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A festival in Cyprus took aim at a Guinness World Record by serving up a sheftalia — a traditional sausage kebab — measuring 246 feet long. The St. Lazarus and his Little Friend Savvas festival, an annual charity event honoring St. Lazarus, featured a team of cooks creating the massive kebab in the hopes of […]

A Nebraska man said a fellow customer at a store inspired him to buy the lottery ticket that earned him a $200,000 prize one day before his birthday. Springfield resident Michael Henrichs told Nebraska Lottery officials he was at the B&D Pit Stop on Platteview Roa in Springfield when he saw another customer buying lottery tickets and decided […]

A South Carolina man working in Michigan decided to skip his trip to the casino and instead won $2 million from a scratch-off lottery ticket. Michael Buckner, 58, told Michigan Lottery officials he bought his winning ticket from Gladstone Mobil in Gladstone, about 10 miles northeast of Escanaba in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. I live in South Carolina, but […]

An Indian man showed off his miniature engineering skills by crafting the world’s smallest washing machine, measuring just 1.28 inches by 1.32 inches by 1.52 inches. Guinness World Records confirmed Sebin Saji’s washing machine, which is smaller than a Tamagotchi digital pet, is the smallest in the world. In order to qualify for the record, Saji […]

  A Las Vegas man spent nearly 23 hours going up and down the stairs in his home to break the Guinness World Record for the fastest time to ascend and descend the height of Mount Everest on stairs. Sean Greasley had to climb — and descend — a distance of 29,031 feet and 5.5 inches on […]

Baba Siddique, Maharashtra’s former minister and a leader of Nationalist Congress Party (Ajit Pawar’s faction), has died after being shot at outside his son’s office in Mumbai’s Bandra. According to sources, six shots were fired at Baba Siddique at around 9:30 pm and two people have been taken into custody in connection with the firing. […]