Woman Spends 70 Days Counting Out Loud to 1,070,000, Breaks 18-Year-Old Record
A Nigerian woman set a new Guinness World Record for the highest number ever counted out loud after spending 70 days counting to 1,070,000.
Teen Paper Plane Enthusiasts Break 2 Long-Standing World Records in Under Two Months
A team of teenage paper plane enthusiasts from China managed to set new world records for the longest distance and longest flight time for a paper plane.
Dubai Coffee Shop Sets New Record for World’s Most Expensive Cup of Coffee
An Emirati coffee shop in Dubai recently set a new world record for the most expensive cup of coffee ever served, a whopping 2,500 dirhams ($680). Roasters, a posh coffee shop with four branches across Dubai and 11 branches across the UAE, is the new Guinness World Record holder for ‘the most expensive cup of […]
World’s Smallest Park Measures Only 0.24 Square Meters
A tiny park roughly the size of a newspaper in the Japanese town of Nagaizumi currently holds the Guinness Record for ‘world’s smallest park’. A decade ago, we wrote about Mill Ends Park, the former world’s smallest park. At just two meters in diameter, it only had room for one tree and a few tiny […]
Kinmemai Premium – The World’s Most Expensive Rice
Kinmemai Premium is a selection of hand-picked artisanal rice that holds the Guinness World Record for the world’s most expensive rice ($109 per kilogram). Rice is one of the most nutritious yet affordable foods on Earth, but if you’re looking for an exceptional selection of some of the world’s best rice varieties, look no further […]
World’s Longest Rideable Bicycle Is Over 55 Meters Long
Designed and built by eight Dutch engineers, the world’s longest rideable bicycle is 180 feet long (55.16 meters), roughly the same length as four double-decker buses. 39-year-old Ivan Schalk had been thinking about building the world’s longest bicycle since reading about it in a Guinness Book of Records when he was a child, but he […]
World’s Luckiest Man Grows 63-Leaf Clover
45-year-old Yoshiharu Watanabe can rightfully consider himself the world’s luckiest man after setting a new Guinness Record by growing a clover with 63 individual leaves. What is luckier than a four-leaf clover? Well, a five-leaf clover, of course. By that logic, the more leaves a clover has, the more luck it brings, so Yoshiharu Watanabe […]
The World’s Heaviest Rideable Motorcycle Is Powered by a Tank Engine
Powered by a Soviet tank engine and weighing over 5 tons, the Panzerbike is by far the world’s heaviest rideable motorcycle. The story of the world’s heaviest motorcycle can be traced back to 2003. Brothers Tilo and Wilfried Niebel of the Harzer Bike motorcycle shop in Zilly, Germany, were in Halberstadt where a former Red […]
German Student Creates the World’s Fastest Toy Car
A German engineering student spent 10 months modifying a toy car and turning it into an extremely fast vehicle capable of reaching speeds of up to 92.24 mph (148 km/h). 31-year-old Marcel Paul has always been fascinated by Bobby Cars, a type of toy car that was invented to help children learn to walk but […]
The Tale of Frank Hayes, the Only Jockey to Win a Horse Race While Dead
Frank Hayes is believed to be the only jockey in history to win an official horse race while dead. He suffered a heart attack while competing at New York’s Belmont Park in 1923. According to Frank’s mother, the young stable boy and apprentice jockey had always been fond of hoses and dreamed of one day […]
Woman Attempts Record-Breaking 127-Hour Sing-A-Thon
Ghanaian personality Afua Asantewaa Owusu Aduonum recently attempted to get her name into the Guinness Book of Records by attempting to sing continuously for 126 hours and 52 minutes. Last month, women’s rights advocate, journalist, and event organizer Afua Asantewaa Owusu Aduonum tried to beat a world record that had been standing for over a […]
Man Sets New Record for the Largest Nasal Flesh Tunnel
Colton Pifer currently holds the Guinness World Record for the world’s largest nasal septum flesh tunnel – a giant hole with a diameter of 2.6 centimeters. Colton was 18 years old when he first decided to get his nasal septum pierced. It was a routine procedure that involved the use of a 16-gauge needle and […]
Gigantic Bovine Sets Guinness Record for World’s Tallest Steer
Tommy, a 13-year-old Brown Swiss from Cheshire, in Massachusets, was recently crowned the world’s tallest living steer, measuring an impressive 1.87m(6ft 1in). Tommy the steer has been living with the Balawender family on their farm in Cheshire since he was just one day old, after being bought for just about $10. It’s safe to say […]
Chinese Engineers Once Moved a 30,000-Tonne Bus Terminal with Hundreds of Hydraulic Jacks
Chinese engineers once set a Guinness World Record After Rotating a 30,000-tonne bus terminal in Xiamen 288 meters by using hundreds of hydraulic jacks and rolling tracks. The Houxi Long Distance Bus Station is situated in the Jimei District of Xiamen, China’s Fujian Province. Four years ago, local authorities decided to move one of its […]
Man Gets Daughter’s Name Tattooed on His Body 667 Times, Sets Guinness Record
A UK man has set a new world record for the most tattoos of the same name on the body after having his daughter’s name tattooed a whopping 667 times. Mark Owen Evans originally got his name mentioned in the Guinness Book of Records in 2017, when he was featured for having his daughter’s name […]