Serial record-breaker David Rush teamed up with a longtime collaborator on the sidelines of FOX game show 99 to Beat and recaptured a fist-bumping Guinness World Record. Rush and Jonathan “Hollywood” Hannon, who are both contestants on this season of 99 to Beat, took some time out of filming in London to attempt the Guinness World Record for the most alternate fist […]
A Kentucky man with an annual tradition of going all-out for Halloween decorating is now attempting to clinch a Guinness World Record with his latest set-up. The Cold Spring resident, who dubbed himself Halloween Herm, has been decorating his Village Green Drive home for Halloween for decades, and in recent years he has dubbed the […]
An Australian bodybuilder broke a Guinness World Record that had stood for nearly a decade when she completed 733 pull-ups in one hour. Jade Henderson, 32, averaged more than 12 pull-ups a minute to break the record of 725 that was set by fellow Australian Eva Clarke in 2016. I decided to start training for the pull […]
A Virginia woman cleaning her house found a box of lottery tickets in her closet — and one of them turned out to be a $100,000 winner. Alfreda Hawkins told Virginia Lottery officials she was doing some cleaning around her Richmond home when she found a box in a closet containing some unscratched lottery tickets. She soon discovered […]
A California woman used her love of dance-based video games to break several world records, including the overall longest video game marathon ever — and she’s preparing to attempt it again. Carrie Swidecki, a fourth-grade teacher, said her love of dance games started when she first attempted to play Dance Dance Revolution at an arcade in 2000. […]
An Alabama resident took his facial hair to record-breaking lengths when his beard locks reached a staggering length of 3 feet and 6 inches. Rudolf Martino, who moved to Birmingham from California in 2015, earned the Guinness World Records title for the longest natural beard locks on a living person after growing his facial hair to a length that […]
Animal rescuers in Iowa said a piglet that made a daring leap from the back of a truck on the highway will have a new forever home at a sanctuary. Cedar Rapids Animal Care and Control said on social media that the young pig, dubbed Peppa in honor of the cartoon pig, “decided she was destined for […]
A new mother is going viral after winning a video game tournament in Florida while holding her newborn just five days after giving birth via Caesarean section. The gamer, who goes by the handle Legi0n, entered a Mortal Kombat XL tournament Saturday hosted by Juicy Game Night in Orlando, Fla. Legi0n defeated three other players, including her own husband, while […]
