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The California woman with the world’s longest tongue — 3.8 inches — showed off some of the tricks she can perform with her massive mouth muscle, including removing Jenga blocks. Chanel Tapper, 34, who has held the Guinness World Record for the longest tongue (female) since 2010, said her tongue, which measures 3.8 inches from the tip […]
A silver Maine coon cat from Minnesota was awarded a Guinness World Record after his tail was measured at 18.5 inches long. Amanda Cameron said her family’s 2-year-old cat, Mr. Pugsley Addams, has always had a long tail, and the subject even came up during his first visit to the vet. Cameron said the veterinarian […]
An Australian father and son took to the sky in a glider and broke a Guinness World Record by performing 45 consecutive inside loops. David Scutchings said he decided he wanted to go for a world record as he approached his 50th birthday, so he recruited his son, Max, 16, to join him in a twin-seat DG-1000 […]
A full-grown goat standing at just 1 foot, 3 inches tall has been dubbed the shortest living goat in the world by Guinness World Records. Karumbi, a 4-year-old female black pygmy goat, belongs to Kerala, India, farmer Peter Lenu, who said he hadn’t considered her diminutive stature could be record-breaking until a guest remarked that his pygmy […]
An Idaho man broke a Guinness World Record — and a sign at the organization’s headquarters — by completing 38 behind-the-back basketball passes in 30 seconds. David Rush, who holds the most concurrent Guinness World Records, attempted the record for the most behind-the-back passes off a wall in 30 seconds during a visit to Guinness World Records […]
Police in South Carolina rounded up an escaped kangaroo, which turned out to have been released by a mischievous goat. The Horry County Police Department said on social media that the 4th Precinct Patrol Division responded to a neighborhood where a kangaroo was seen on the loose. The officers “returned this pouch potato pet home,” the […]
A group of Georgia men broke a Guinness World Record by playing a continuous basketball game for 121 hours and 3 minutes. The men, members of the Atlanta-based nonprofit Men Opposing Sex Trafficking, or MOST, completed their game at 10 a.m. Friday in the gym at Landmark Christian School in Fairburn. The 23 players ranged in age […]
A German city broke a Guinness World Record when it hosted a parade that featured some 900 dachshunds or more. Regensburg, home of the dachshund-themed Dackelmuseum, hosted the world’s largest dachshund dog walk when the Dackelparade featured at least 897 wiener dogs walking with their owners. Some counts indicated the number may have been as high as […]
An Ontario woman was reunited with her beloved pet cat 7 years and 4 months after he went missing, thanks to the animal’s microchip. The Windsor/Essex Humane Society said on social media that the cat, named Julio, went missing in November 2017. The shelter said Julio “somehow managed to avoid getting caught” despite being microchipped and his […]
Serial Guinness World Record-breaker David Rush may have created a new title category by juggling in all 63 U.S. national parks. Rush, who holds the most concurrent Guinness World Records, visited all 63 U.S. national parks with his family over the course of five years, and at each park he took some time to film himself juggling. […]
