Grossness Alert! Man Sets Bizarre World Record for Most Eyelid Flips in 30 Seconds
New York city man Dennis C. can call himself a world record holder after he was able to flip his eyelids inside out 30 times in 30 seconds. Nasty!
New York city man Dennis C. can call himself a world record holder after he was able to flip his eyelids inside out 30 times in 30 seconds. Nasty!
Considering how often new world records are set these days, people are now trying to find the most obscure of challenges to get some attention. It worked for New Orleans recently, when 850 people volunteered to break the Guinness World Record for the largest number of people taking part in human dominoes.
While some women observed the centuries-old tradition of proposing to their men on Leap Day, an elderly couple used the occasion to tie the knot -- and it seems to have landed them in the record books.
The world of paper-craft aviation has a couple new heroes now that former quarterback Joe Ayoob has shattered the world record for paper airplane distance, throwing John Collins' incredible design. The previous record, held by Stephen Kreiger, thrown back in 2003 was 207 feet and was officially beaten on February 26th, 2012 with a bar-raising distance of 226 feet and 10 inches.
On Sunday, an official from Guinness World Records named a 72-year-old Nepalese man the shortest man alive and the shortest person ever to be recorded by the publication. He was presented with two certificates to commemorate these achievements.
In a move guaranteed to make you hungry for breakfast food, Australian chef Andy Wrobel recently broke the Guinness world record for the tallest stack of pancakes at 76 centimeters (almost 2 1/2 feet). Yum! Please pass the syrup.
Japan has some crazy shows, but their Guinness World Records TV series is somehow the craziest. You think we're kidding, but in one episode a man named Tomoharu Shoji sets a world record by crushing 43 nuts in one minute... Oh, yeah, and he did it just by using his butt.
Two tongues enter, and only one tongue leaves with the world record for the longest tongue.
Edith Ritchie and Evelyn Middleton, of Aberdeen, Scotland, both turned 102 on November 15th of last year. Normally that's a cause for celebration in of itself, but it's an especially big deal because it means the twins are now officially world record holders, according to Guinness.
Uncle Chichi, who was adopted as a rescue dog in Charleston, SC back in 1988, has just died in New York City after a bout with cancer.