This English Dad Grew a Towering Sunflower Taller Than His 2-Story House—All...
When your young son asks you to grow a sunflower “as tall as the house” you do what you can. But nobody expected a plant like a magic beanstalk that kept growing and growing. Douglas Smith was forced...
View ArticleMonster Pumpkin Weighing 2,350 Pounds is Crowned Largest Grown in North America
A Minnesota grower drove his gigantic gourd all the way to California to capture first prize at the World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off with a whopping beauty weighing 2,350-pounds. And it’s so...
View ArticleWatch 600 Drones Recreate Van Gogh’s Famous Paintings in Dazzling Starry...
The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh must be one of the most recognizable paintings in Western art. The original—a rich and mysterious whirl of oil on canvas—is on display at MoMa in New York City. But...
View ArticleMidwestern Dad Breaks 31-Year World Record For 1.5 Million Push Ups – All For...
For one Wisconsin father of three, being 45 years old “and not getting any younger” hasn’t stopped him from performing 3,000 pushups while competing in a marathon; dashing off 5,000 more during a...
View ArticleTeen Folds a Thousand Origami Cranes in One Sitting – For Guinness World Record
A schoolgirl didn’t fold under pressure and set a new world record for the fastest ever origami, by making 1,000 paper cranes. 15-year-old Evelyne Chia spent nine hours and 31 minutes creating the neat...
View ArticleFlying Car Completes First-Ever Flight Between Airports –Then Transforms Back...
Let the bells ring out in every direction from Toledo to Tokyo. Flying cars—the vision of transportation from science-fiction writers—may finally be landing in the modern world. In a test flight, a...
View ArticleWatch Filipino Inventor Fly His Hoverboard For 2 Miles, Setting World Record...
A 40-year-old inventor in the Philippines has apparently set a world record for longest flight by a hoverboard. Kyxz Mendiola launched his personal aircraft, called the Koncepto Milenya, from a beach...
View ArticleClever Cockatoos Craft 3-Piece Tool Set to Extract Fruit – Becoming Only 4th...
Truly astonishing behavior has just been recorded in a pair of wild Goffin’s Cockatoos, who like expert bandits, manufactured an entire three-piece set of tools to burgle their way into the pit of a...
View Article100-Year-old Grandma Sets Guinness World Record as a Powerlifter, and...
Reaching the age of 100 in good health and good spirits is an accomplishment in its own right, but training to take home your next weightlifting trophy truly takes the (birthday) cake. At the age of 98...
View ArticleWorld’s Most Premature Baby Defies 1% Survival Odds to Break Guinness Record
This article has been reprinted with permission from Guinness World Records Born in July 2020, exactly one month after the previous world’s most premature baby, Curtis Zy-Keith Means from Alabama, USA,...
View Article19-Year-Old Just Set the Record for the Youngest Woman to Fly Solo Around the...
19-year-old Zara Rutherford has made a grab bag of records after completing a 32,000 mile (52,000km) circumnavigation of the Earth. Landing at Kortrijk-Wevelgem Airport in western Belgium on Thursday,...
View ArticleA Flying Car Just Got Certified as Airworthy to Fly
The world’s first proven flying car just received its airworthiness certificate by the Slovakian Transport Authority. Last June, this car deployed some mechanical wings and took off from a runway in...
View ArticleJonathan the Tortoise Named the World’s Oldest Living Land Animal: 190...
A Seychelles giant tortoise named Jonathan recently was named by the Guinness Book of World Records to be the oldest land animal—at 190 years old. Living on the island of St. Helena’s with other giant...
View ArticleLawyer Smashes World Record Becoming Fastest Female to Row Across the...
A London lawyer has set a new world record for the fastest ever female solo row across the Atlantic in an effort to “show women and girls anything is possible.” Victoria Evans rowed into Barbados on...
View ArticleGardening Dad Just Broke World Record For Growing 1,269 Tomatoes on a Single...
A gardening dad has been named a champion for the second time, after claiming another title for harvesting 1,269 tomatoes from a single stem. Douglas Smith previously hit headlines in 2020 when he grew...
View ArticleUltra Efficient ‘Tandem’ Solar Panels Ditch the Silicon to Absorb More of the...
German scientists have published details of their new solar panel, calling it the world’s most efficient of its type, which uses a wider spectrum of sunlight. Existing solar technologies are made using...
View ArticleFlorida Chihuahua is World’s Oldest Living Dog Setting Guinness Record
A new record for the world’s oldest dog living has been official confirmed in Florida: Born on 9 January, 2001, meet 21-year-old chihuahua TobyKeith. TobyKeith’s owner, Gisela Shore, has been with him...
