tagged w/ Guinness World Record
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Utah woman breaks her nails in serious car crash. Nine Inch Nails feels her pain...
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55 cooks took 60 hours to make a 2-ton cheesecake in Mexico City. The Guinness Book of World Records had no previous cheesecake record but will be adding the category to honor Mexico's cake. 20,000 slices were handed out to the people of Mexico City.55 cooks took 60 hours to make a 2-ton cheesecake in Mexico City. The Guinness Book of... more
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Elastic band ball enthusiast shows his balls off, a patient ball building king
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A Frenchman has broken the world record for the longest nonstop speech after talking for 124 hours about Salvador Dali and Catalan culture, amongst other topics. Lluis Colet spoke for an incredible five days and four nights, starting by reciting the works of famous authors and his own writing.
Colet was regaining the record, which he'd previously set in 2004 when he spoke for 48 hours straight, but which was wrested from him recently by an Indian man's 120-hour speech.A Frenchman has broken the world record for the longest nonstop speech after talking... more
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Sarwan Singh set a new Guinness Book Of World Record by having the longest beard.
Singh's beard was measured at 2.36 meters or 7.7 3/4 ft.Sarwan Singh set a new Guinness Book Of World Record by having the longest beard.... more
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New York's Time Square saw the start of a cinematic World Record attempt today, as 6 people attempt to break the world record of continuous movie watching, which currently stands at 120 hours 23 minutes. The attempted record breakers are allowed to eat, drink and stretch as long as they don't take their eyes off the screen, and there're a 10-min toilet-breaks between features, which doesn't sound so bad really, until you realise that it means staying awake and alert, staring at a screen for nearly a week.
Hmm, I wonder what they're gonna be showing. I know some films will pretty much put me to sleep without me even starting off tired..
New York's Time Square saw the start of a cinematic World Record attempt today,... more
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The world's oldest man celebrated his 113th birthday on Thursday. Tomoji Tanabe told reporters at his home in southern Japan about his joyful life and healthy appetite.
"I'm happy," said Tanabe as the local mayor presented him with flowers and a giant tea cup glazed with his name and date of birth. "I'm well. I eat a lot," he added.
Tanabe, recognised by the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest living male last year, eats mostly vegetables and believes the key to longevity is not drinking alcohol. The former civil servant lives with his son, drinks milk every day and has no major illnesses, although he now writes in his diary only once or twice a month. He used to write on a daily basis.
"His favourite food is fried shrimp, but we've heard that he's cut back on oily food," said an official at his hometown of Miyakonojo, about 900 km (560 miles) southwest of Tokyo. "He's said he wants to live for another 10 years, that he doesn't want to die."
The Japanese are among the world's longest-lived people, with the number of those aged 100 or older at a record 36,276, a government report last week showed. Japanese women have topped the world's longevity ranks for 23 years, while men rank third after Iceland and Hong KongThe world's oldest man celebrated his 113th birthday on Thursday. Tomoji Tanabe... more
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"Sounds like a good deal, right? All you have to do is get Firefox 3 during Download Day to help set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours - it’s that easy. We're not asking you to swallow a sword or to balance 30 spoons on your face, although that would be kind of awesome.""Sounds like a good deal, right? All you have to do is get Firefox 3 during... more
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A 13-year-old boy is claiming the world record for blowing balloons with his nose. Using one nostril at a time, Andrew Dahl inflated 213 balloons within an hour Friday in the town's public library. His feat has been submitted for review by Guinness World Records.
His father, Doug Dahl, measured the balloons to make sure each was at least 20 centimeters, about 8 inches, the minimum diameter, and his mother, Wendy Dahl, kept the tally.
**Boy in photo is not the boy who set the record!**
A 13-year-old boy is claiming the world record for blowing balloons with his nose.... more
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This is a short trailer for the upcoming Current TV pod "28 In 4: California," produced by Across The Atlas Films, and featuring music by Boards of Canada.
The team 'Across the Atlas' attempted to set a Guinness World Record by skiing, snowboarding, or snowbiking all 28 California resorts in under 4 days... all while trying to raise $10,000 for charity along the way.
www.acrosstheatlas.com
This is a short trailer for the upcoming Current TV pod "28 In 4:... more
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A 74.6cm (2ft 6in) teenager has been crowned the world's shortest man. He Pingping, 19, has been written into Guinness World Records as the shortest man alive.
Mr He, from Inner Mongolia, China, recently met Bao Xishun – who also hails from Inner Mongolia – but towers over Mr He at 2.41m (7ft 9in).A 74.6cm (2ft 6in) teenager has been crowned the world's shortest man. He... more
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She already has a daughter...and just gave birth to another one that could put her in the Guinness Book of World Records!!She already has a daughter...and just gave birth to another one that could put her in... more
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Lana Elswick has a very special little pet. Meet Boo-Boo, the worlds smallest dog. Born the size of a human thumb Boo-Boo is now a towering four inches tall, which was small enough for the Guinness Book of World Records to pronounce this Chihuahua the smallest full-grown dog ever.Lana Elswick has a very special little pet. Meet Boo-Boo, the worlds smallest dog.... more
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It's a record nobody wants to top.
Pittsburgh volunteer paramedic Matthew McKnight holds the newly-recognized Guinness record for "Greatest Distance Thrown in a Car Accident."
The 2008 Guinness World Records book honors the 29-year-old McKnight for living to tell about being thrown 118 feet after being hit by a car. McKnight was standing along a highway about 15 miles east of Pittsburgh on Oct. 26, 2001, helping victims of a car wreck when he was hit by a car doing 70 mph.It's a record nobody wants to top.
Pittsburgh volunteer paramedic Matthew... more
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A world record event has repeated itself when a cow from the Pingluo County in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of China, gave birth to four calves on Sunday.
A cow from Nanjing, China, set the record having quadruplets in December of 2003 and was entered into the Guinness World Records.
Animal experts only give a 2% to 4% chance for a cow to have twins, so the percentage to have quadruplets is very small.A world record event has repeated itself when a cow from the Pingluo County in the... more
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"To all those people who blurt out 'Wow, you're tall!' as they stare up at George Bell: He knows. nd now, the world will know, too. The lanky, 7-foot-8 Norfolk sheriff's deputy is being recognized Thursday by Guinness World Records as the Tallest Man in the United States."
That's a tall a** cop!"To all those people who blurt out 'Wow, you're tall!' as they... more
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Sonys PS3 has helped set a new Guinness World Record, set by Stanford University's Folding@home project, a distributed computing system utilizing PS3s among other computers, to help scientists study the effects of a process called "protein folding" on a series of serious diseases.Sonys PS3 has helped set a new Guinness World Record, set by Stanford... more
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They have a Guinness World Record for everything!!
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Not bad, but not good enough for the record.
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