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You Won't Believe How Far the World's Longest Photo Stretches [Photography]





It seems like England's Olympic athletes aren't the only ones interested in setting world records this summer. Photographer Clare Newton has just been awarded a Guinness World Record for the world's longes...
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This Is the World's Most Expensive Camera [Video]





You're looking at a prototype Leica 35mm film camera, known as the 0-series. It was one of just 25 produced in 1923 for testing, and only 12 of them are known to have survived to this day. That's why it's ...
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Sure Why Not of the Day



The city of St. Louis dedicated the world’s largest chess piece, a king standing 14.5 feet tall and weighing 2,280 lbs., on Monday. The sculpture is located outside the city’s World Chess Hall of Fame.
“This piece ser...
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World's Largest Atlas Needs Two People To Turn Each Page [Books]





So how does the book publishing industry battle back as they watch its market share being slowly nibbled away by e-readers and tablets? Well, by churning out an incredibly massive 6 by 4 1/2 foot world atl...
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You’re Only As Old As You Paraglide of the Day




You’re Only As Old As You Paraglide of the Day: Mary Hardison, a 101-year-old great-great grandmother from Ogden, has set a new world record for Oldest Female to Paraglide Tandem.
The record had been held since 2007 by a 100-year...
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Everybody Needs A Hobby of the Day

To celebrate the start of Gilda’s LaughFest — a comedy festival named after the late Gilda Radner — Some 607 participants gathered in downtown Grand Rapids last Friday to set a new world for the largest gathering of people wearing anima...
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World-Record-Setting Waterskiers of the Day

World-Record-Setting Waterskiers of the Day: A new world record was set off the coast of Strahan, Tasmania, where 145 waterskiers were pulled by the same boat across Macquarie Harbour, successfully maintaining an upright position for a full nautical mile...
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World's Largest NES Controller Is Just As Uncomfortable To Use As the Original [Gaming]





The SNES was the first gaming console with an ergonomically designed controller. In contrast, the original NES's controller was just an uncomfortable rectangular box, which is probably why most people choo...
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Nokia sets Angry Birds world record thanks to 9,000 people in a stadium
With Nokia arguably being the least exciting brand in mobile, the company decided to change that in Malaysia with a gimmick that turned into a world record. File this one under “well-played”, as Nokia got over 2,000 people to interact with one...
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R.I.P. Pusuke, the World’s Oldest Dog


Pusuke, the world’s oldest dog, passed away Monday in his home in Sakura, Japan at the age of 26.
Pusuke was recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest currently-living dog in December of last year. He passed just five minutes ...
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Students Break Electric Car Land Speed Record in a Salty Blur [Video]






And they say electric cars don't go fast. A group of BYU engineering students have built an electric streamliner that peaked at speeds of 175 mph. With that quiet electric motor I'll bet the "whoosh" it ...
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This Connecticut State Record-Breaking Pumpkin Grew in Just 2.5 Months [Watch This]






This record-setting, 1,487-pound pumpkin is the product of one Ken Desrosiers of Broad Brook, Connecticut and, as you can see, grew to that size in just two and a half months. More »

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How a Coffee-Powered Car Crushed a World Landspeed Record [Video]






Car that runs on coffee? Check. Coffee-car that beats landspeed records? Not so check, until now. With this update to the original "Carpuccino," the Teesdale Conservation Volunteers have built a car that...
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Only In Japan – World Record For Most Stairs While Climbed Balancing On Head
Sun Xi Zhong, enters the Guinness World Records for being able to climb a set of 15 pedestals while balanced on his head.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xnq2SopOQh0
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World Record of the Day



World Record of the Day: Erin O’Keefe and Amy Milano set the world’s most conspicuously absent record: Most Tandem Pizza Slice Face Slaps in 15 Seconds.
[h/t: sisfti.]

