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Watch: French freediver breaks 393.7-foot record

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Arnaud Jerald broke the record for the deepest dive with bifins at the Vertical Blue competition. The 26-year-old French freediver dive took three minutes and thirty-four seconds. This was the seventh time in Jerald’s career that he had broken the record. A French freediver set a new record for himself when he dove to a … Read more

Chefs make 800 kg sandwich in 3 minutes for world record

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Chefs at a Mexican restaurant made a huge sandwich to honour the country’s many sandwiches. It was 74 metres (242 feet) long and weighed at least 800 kilos (1763.7 pounds). People who were watching could buy a piece for 35 pesos (about $1.50). Chefs at a Mexican restaurant made a huge “torta” with a variety … Read more

England breaks world record with 598 disco dancers

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Camp Bestival in Dorset broke the record for the largest disco dance. 598 people wearing sequined capes danced to Sister Sledge’s “We Are Family” at the festival’s 33-foot disco ball. Money made from the attempt was given to the Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust. When the organisers of a festival in England got almost 600 people … Read more

Armand Duplantis: Sweden breaks post vault world record to win gold

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Sweden’s Armand Duplantis broke his own post vault. World record with a leap of 6.21 meters on Sunday en route. Winning his most memorable gold decoration at the World Championships. Armand Duplantis cleared 6.00m to ensure the title, before he put his focus on his own record of 6.20m set at the World Indoor Championships. … Read more

Sydney McLaughlin breaks 400 meters hurdle world record

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American Sydney McLaughlin delivered one of the best. Track exhibitions ever on Friday by breaking her own 400 meters. World record to come out on top for World Championships gold. Sydney McLaughlin completed well clear of the Netherlands’ Femke Bol (52.27) and U.S. countryman Dalilah Muhammad (53.13). The Olympic champion charged home in 50.68 seconds, … Read more

World Record: 72-year-old sets Pacific coast bike ride across Canada

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A 72-year-old woman set a Guinness World Record while riding her bike from north to south across the United States. Lynnea Salvo finished her trip in San Ysidro, California, 43 days after she started it. She also broke the record for the oldest person to ride a bike across Canada. A 72-year-old woman set a … Read more

World Record: Idaho man breaks 83 matches in 30 seconds

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Idaho man breaks a Guinness World Record. David Rush used only his hands to break 83 matches in one minute. He lined up the broken matches in play-dough to make a fire snake. A person from Idaho broke a Guinness World Record when he used only his hands and breaks 83 matches in one minute. … Read more

Buttler: England have sights set on 500-run mark

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England crushed 498-4 to win by 232 sudden spikes in demand for Friday’s fixture. They obscured their past record of 481 against Australia in 2018. Liam Livingstone scored England’s quickest ODI fifty with 45 over from start of 50th over. Buttler raised his hundred years in only 47 balls, the second-quickest in England history and … Read more

The World-record holder nonuplets celebrate first birthday

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As his nine miracle babies celebrate their first birthday, the father of a world-record brood of nonuplets has spoken about his experience raising them. Last year, Kader Arby, 36, and his Mali-born wife Halima Cisse, 27, set a new world record when Halima went to Casablanca, Morocco, to give birth to nine children at the … Read more

Man walks between two hot air balloons on a rope breaks a world record

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A video of a guy setting a world record by walking barefoot on a rope stretched to two hot air balloons hovering in midair has gone viral on social media. Guinness World Records frequently posts mind-blowing videos on Instagram of people breaking all kinds of bizarre world records. GWR wrote in the caption. “Highest slackline … Read more

World Record: An Idaho man sets by inserting 180 thumbtacks in a minute

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On the Tamron Hall Show, an Idaho man set a new Guinness World Record by putting 180 thumbtacks into a corkboard in one minute. David Rush, who has broken over 200 Guinness World Records to promote STEM education, was invited to go on the Tamron Hall Show in New York to discuss his goal of … Read more

Watch: Girl eats 19 chicken nuggets in 1 minute breaks the world record 

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Leah Shutkever, a competitive eater from the United Kingdom, broke the Guinness World Record by eating 19 chicken nuggets containing 352g of chicken meat in 60 seconds. The Guinness Global Records frequently shares such mind-blowing world records. A British woman just established a new GWR for the most chicken nuggets consumed in one minute. According … Read more

World Record: Man walks 3,257 feet while carrying a lawnmower on his chin

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David Rush set the record by walking 656 feet with a non-powered lawnmower held on his chin, although it was later eclipsed by someone who walked 912 feet. Rush has broken over 200 Guinness World Records to promote STEM education. Read more: World Record: A guinea pig from North Carolina performs antics Rush claimed to … Read more

World Record: A guinea pig from North Carolina performs antics

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A woman from North Carolina claims her pet guinea pig achieved an unofficial Guinness World Record by executing over 14 feats in one minute. Coco, Gwen Ford’s guinea pig, reportedly attempted to break the world record for the most tricks performed by a guinea pig in one minute. Guinness authorities reminded Ford that there is … Read more

