World Records

It wasn't that long ago that yoga was only thought to be practiced by Indian mystics. (Or perhaps little green Jedis.) But now it seems like everybody knows how to do the downward dog. In fact, these days, even 93-year-olds are hitting the yoga mat.

Pro surfer Garrett McNamara recently set a world record for the largest wave ever surfed after catching a gargantuan 78-footer off the coast of Portugal. Dude, gnarly!

A woman from Hartlepool, England is finding that having a 161-word name can be awkward. But the 41-year-old has only her self to blame for any complications stemming from the monster 1,055 letter moniker.

Caviar is generally consumed in very small portions. In fact, the delicacy even has its own tiny spoon so you can enjoy a small amount of the slimy fish eggs. Which is why the idea of a caviar speed-eating contestant is so absurd. But that's exactly what went down in a Moscow restaurant Friday night.

On Thursday, Jiroemon Kimura of Japan, the world's oldest living man and the third oldest man in recorded history, celebrated his 115th birthday. Happy birthday, Jiroemon! (It's anybody's guess how they fit that many candles on a cake.)

How small is Milly, a Chihuahua from Puerto Rico? Answer: very.

The whole fun behind Rube Goldberg machines is seeing a complex series of procedures lead to an ultimately simple task. What you are about to see is what has become the new world record for the largest functional Rube Goldberg machine ever built. The 300-step complex creation is an amazing array of interconnected machines and tools all set out to achieve the ultimate goal: to pop a balloon. Read M

The folks at RecordSetter.com have graced us with videos of people setting unique (and sometimes bizarre) world records before. But this -- a video of a young woman setting a record for the most cheese balls stuffed in one's mouth -- is something we've attempted ourselves just for kicks. (Don't ask. We went to a party college.)

Any bride-to-be looking for high drama at her wedding may want to consider this record-breaking wedding dress featuring a train that's a staggering 1.85 miles long. But there's just one foreseeable problem -- you'd need a gazillion attendants to heft it down the aisle.

It was the largest gathering of humans dressed in green suits anywhere. (Well, outside of St. Patrick's Day, that is.) 836 men, women and children displayed "Turtle power" at Minnesota's Mall of America when they set a new record for the largest gathering of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fans, beating the previous record of 786 set at Rutgers University in 2008. We like to imagine all 836

Takeru Kobayashi, the world famous competitive eater (yes people, there is such a thing) was at SXSW at the behest of GroupMe and RecordSetter.com to attempt the most grilled cheese sandwiches eaten in one minute. Now this is a world record we can get behind.

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.