This is a video of jump roper Cen Xiaolin setting a new world speed record with an astonishing 228 jumps (technically alternate leg skips) in 30 seconds. That’s 7.6 jumps PER SECOND. Cen has been at it the speed jumping for awhile, and his record 8 years ago was only
This is a clip from BBC Earth and my main man knight Sir David Attenborough highlighting the web-slinging capabilities of Darwin’s bark spider. The spider is capable of blasting a continuous fan of webbing that catches the wind like a sail and can cross a body of water up to
This is a video of 19-year old American figure skater Ilia Malinin at the 2024 World Championships setting a new world record for highest free skate score with a very respectable 227.79, beating fellow American Nathan Chen’s previous 224.92 set at the 2019-20 Grand Prix Final. The routine, which gave
This is a video of concert organist Felix Hell performing a tribute to Johann Sebastian Bach on the largest musical instrument in the world, the Boardwalk Hall Auditorium pipe organ in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The organ contains 33,451 pipes, weighs over 150 tons, and is also the loudest instrument
Combining themes from the two previous posts (world records and food), 70-year old Don Gorske (who looks like a Beatle that wandered into a McDonald’s and never left, eventually becoming manager) has extended his own Most Big Macs Eaten Guinness World Record, stretching the number of burgers he’s consumed to
Canadian children’s book author and illustrator Lulu Lotus recently set the Guinness World Record for loudest nose whistle, with an impressive 44.1dB snoot hooter. That’s about as loud as a bird’s call. In her own words while I go blow my nose (technically pick) so it stops unintentionally whistling when
Seen here looking like a man who takes brushing seriously, this is a video of Georgia dentist Val Kolpakov showing off his Guinness World Record collection of toothpastes. There’s no denying it, dude has a lot of toothpaste. Me? I just have the one crumpled tube of Crest that I’ve
Did you know there’s a viral cheese-pulling trend on TikTok? I did not, that was news to me. Not good news, mind you, but not the worst either. Anyways, Doritos decided they’d jump on the Gen Z bandwagon by setting a world record for world’s longest cheese-pull, with an admittedly