12-Year-Old Girl Sets Two New World Records for Singing in 102 Different Languages in 6-Hour Long Concert
Suchetha Satish, a 12-year-old Indian girl living in Dubai, recently shattered two Guinness World Records at the same time by singing songs in 102 different languages during an epic concert that lasted 6 hours and 15 minutes. A seventh grade student at the Indian High School in Dubai, Suchetha only started preparing to break the […]
The World’s Oldest Living Grapevine Has Been Around for Over 400 Years
A 416-year-old wild grapevine in the mountains of eastern Tibet was recently acknowledged by Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest living vine.
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 […]
The World’s Longest Traffic Jam Lasted 12 Days, Stretched for 100 Km
In 2010, thousands of cars came to a standstill along the China National Highway 110, creating the now-famous China National Highway 110 traffic jam, which lasted 12 days and stretched over 100 kilometers. Identifying the longest traffic jam in history is tricky because it depends on the factors considered. For example, according to Guinness World […]
Woman Does 7,079 Pull-Ups in 24 Hours, Almost Double the Previous World Record
A 34-year-old Australian woman smashed the Guinness World Record for the most pull-ups performed by a woman in 24 hours by doing a whopping 7,079 pull-ups. To say Olivia Vinson put the old record for most pull-ups by a woman in 24 hours to shame would be an understatement, considering that the Australian fitness enthusiast […]
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 […]
Meet King Kong, the World’s Tallest Water Buffalo
Standing 185 cm (6 feet and 0.8 inches) tall from hoof to withers, 3-year-old King Kong is the world’s tallest water buffalo. Water buffalos are among the biggest bovine species, but even among them, King Kong, a 3-year-old specimen born on a farm in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, stands out as exceptionally tall. Measuring a whopping […]
The World’s Longest Car Has 26 Wheels and Can Fit Up to 75 Passengers
Built from six 1976 Cadillac El Dorado limousines, The American Dream is over 30 meters long and has enough interior space to fit up to 75 people. It’s not the easiest vehicle to maneuver, though. Originally built in 1986 by renowned car collector and customizer, Jay Ohrbeg, The American Dream measured “only” 18.28 meters (60 […]
Artist Spends a Year Cutting World’s Longest Strip of Paper from Single A4 Sheet
Chinese origami artist Pei Haozheng spent a whole year painstakingly cutting an A4 sheet of paper into a 108-meter-long strip to set a unique world record. Pei, also known as Hotz Pei, is no stranger to Guinness world records. He once folded the most origami flowers made from a single sheet of paper(100), and then […]
World’s Smallest Functional Vacuum Cleaner Is Smaller Than a Fingernail
23-year-old Tapala Nadamuni holds the Guinness Record for the World’s Smallest Functional Vacuum Cleaner, with an electronically-powered suction device smaller than a pinky fingernail (0.65 cm). If you ever find yourself searching for meaning in whatever it is you are aiming towards, remember that someone spent two years of their lives putting together the world’s […]
Man with Amazing Memory Recites 14,000 Digits in Order to Set World Record
An Indian man with an incredible memory recently set a new world record by reciting a whopping 14,000 digits of Euler’s number in just 49 minutes. Deepu V has always had an uncanny memory when it came to numbers. He once set a national record by reciting 2,000 digits of the irrational number pi faster […]
The World’s Oldest Continually Operating Company Has Been Around for Almost 1,500 Years
Founded in the year 578, Japan’s Kongo Gumi construction company is recognized as the oldest continuously operating company in the world. Thousands of companies are founded and liquidated daily around the globe, many of which only operate for a few years, maybe even months. The world’s most valuable companies have only been around for a […]
The World’s Most Expensive Cigar Lighter Is More Expensive Than a Ferrari
Made with 400 grams of solid gold and decorated with 152 sapphires, the Louis XIII Fleur de Parme is recognized as the world’s most expensive cigar lighter. French luxury brand S.T. Dupont started working on the Louis XIII Fleur de Parme cigar lighter at the special request of Steven Hung, a Hong Kong billionaire with […]
The World’s Largest Cashew Tree Covers an Area of Over 8,000 Square Meters
The Pirangi Cashew Tree in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Norte is considered the world’s largest cashew tree. It has a circumference of around 500 meters and covers an area of 8,400 square meters. Legend has it that the Pirangi Cashew Tree was planted in 1888 by a local fisherman who later died at the age […]
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 […]