View ArticleAll-Black Climbing Team Makes History Reaching Top of Everest, Inspiring...
This month, seven members of an all-Black mountain climbing team summited Mount Everest, helped along by eight Sherpa guides. Even though hundreds line up to climb Everest every year, only ten Black...
View ArticleAncient Cypress in Chile May be World’s Oldest Tree, at 5,000 Years Old
In 1993, a cypress tree stump in Chile was confirmed by tree-ring-counting as 3,622 years old—showing the capacity of these slow-growing relatives of sequoia to endure through centuries. However,...
View ArticleThis Plant From a Single Seed is Now 77 Sq-Miles Wide and World’s Largest
Shark Bay, Australia should perhaps consider a name change to Seagrass Bay, since the largest resident isn’t a great white predator, but a single seagrass meadow. After discovering that the whole bay’s...
View Article83-Year-old Sets World Record Sailing Alone Across the Pacific Without Stopping
A Japanese man has once again completed his favorite pastime of sailing across the Pacific Ocean without stopping. The undeterrable Kenichi Horie did it once before when he was 23, and probably didn’t...
View Article5-Year-old’s Book is Published, Earning Her Guinness Record as World’s...
A British girl who released a book has officially become the Guinness World Record holder for world’s youngest published author—at just five years old. Bella J. Dark received the official confirmation...
View Article40 year-old Mom of 3 Becomes First Female Olympian to Finish a Triathlon in...
A 40 year-old mom has entered the history books by becoming the first female Olympian ever to complete a full triathlon in under 8 hours—smashing the world record by over 40 minutes. Two-time Olympic...
View ArticleMechanic Smashes World Record for Most Push-ups in an Hour – A Whopping 3,183...
An Australian mechanic has smashed the world record for most push-ups in an hour—completing a staggering 3,182. Daniel Scali took on the Herculean task in April and managed to surpass the previous...
View Article16-Year Old Becomes the Youngest to Circumnavigate Earth in an Airplane
A 16-year old British boy is nearing the final leg of his five month adventure to become youngest person to fly around the world solo. Mack Rutherford set off on the daredevil mission from an air base...
View ArticleNebraska Man Makes World’s Longest Journey by Pumpkin Boat on 60th Birthday
On the morning of August the 27th, a Nebraska man woke up on his 60th birthday with a single goal—to raft the mighty Missouri in a giant pumpkin. This is not the start to a collaborative work between...
View ArticleTortoise Celebrates its 190th Birthday as the World’s Oldest Land Animal
A tortoise which is the world’s oldest living land animal is celebrating its 190th birthday. Jonathan was born nearly two centuries ago, in the early 1800s, which makes him not only the oldest tortoise...
View ArticleWorld’s Oldest Pen Pals Turn 100, After 84 Years of Transatlantic Letters–And...
The world’s oldest pen pals have both turned 100 years old, and are celebrating 80 years of letters sent across the pond. Geoff Banks from Devon, England, and American Celesta Byrne from New Jersey...
View ArticleFrom Messi to Morocco: 5 Good News Stories From a Memorable World Cup
From Messi’s twilight triumph to bountiful showings of hospitality by the Qatari people, there was plenty to smile about during this year’s World Cup. As the curtain came down on the 2022 FIFA World...
View ArticleCar Makes Record-Breaking 621-Mile Trip on Single Charge Powered by the Sun
An electric car has made a record-breaking 621 mile (1,000km) trip on a single charge powered by the sun. The solar-powered Sunswift 7 averaged nearly 53mph (85kph) in under twelve hours to set a...
View ArticleFirst 2-Story Home to be 3D Printed in the U.S. Reaches for the Sky in Texas
“An enormous printer weighing more than 12 tons is creating what is believed to be the first 3D-printed, two-story home in the United States.” That’s according to a new video from Reuters News,...
View Article‘Brave Bessie’ Gets Her Likeness on New Barbie as Mattel Honors the First...
A brave young Black woman who became a pilot in the 1920s—and even walked on the wings of airplanes—has become the latest hero to be honored in the Barbie doll series featuring ‘Inspiring Women’. Known...
View Article23-Year-Old Rows Solo 3,000 Miles Across Atlantic Setting Race Record for Female
A 23-year-old woman just set the Talisker Challenge record for the fastest solo row across the Atlantic. Departing from the Canary Islands on the 10th of December, Mariam Payne rowed 59 days, 16 hours,...
View ArticleDutch Woman Smashes a World Record Unbroken For 41 Years–While Her Home...
