A world record was set recently in Houston, Texas. It wasn't the world's fastest quarter-mile run, the world's largest pumpkin or even the world's heaviest man. It was, however, as stunning to witness: the world's largest senior citizen Wii bowling tournament, as confirmed by Guinness World Records.
A call for Smurfs brought together 1,253 dressed-up-in-blue people in County Monaghan, Ireland. A 4,703-pound cheesecake rolled out in Mexico City. A 7-year-old Michigan boy made a ball of plastic wrap that's 11 feet across.
Gertrude Baines, the world's oldest person, has died in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 115, according to the home where she lived and Guinness World Records said Saturday.
More than 33,000 items of old denim -- jeans, hats and jackets -- were sent to Washington in a recycling effort that will benefit disaster-struck homes, officials said.
More than 2,000 students in Southern California laid 65 miles of pennies on a speedway track Thursday in an attempt to set a world record and help schools in the area.
A football team from southern Italy is hoping for entry into the Guinness World Records because all their players have the same surname, according to a media report.
A world record was set recently in Houston, Texas. It wasn't the world's fastest quarter-mile run, the world's largest pumpkin or even the world's heaviest man. It was, however, as stunning to witness: the world's largest senior citizen Wii bowling tournament, as confirmed by Guinness World Records.
A call for Smurfs brought together 1,253 dressed-up-in-blue people in County Monaghan, Ireland. A 4,703-pound cheesecake rolled out in Mexico City. A 7-year-old Michigan boy made a ball of plastic wrap that's 11 feet across.
Gertrude Baines, the world's oldest person, has died in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 115, according to the home where she lived and Guinness World Records said Saturday.
More than 33,000 items of old denim -- jeans, hats and jackets -- were sent to Washington in a recycling effort that will benefit disaster-struck homes, officials said.
More than 2,000 students in Southern California laid 65 miles of pennies on a speedway track Thursday in an attempt to set a world record and help schools in the area.
A football team from southern Italy is hoping for entry into the Guinness World Records because all their players have the same surname, according to a media report.
Gertrude Baines, a 114-year-old California resident, will likely be crowned the world's oldest woman, according to the organization that keeps track of such honors.
You may want to try this at home. Suresh Joachim (YOH'-kum), of Toronto, and Claudia Wavra (wahv-RA'), of Germany, claim to have broken the world record for continuous movie watching, after seeing 57 films in 123 hours
Magician David Blaine's latest feat of endurance likely will last less than 17 minutes, but he's planning to do it in front of talk show queen Oprah Winfrey -- and her audience of millions
Primatologist Dr. Jatna Supriatna scans the treetops in a national park on the island of Java, looking for gibbons. This area is home to about 150 of the remaining 4,000 Java gibbons. These highly acrobatic creatures are easy prey on the ground and live well above it in the jungle canopy.
Bryan Berg spends much of his life in a house of cards. Literally. Berg, the Guinness World Record-honored "Cardstacker," has devoted his career to building houses of playing cards -- and skyscrapers, domes, cathedrals and stadiums, too.
A Malaysian man nicknamed "King Tooth" has pulled a seven-coach train using a steel rope clenched in his mouth in an attempt to set a new world record for the heaviest weight pulled with teeth.
Driving by the marquee on Crain Highway in Bowie, Md., you won't see anything about the Bowie Baysox players who call nearby Prince George's Stadium home. There's no mention of the evening's pitching matchup or the team's record. Instead, the digital display flashes announcement after announcement -- "FIREWORKS TONIGHT!" "PINK IN THE PARK DAY!" -- letting passers-by know minor league baseball promotional heaven is only a mile away.
Indian police arrested the physician parents of a 15-year-old boy who allegedly carried out a Caesarean section under their supervision in an attempt to set a world record, an official said Monday
Evel Knievel's legendary carcass landed in a heap in the Guinness Book of World Records by dint of his breaking 35 bones, but that geezer spent his days jumping over rows of buses on a motorcycle. Our National Pastime -- a relatively effete sport -- is the home of guys whose injury histories make you wince, but only because you can see the open manhole in their path every time they simply step on the field.
"Keeping up with the Joneses" took a much bigger dimension Friday as hundreds of Joneses from around the globe headed to Cardiff, Wales, to join the ultimate flash mob.
3.142: Pi, a physical constant, expressed in its simplest form, used to define the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. It's famous for having an infinite number of decimal places.
One thousand: The number of pallbearers who carried the coffin of Tongan King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, who was buried Tuesday in an elaborate ceremony in the Polynesian city of Nuku'alofa.
