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Bobi’s owner noted that his four-legged friend, who only eats human food, was served up local meats and fish, while entertainment was provided by a dance troupe. In the aftermath of getting named the oldest living dog ever in February, Bobi’s owner said the dog has become a local celebrity, with worldwide fans traveling to Portugal […]
An Australian man has earned a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records after cranking out 3,206 push-ups in one hour. As reported by Guinness, Lucas Helmke, a 33-year-old father from Brisbane, says he trained for two years in an effort to break the previous record, which was set by another Aussie, Daniel Scali, […]
The Weeknd, certainly no stranger to breaking records, has now been determined to be “statistically the most popular musician on the planet.” That’s the word straight from the folks at Guinness World Records, which announced two new titles held by the singer on Monday. Specifically, he’s now added the distinctions of having the most monthly listeners on […]
Capping off another big week for dogs is word from Guinness World Records that a good boy from Portugal has smashed a record to become the oldest dog ever. Indeed, as announced on Thursday, a 30-year-old dog by the name of Bobi has been formally distinguished as the oldest living dog. In addition to that […]
A Welsh man set a new Guinness World Record for most pubs visited by a single individual in a span of 24 hours. On Feb. 5, Gareth Murphy drank at 56 different pubs in Cardiff City Centre, breaking the previous record held by Matt Ellis from England just last year. Murphy consumed 8.6 pints of orange juice, five […]
A man in Wisconsin, who holds the Guinness World Record for most Big Macs eaten in a lifetime, returned to the location where it all began 50 years ago. On May 17, 1972, Donald Gorske drove to his local McDonald’s in Fond du Lac after buying a car off his father, per FDL Reporter. “In that […]
A 100-year-old Brazilian man has set the Guinness World Record for the longest tenure at the same company, after working for a textile firm for 84 years. Guinness World Records reports the record was verified on January 6. Walter Orthmann, who turned 100 on April 19, started working at ReneauxView, previously called Industrias Renaux S.A., when he was […]
Kane Tanaka, a Japanese woman who in 2019 was recognized by the Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest person, has died at the age of 119, CBS News reports. Tanaka, who was born on January 2, 1903, in the southwestern Fukuoka region of Japan, passed away last Tuesday, according to a statement released by […]
Saturnino de la Fuente García, who was named the world’s oldest man by Guinness World Records in September of 2021, has died at the age of 112, according to Guinness. De la Fuente García reportedly died at his home in León, a city in northwest Spain. He was born Feb. 11, 1909, and lived to be 112 years and 341 […]
After being given 0% chance of survival, the newly declared world’s most premature baby has celebrated his first birthday, according to Guinness World Records. Born weighing less than a pound—and a tenth of the size of the average newborn—Richard Scott William Hutchinson entered the world five months prematurely in 2020, and he was tiny enough to fit […]