A 41-year-old world record in women’s track and field stands no longer after a young Dutch speed demon smashed it in front of her home crowd. Femke Bol took off at the starting pistol at the Dutch...
View ArticleCompany Makes History With World’s First 3D-Printed Rocket Launch
A private space tech firm will become the first entity to launch a 3D-printed rocket, which is technically the largest 3D-printed object as well. Totally reusable, the Terran 1 will launch today from...
View ArticleShe Reunites Families with Lost Heirlooms for Free–Returning Over 500 Items...
Chelsey Brown likes to trawl flea markets and thrift shops for interesting items, but not for decorations or collections. As an amateur genealogist, she enjoys tracking down the owners or the...
View ArticleUnprecedented Gamma-Ray Burst is ‘The BOAT’ – Brightest of All Time in Human...
On Sunday, Oct. 9, 2022, a pulse of intense radiation swept through the solar system so exceptional that astronomers quickly dubbed it the BOAT—the brightest of all time. The source was a gamma-ray...
View ArticleResearchers Capture Video of Deepest Fish Ever Recorded–Almost 5 Miles Below...
An as-of-yet undescribed species of snailfish was recently recorded swimming about—a mind-boggling 5 miles (8 kilometers) under the surface of the ocean. An unmanned submersible called a lander used a...
View ArticlePaper Airplane Designed by Boeing Engineers Breaks World Record–Nearly Flying...
A duo of third-generation Boeing engineers aimed a little lower than a 757, and designed the world’s best paper airplane. As one would expect from aerospace engineers, the pair of young men knew what...
View ArticleChihuahua Slightly Taller Than a Teacup is Named World’s Shortest Dog
A 2-year-old Chihuahua named Pearl is officially the world’s shortest dog, as confirmed by her vet, and Guinness World Records. Pearl measures 3.59 inches (9.14 cm) in height, meaning she’s shorter...
View ArticleLargest Explosion Ever Seen is Captured by Astronomers: Nothing on this Scale...
The largest explosion ever seen has been captured by astronomers—more than 10 times brighter than any known supernova, and 3 times brighter than the most radiant tidal disruption event, where a star...
View ArticleOriginal Demo Tape That Landed Prince his First Record Contract at 18–Found...
The original demo tape that landed Prince his first record contract is being auctioned. Boston-based RR Auction calls the sale a “stunning revelation for music enthusiasts and Prince fans worldwide.”...
View ArticleDrought-Stricken Italian River Produced World-Record Catfish Caught (and...
A professional Italian fisherman just reeled a 9-foot catfish out of a river that just last year was suffering so badly from Europe’s heatwave that in some places it had dried out almost completely. As...
View ArticleNew Tallest Tree in Asia–a 335-Foot Cypress Shows There’s Plenty Left in the...
China is a big country with big buildings, big cities, big rivers, and a big population. But the nation’s penchant for big isn’t just an artificial one, nature plays along too. If you look up “the...
View ArticleThe World’s Largest 3D Printed Building is a Horse Barn That Can Endure...
The world’s largest 3D-printed building has been completed by Florida-based Printed Farms—a luxury horse barn spanning 10,100 sq. feet, which they claim is almost 50% larger than the previous...
View ArticlePalm Beach County Smashes All-Time Record for Sea Turtle Nests: 21,800 and...
Palm Beach County has already shattered the record for the number of turtle nests recorded during a single nesting season on Juno Beach, with three months of counting still to come. By Sunday, the...
View ArticleMaine Sets Records for Atlantic Herring and Salmon Runs in the Penobscot River
Maine’s rivers are the only ones left in the US where Atlantic salmon can return to spawn, and the most productive of these rivers is having one of its most productive years. After the removal of the...
View ArticleFarmers Show off Mammoth Produce at County Fair Headlined by 1,300 lbs. Pumpkin
At last weekend’s Malvern Autumn Festival in the UK, growers from across the Isles showed off the truly frightening proportions that vegetables can grow to, headlined by massive pumpkins brought in on...
View ArticleWiener Dog Gives Birth to So Many Puppies it Might Be a World Record: ‘She’s...
A dachshund has given birth to what could be a world record litter for her species—11 puppies at one time. Three-year-old Winnie bore the huge brood at home near Leicester, England in September. Also...
View ArticleExplorers Become First Ever to Row 2,000 Miles of the Arctic’s Northwest...
Described as “one of the last great ‘firsts'” the passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific through the Canadian Arctic was, for the first time ever, rowed by an expedition of 3 men and 1 woman. West...
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