A hotel in Northern Ireland is waiting to hear from Guinness World Records whether a cocktail on its drinks list is the world's most expensive beverage.
The stars of movie blockbuster "The Da Vinci Code" have arrived at the Cannes Film Festival on board a train that broke the world record for the longest nonstop international rail trip.
Campaigners in Cyprus on Sunday said they had created the world's longest chain of bras to raise awareness of breast cancer and win a place in the Guinness Book of Records.
"Probably the most intense and serious beer I have ever tried," enthuses one blogger. "Unique in every possible way," raves another. "You can smell it a mile away! This stuff is psycho!" trumpets a third.
Once upon a time, Harrison Ford was a carpenter. By many accounts he was a good one, a meticulous craftsman much in demand among the filmmaking community -- including (the story goes) George Lucas, who hired him to build cabinets for his house, a role that eventually led to Ford being cast as Han Solo in "Star Wars."
"Courage and stupidity." That's what Steven Spielberg says he was full of when he filmed "Jaws." At 27, he was brave enough to take on Peter Benchley's killer-shark megaseller, but he was too naive to realize that his mechanical man-eater would malfunction to the point where he'd dub it ''the Great White Turd.''
SALEM, Ore. (CNN/Money) - On a recent evening I bought into a limited partnership, flipped a bed and breakfast for a quick profit, tripled my money on "OK4U" pharmaceutical stock. I also got downsized from my teaching job, bought a duplex and had a baby.
The man who became the first person to pilot a privately built craft into space called his flight "almost a religious experience" after his safe landing Monday morning.
"Mommy loves you," cooed Charlotte (Kristin Davis) in a recent episode of "Sex and the City." She was not referring to her child, but to her dog, Elizabeth Taylor.
"Mommy loves you," cooed Charlotte (Kristin Davis) in a recent episode of "Sex and the City." She was not referring to her child, but to her dog, Elizabeth Taylor.
Don't be a fashion victim. Following the in crowd to the usual summer watering holes (the Hamptons, Santa Fe) means wasting precious vacation days sitting in traffic or standing in line for ice cre...
TINIEST TV The world's smallest color television fits in the palm of your hand, making it perfect for footloose (or surreptitious) viewing. Casio's CV-1, slated for a spot in the next Guinness Book...
ALCOHOL-FREE MOUTHWASH Most mouthwash contains 14% to 27% alcohol, which makes it doubly risky. Some research links extensive use of mouthwash with alcohol to oral cancer, and kids find the brightl...
He's young, he's personable -- and he's the worst thing that's happened to pigs in Germany since sauerkraut. Meet Jurgen Bohn, 32, economics minister for Thuringen, one of the most economically des...
You receive a letter from a business associate appealing to your charitable instincts: ''Craig Shergold, a 7-year-old boy suffering from terminal cancer, wants to be included in the Guinness Book o...
TIME-RELEASE WATER Going on vacation doesn't have to mean returning to dead plants. DriWater Inc. of Sebastopol, California, offers a time-release watering system in two sizes: seven-ounce cups for...
THE WORLD'S SMALLEST FAX Compact enough to be slated for inclusion in an upcoming edition of the Guinness Book of Records, Ricoh Corp.'s PF-1 facsimile machine measures 11 by 7 inches -- it fits on...
When pollsters quizzed 600 Soviets, Czechs, Poles, Yugoslavs, East Germans, and Hungarians to test their familiarity with Western products, only four -- three Poles and a Russian -- professed unfam...
A shadow crossed the saturnine countenance of Keeping Up's senior editor for social policy. Groaning loudly, he flung the New York Times editorial page to the floor, stormed across the room to his ...
HIGH-TECH BOOMERANG Alan Adler, an inventor and lecturer in engineering at Stanford University, improved on the Frisbee five years ago by creating the Aerobie flying ring. It won a place in the Gui...
Taxes, by nature, are complicated and sneaky, but this one is ridiculous. If you have worked for 20 years or more for a company with generous benefits and particularly if you are nearing retirement...
Louis Rukeyser, William Buckley, Charles Schwab, and Jack Kemp all appeared, for fees that ranged up to $15,000 a speaker. It was the 14th annual investment seminar put on by James Ulysses Blanchar...
In case you haven't heard -- and if you haven't you may qualify for The Guinness Book of World Records -- IBM is due to unveil a new line of personal computers in the first week of April. Anticipat...
Rock singer Madonna's garbage-can garb and pouty red lips travel well. Mitsubishi Electric paid a reported $650,000 for the right to use fragments of her Virgin Tour rock video in a Japanese TV ad ...
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