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Afternoon Snack



Afternoon Snack: This guy just set the record for Most Consecutive Bites Taken Out Of Three Apples In 30 Seconds While Juggling Them (65).
And what have you done lately?
[videogum.]
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BAMF of the Day



BAMF of the Day: 61-year-old International Swimming Hall of Famer Diana Nyad plunged into the chilly waters off the coast of Havana to begin her long-awaited record-setting swim from Cuba to Florida, which is expected to take some 60 hours.
This is Nya...
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World Record of the Day



World Record of the Day: German parallel parking enthusiast Ronny “C-Rock” Wechselberger sets a new world record by sliding into a tight spot that’s 26 centimeters longer than the Volkswagen Polo he’s driving.
As impressive as t...
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World Record of the Day



World Record of the Day: Intrepid blob jumpers in Cham, Switzerland, set a new Guinness-certified World Blob Jump Record with a skyscraper-esque 17-meter bounce.
Whatever you do, keep Lars away from that thing.
[devour.]

Tagged: Blob Jump, Heavywei...
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Big Baby of the Day

Big Baby of the Day: Clocking in at a whopping 16lbs. 1oz., the newborn son of Longview, Texas residents Janet Johnson and Michael Brown was welcomed into the world not three days ago, and may have already set a new state record.
JaMichael Brown outweigh...
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Lights Out

Lights Out: At an H2Ocean-sponsored event hosted by Las Vegas tattoo parlor Inktoxicated Tattoos, Bill “Danger” Robinson and sideshow performer Staysha Randall teamed up to smash the world record for “Most Body Piercings in a Single Sit...
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Life-Size Hot Wheels Track Breaks World Record [Video]






As far as publicity stunts go, this is pretty great: a giganto-sized orange Hot Wheels set. And unlike the ones you played with as a tyke, the car didn't go crashing into a wall, but broke a distance wo...
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Record-Breaking Laser Beam Transfers 26 Terabits Per Second—Or One Library of Congress Every Ten [Lasers]






Researchers in Germany have broken the world record for the fastest data transfer speed over a single fiber optic cable. And at 26 terabits per second, it's fast enough to transfer the entire Library of C...
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Death By Drama of the Day



Death By Drama of the Day: Versatile Hong Kong-based soap opera actor Law Lok-lam must have pissed off a bunch of writers by telling a bunch of soap magazines that he writes a lot of his own lines because five characters he plays on five different show...
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12 Inches Of Beef Perfection of the Day



12 Inches Of Beef Perfection of the Day: At $69 a pop, the white truffle-kissed, foie gras-coated “Serendipity Foot Long Haute Dog” is the world’s most expensive hot dog.
I think I’ll stick with Hebrew National, thank you very m...
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Kid Sets New Rubik’s Cube Record at 6.77 Seconds!
Boy sets new World Record for solving a Rubik’s Cube at an astounding 6.77 seconds.










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WTF World Record: Shake Weight “Hamlet” Soliloquy

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WTF World Record: Shake Weight “Hamlet” Soliloquy
Thomas Anawalt recites Shakespeare’s “To be, or not to be” soliloquy from Hamlet while shaking a Shake Weight in three minutes 28.10 seconds, setting a new world record in the progress.
Why bother just reciting Hamlet when you can mastur...
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Gershon breaks record
Israeli breaks Guinness Record for simultaneous chess gamesPublished:10.22.10, 08:08 / Israel NewsIsraeli chess grandmaster Alik Gershon broke the Guinness World Record for simultaneous chess games Friday morning. Gershon played for hours against 523 ches...
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GM Alik Gershon sets new Guinness World Record
GM Alik Gershon sets new Guinness World Record for simultaneous gamesGershon plays against 523 opponents, wins against 454 Israeli grandmaster Alik Gershon broke the Guinness World Record for simultaneous chess games. Gershon played against 523 chess pl...
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World's Largest Cinema Screen Played Movie From Nokia N8 Phone [Nokia]






Nokia's rolling out the punches for their delayed N8 phone. After filming the world's smallest stop-motion video with it, they played a movie to 1,500 Swedes on the world's largest cinema screen—thr...
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Imagine You and 10,000 of Your Closest Friends Beating the Human Domino World Record [World Record]






10,267 Chinese participants did just that, sitting in a field till it was there turn to topple onto the person behind them. They smashed the old world record set in 2000 by a whole order of magnitude. ...
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