Jiff the Pomeranian, an alive teddy bear that technically counts as a dog, has set two new landspeed records for running on two legs, according to Guinness World Records. Who's a good boy? Jiff is, Guinness judges confirmed.
Remember this moment. Someday your kids will ask you where you were when you found out that some jackass had run a beer mile—like a regular mile, but with more beer—in under 5 minutes, setting a new world record.
Apparently you can win over $15,000 for growing pumpkins, and we should all be reevaluating our lives.
Meet Zeus, the world's tallest dog, as certified by the Guinness Book of World Records. How tall is Zeus? Zeus measures "44 in (111.8 cm) from foot to withers" (the withers is "the ridge between the shoulder blades of a four-legged mammal").
There are a lot of ridiculous world records out there — some are impressive, some are pointless, some are truly disgusting. Here's one that's all three.
The heartiest of congratulations goes out to Ortrud Kastaun of Essen, Germany, whose collection of 2,053 different clown-related items has qualified her for inclusion in the 2012 Guinness Book of World Records. Even more remarkably, when the lights go down in Ortrud's workshop, her army of inanimate harlequins and…
Meet "Frankie and Louie," a 12-year-old cat with two faces and two names. Guinness World Records says he is the world's longest-living Janus cat. (Fun fact: That is what they call two-faced cats, on account of two-faced Roman god Janus.) Most Janus cats die within hours of their births.
According to Guinness World Records, the largest natural afro in the world has a circumference of 4 feet and 4 inches, and belongs to a 36-year-old social worker from New Orleans. Seated in a room full of disco balls, atop a giant mirrored platform, Aevin Dugas describes the drawbacks of having the world's biggest…
Erin O'Keefe and Amy Milano are the kinds of proactive, idealistic young adults this country needs a few more of: They saw a challenge — in this case, the world record for slapping someone in the face with a slice of pizza — and said: "Challenge, get out of the way! Erin and Amy are here!" Then they slapped each…
Congratulations to Justin Werner, a 21-year-old from Topeka, whose recent tonsillectomy produced a rare and wonderful thing indeed: a pair of the world's largest tonsils, as verified by Guinness.
Brandon Beasley woke up one morning with a dream: to break the world record for the most quarters stuck inside one's belly button. In this video, Beasley acts on his vision by placing 20 of the coins into his stomach.
Librarian Graham Barker has 22.1 grams of belly button lint in jars at his home. (It's all his own; don't worry.) Does this make him one of the grossest people alive, or does it make him a world record holder?
At a clown convention in Mexico City, 700 clowns attempted to break the world record for laughter. They failed, probably because they turned and looked at each other, and the hellish scene of 700 cackling clowns scared them into silence.
Last week, a group of Norwegian chefs broke the record for the world's largest sushi mosaic at the Shanghai World Expo. Here's a time-lapse video of the six-hour process—minus the smell of sushi sitting around for hours.
[About 300 New Yorkers broke the world record for "world's largest strength training workout using resistance bands" in the middle of Seventh Avenue this morning. Image via AP]
Technician Bobby Cleveland got his lawn-mower up to 96 miles per hour, good enough for a new world record. Watching that baby streak across the barren landscape of Utah's Salt Flats is a true thing of beauty.
When two guys battle to see who gets the title of "most unhooked bras" in under a minute, they both win. For the record, Thomas wins by unhooking 56 brassieres—perhaps the most action this man has ever seen?
Later today, 34-year-old Ed Stafford will complete a 4,200 mile journey to become the first person to walk the entire length of the Amazon River. It has taken him two and a half years.
Dutch teen Laura Dekker set sail today for Portugal as she attempts to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world. She's 14, and just won a legal battle against child protection authorities attempting to stop her. [AFP]
With URBD officials standing beside him and 60 seconds on the clock, Jimmy Fallon played his way through 9 (almost 10!) consoles. From Zelda to Halo, he samples our favorite games with hilarious 80s game show-style music in the background.
