The athlete who took more than a half-century to finish the longest marathon in history
Japan’s first professional marathon runner Shiso Kanakuri started a race at the 1912 Olympic Games that he wouldn’t complete for more than 54 years – we unravel the mystery of what happened during the intervening years
The legendary bauble collector “Nana Baubles” has died at the age of 80
Guinness World Records is saddened to learn of the death of Sylvia Pope aka “Nana Baubles”.
The world’s shortest man breaks a record with the world’s smallest hands
Afshin Ghaderzadeh has smaller hands than any other man alive today.
Snooty, the oldest manatee ever, and everything you need to know about them
The fascinating story behind the cows of the sea that are related to elephants and were once mistaken for mythical marine creatures
The world’s largest rat king: How 32 rats unintentionally bound themselves together
The world’s largest rat king, found in 1828, consisted of 32 rats tied together.
Guinness World Records for the longest time spent spraying water from the mouth
Guinness World Records revealed that Yilma could spray water uninterruptedly from mouth for 56.36 seconds.
Guinness World Records: Most Watermelons Slapped in One Minute
The world of Guinness World Records is known for its incredible feats of human achievement, and a recent video posted on their YouTube channel showcases one such…
Boredom inspired a New Zealand teenager to build a world-record 25-metre Lego train
Alexander Blong smashed the previous world record for the most carriages in a Lego train
The Weeknd is the world’s most popular artist
The Weeknd is statistically the most popular musician on the planet, and it’s not even close.
A fitness enthusiast breaks the pull-up record to raise thousands of dollars for charity
Fitness fanatic Jaxon Italiano raised a whopping amount of cash for charity by doing 8,008 pull ups in 24 hours!