Watch: A visitor sets a new world record for poi weaving

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By spinning a set of poi balls 83 times in one minute, an Idaho man set a Guinness World Record. While on vacation in Italy, David Rush, who has broken more than 200 Guinness records to promote STEM education. Read more: World Record: A freediver walks 351 feet underwater He stated intended to break the … Read more

Watch: World record set by doctor’s 3D-printed sculpture

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A doctor from Southern California set a Guinness World Record by assembling a 19-foot-tall 3D-printed sculpture of a human. Dr Vinson Eugene Allen of Gardena claimed to have built the world’s first 3D-printed doctor sculpture for a billboard in Los Angeles promoting his urgent care centres. People informed Allen that the statue might be a … Read more

World Record: An Iraqi man balances 18 eggs on back of his hand

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According to Guinness, Ibrahim Sadeq took on the record in Nasiriyha, Iraq, and equaled the one previously set by Jack Harris of the United Kingdom in May 2020, making him the new co-holder of the record. Sadeq became interested in balancing after watching a video of a man stacking rocks in nature. Sadeq told Guinness, … Read more

Woman sets Guinness World Record by jumping on a rope in high heels

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Guinness World Records’ official shared a video on their Instagram account in which Olga can be seen neatly hopping on the rope while wearing high heels. While some ladies find walking in high heels challenging, this one recently established a new world record. Olga Henry, an athlete, made history when she established a Guinness World Record … Read more

World record: Bird flies nonstop for 8,000 miles to Australia

World record: Bird flies nonstop for 8,000 miles to Australia

A bird has flown nonstop covering 8,000 miles from Alaska to Australia, a bar-tailed godwit has set a new world record. The bar-tailed godwit’s aerodynamic form has been compared to that of a jet fighter, and the epic journey set a new world record. The male bird, which was carrying a small solar-powered satellite tracker, … Read more

Mexico City sets world record for free Wi-Fi hotspots

Mexico City has set a world record for free Wi-Fi access thanks to thousands of public internet access points across the capital, Guinness World Records announced Wednesday. Official adjudicator Carlos Tapia presented the award for the most hotspots — 21,500 — in a single free urban Wi-Fi network to Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum. The … Read more

New Zealand: 17-pound potato was discovered in a ‘feral’ food patch

New Zealand: 17-pound potato was discovered in a 'feral' food patch

A couple from New Zealand said they were cleaning up their vegetable garden when they discovered a gigantic potato that weighed more than 17 pounds and may set a new world record. Colin and Donna Craig-Brown said they weren’t sure what they’d found beneath a few inches of the earth in their Waikato garden at … Read more

World record: A man spins a football for 21.66 seconds on his finger

World record: A man spins a football for 21.66 seconds on his finger

When a guy from British Columbia spun a football on one finger for 21.66 seconds, he set a Guinness World Record. Sandeep Singh Kaila, an Abbotsford resident who previously made headlines by breaking the Guinness World Record for spinning a basketball on a toothbrush, said he decided to attempt his latest record after learning that … Read more

Chinese varsity team sets world record for drone flight time

BEIJING. An unmanned aerial vehicle developed by a team of Chinese university students has broken the world record for drone flight time. The ‘Feng Ru 3-100’ drone made by students from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, flew continuously for 80 hours, 46 minutes and 35 seconds, beating the previous world record of 80 hours, … Read more

New York: World’s longest charcuterie board breaks Guinness World Record

New York: World's longest charcuterie board breaks World Record

When a group of New York foodies put together a 315-foot-long charcuterie board out of meats and cheeses, they set a Guinness World Record. 315 Foodies erected a 315.3-foot charcuterie board at Veterans Memorial Park in Little Falls on Sunday. The finished piece broke the previous Guinness World Record for the longest charcuterie board, which … Read more

Paralysed Kiwi cricket great Chris Cairns faces ‘greatest challenge’

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New Zealand cricket great Chris Cairns Monday said he was “facing possibly the greatest challenge” of his life after being left paralysed following a stroke during a heart operation. The 51-year-old, one of the world’s top all-rounders in the early 2000s, underwent life-saving surgery last month when a tear developed in the lining of a … Read more

Google employee sets a World Record by calculating PI to 3.14 trillion digits

Google employee sets a World Record by calculating PI to 3.14 trillion digits

A Google employee has broken the Guinness World Record for the most digits of pi, just in time for Pi Day on March 14. Emma Haruka Iwao used the tech giant’s massive computational infrastructure to compute the famous figure to 31.4 trillion decimal places, beating the previous record by nearly 9 trillion digits. Pi – … Read more

Ajman Police sets new World Record for forming a longest online human chain

Ajman Police sets new World Record for forming a longest online human chain

The Ajman Police hit headlines on Wednesday after setting a new Guinness World Record for forming the longest online video chain of human beings passing on a handheld device, to thank frontline workers. According to the reports, the record involved 303 participants from 31 nationalities who also sought to raise information among community members on … Read more