Number of View: 371One world record and 287 feet wasn’t enough for Ryan Capes. Capes broke the world record for the longest ramp-to-ramp jump on a motorcycle twice on Saturday night at the Grand Sierra Resort and Casino. After breaking the record with a jump of 287 feet, Capes decided to go for it again, [...]
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Number of View: 347You’d think an attempt to break the world record for people dancing in robotic unison would surely have closet sci-fi fans rushing for the dancefloor. But in reality, organisers hoping to pull 1,000 people to the University of Melbourne to cut some robot moves on Tuesday struggled for numbers. The attempt to [...]
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Number of View: 789Miss Thompson, who owns a farm in Tupperville, Ontario, measured 10-year-old Poe at 20.2 hands – or 80.8 inches. The current world record holder, Remington, from Princeton in Texas, measures a mere 80 inches. Miss Thompson, herself just 5ft 3in, said: “We want to get the Guinness guys here as soon as [...]
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Number of View: 585An Indonesian woman has given birth to the heaviest baby ever born in the country, a boy weighing in at an eye-watering 19lbs. We take a look at some of the other extreme sizes and shapes the human body can reach. Heaviest baby ever Sadly, the heaviest baby ever born, in January [...]
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Number of View: 446A bottle of spirit valued at over $2 million was revealed to the world last night. Chambord, the French black raspberry liqueur and leading bespoke jeweller Donald Edge have joined forces to create the ultimate luxury liqueur – a diamond, pearl and gold Chambord Royal orb bottle. The bottle is believed to [...]
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Number of View: 544Colin Furze, 29, spent two months creating the incredible 46ft motorbike, which can travel at speeds of up to 30mph. He used two 50cc Honda Sky mopeds which he extended using pieces of aluminium. “You can ride it like a normal motorbike but steering is a bit of a problem as it [...]
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Number of View: 224Few people who watched the BBC documentary The Man Who Cycled the World last summer would dream of emulating its star. On his way to smashing the world record for circumnavigating the globe on a bike, Mark Beaumont crashed into a donkey in Pakistan, was mugged in Louisiana, and endured nights locked [...]
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Number of View: 273Stuart Ridley does nothing by halves. The 32-year-old Lower Hutt man is so passionate about tattoos he has plastered most of his body with 36 dragons. Now “Tattoo Stu”, as he calls himself, is trying to break the world record for the longest stint of tenpin bowling with more than 100 hours [...]
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Number of View: 257THE ancient tradition of competitive gooseberry growing has been rocked by one of the biggest battles in its 300-year history. A 73-year-old amateur gardener from Whitby is attempting to wrench the world title for the planet’s biggest gooseberry from a professional grower in Cheshire. But a breakaway system of berry measuring in [...]
Number of View: 494A host of record breakers including the world’s tallest man and the biggest burger ever sold have been unveiled at an event in London. The burger weighs in at more than 13st and sells for 499 dollars (£302) at Mallie’s Sports Grill and Bar in Southgate, Michigan, US, according to the Guinness [...]
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Number of View: 338It’s amazing that for 77 years bass anglers have been trying to beat the catch of a 22-pound, 4-ounce bass made by George Perry on June 2, 1932, in Georgia’s Montgomery Lake–and then somebody comes along and ties the record. Japan’s Manabu Kurita is that angler. He made his catch on July [...]
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Number of View: 1063The world’s new tallest man, measuring two meters 46.5 centimeters (eight feet one inch), said he was looking for love as he was presented by Guinness World Records in London on Wednesday. Sultan Kosen, 26, blotted out the iconic Tower Bridge as he posed for photographs on the banks of the River [...]
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Number of View: 140Premium oat cereal brand Mornflake is gearing up to ‘porridge season’ this Autumn by proudly sponsoring the Manchester finale leg of the world premiere tour of Porridge, the stage show of the much-loved sitcom. The theatre production is scripted by the original creators Dick Clement and Ian Le Frenais and produced by [...]
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Number of View: 209A TINY Scotch whisky distillery has made the Guinness Book of Records after producing the world’s largest bottle of whisky. The massive bottle of single malt was filled by hand with105 litres of 14-year-old Tomintoul Speyside Glenlivet Scotch. And when full, the giant five foot container holds the equivalent of 150 standard [...]
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Number of View: 713Qatar bagged yet another global first with the largest parade of Karwa buses, organised by Mowasalat, the public transport company, rolling into the Guinness World Records yesterday. A 4.8km-long convoy of 325 Karwa school buses travelled a stretch of 5km on the Shahaniya-Dukhan highway, some 56km from Doha, breaking the existing record [...]
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