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Guinness World Records
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Cape Town Police Hike Breaks The Guinness World Record
28 Oct 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
In the build-up to a busy festive season, Cape Town police officers conquered Table Mountain and broke a world record.
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Wednesday Morning Spice
18 Oct 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
Top FIVE budget-friendly SA cities to live in, Fake food flooding SA’s townships, Pandor kicks off a (very quiet) diplomatic storm, Treasury straddling hiking taxes or borrowing money, and Pepper X is named world’s spiciest.
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Heelflips, Frontside Spins, And Ollies – Athlone Skateboarder Makes History By Breaking Two Guinness World Records
06 Oct 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
A dude from the Cape Flats is proof that rising to the challenge and making the right life choices will eventually help bear fruit.
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Guinness World Records Just Made Elon Musk The Biggest Loser Ever
10 Jan 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
Guinness World Records has just officiated Elon Musk, formerly known as the world’s richest man, as the biggest loser.
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There’s Something Mesmerising About Watching This Domino World Record [Video]
08 Sep 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
This domino display, consisting of an almost impossible amount of dominoes, took nearly a week to assemble and mere minutes to topple down.
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Official New World Record For Biggest Wave Ever Surfed [Video]
25 May 2022 by Kiernan / No Comments
German surfer Sebastian Steudtner is the proud new holder of the Guinness World Record for the biggest wave ever surfed.
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Very Sad News On The Guinness World Record Heaviest Potato Front
18 Mar 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Last year, a couple from New Zealand stumbled upon what appeared to be a record-breaking giant potato growing in their garden.
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Baby Weighing Slightly More Than A Coke Can Breaks Guinness World Record
11 Nov 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
The Guinness World Record for the most premature baby has been broken by an Alabama boy, who shaved 24 hours off the previous record.
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Behold, The World’s Most Expensive French Fries
28 Jul 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
A new Guinness World Record has been awarded for the world’s most expensive French fries, which are sprinkled with edible gold flakes, of course.
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Fearless Ex-Paratrooper Flings Himself Out Of Helicopter Without Parachute [Video]
27 Oct 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
Yesterday, former paratrooper John Bream flung himself out of a helicopter in the name of a good cause.
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Five Of The Weirdest Guinness World Records Set In 2020 [Videos]
11 Aug 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
The year isn’t over yet, but Guinness has already confirmed some pretty wild world records.
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The Guinness World Records For Parallel Parking Are Actually Outrageous [Video]
10 Jul 2020 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I know you reckon your parallel parking skills are top-notch, but you can’t hold a candle to the world’s best.
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New World Record: This Guy’s Planking Will Put You To Shame [Video]
25 Feb 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
A former US Marine has set a new world record by planking for way, way longer than should be physically possible.
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Cape Town Man Breaks Odd World Record In Berlin
07 Oct 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
The list of weird world records is seemingly endless, and one of them now belongs to Cape Town resident Kamil Suleiman.
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10 Of The Weirdest Guinness World Records Set During 2019
29 Jul 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
Every year, people go out of their way to find new ways to break records, even if it means doing something a little ‘out there’.
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Eight Of The Strangest Guinness World Record 2019 Entries [Images+Video]
06 Sep 2018 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Some world records may never be beaten, and some world records leave you wondering how they ever came to be in the first place.
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When The World’s Tallest Horse Met The World’s Smallest Horse
13 Jun 2018 by Nereesha Patel / No Comments
Horses come in different shapes and sizes. When these two record-holding horses came together for the first time, the cameras were waiting.
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Jet-Powered Flying Man Sets World Record [Video]
10 Nov 2017 by Reinhardt / No Comments
If flying around in a jet-pack isn’t enough, how about getting a Guinness World Record for doing it? Watch it here
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Behold – The Longest Pizza In The World
24 Jun 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
We know that Tim Noakes wouldn’t approve but this monster pizza really is a wonderful creation. Look how delighted Susan Boyle was.
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66 People Surfing One Surfboard [Video]
22 Jun 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
In case you are wondering – yes, that would be a new world record. Over to the folks in California to show us how it’s done.
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New World Record For Longest Hoverboard Flight [Video]
25 May 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
All hail the man who has just obliterated a rather futuristic world record – he’s Canadian and he looks like one pretty cool cat.
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Guinness Record For The Longest Ride On A Ferris Wheel Has Been Broken
21 May 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Clinton Shepherd brought the Guinness Record For The Longest Ride On A Ferris Wheel home – click through to find out how.
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The Fastest Man On Two Feet And Two Hands [VIDEO]
19 Nov 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Kenichi Ito is the fastest man on all fours. Ito is a 30-year-old Japanese athlete known to many as “Monkey Man,” and he has just set a new world record for a four-limbed sprint: 100 meters in 17,47 seconds.
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Coulthard Catches Golf ball In Car Going At 180mph [VIDEO]
22 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
In terms of advertising, I would rather watch a race car driver catching little balls in a car going 180 miles an hour, than a dog talking from a bakkie. It’s a little silly, but definitely worth a watch, even if it is just to hear how genuinely excited Coulthard gets when he catches the ball.
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Thai Couple Set Kissing World Record
15 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A Thai couple have broken the Guinness World Record this Valentine’s Day for the longest lip lock yet recorded during the annual Ripley’s Believe It or Not longest kissing competition in the resort town of Pattaya, Thailand.
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Check Out India’s Record-Breaking Gandhi Flash Mob [PICS]
30 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Check out this awesome gallery of young Indian boys marching to commemorate their country’s hero, Mahatma Gandhi, dressed like the man himself!
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“The Simpsons” Searching For Ultimate Fan For 500th Ep. Bash
11 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
To celebrate 500 episodes with Springfield’s most famous family, the producers of ‘The Simpsons’ are also preparing to break a Guinness World Record by challenging the show’s biggest fans to sit down and watch all 500 episodes of the show, back to back.
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New World’s Shortest Man Crowned [PICS]
13 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Shortest Man in the World contest is a really fierce competition. Last year, Khagendra Thapa Magar of Nepal took the crown from Edward Niño Hernández Of Columbia. But his reign was short-lived, as this weekend Junrey Balawing from the Philippines turned 18 – and therefore became a “man”.
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One Tweet Leads To The World’s Highest Dance Party
08 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Whether it’s out of the kindness of their hearts or just good PR, KLM has helped set the record for world’s highest dance party.
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Charlie Sheen WINS Twitter Guinness World Record
04 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Charlie Sheen has just been awarded the Guinness World Record for “Fastest Time to Reach 1 Million Followers on Twitter” Yes, in case you missed it, that was another win. And it only took him 25 hours and 17 minutes.
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