This is a video of Balu and human Wolfgang Lauenburger setting the Guinness World Record for “most skips by a dog on hind legs in 30 seconds,” with a respectable quicker-than-one-a-second 32 jumps. Not too shabby. Wolfgang says he and Balu trained hard for the record, which I believe, because
Because everyone spends their spare time differently, this is a video following Youtuber DrewBuildsStuff’s quest to set a new record for most consecutive water balloons burst with a single arrow, following the guidelines established by Guinness World Records. The previous record? 38. Can he do it?! You’ll just have to
This is a video tour of South Korea’s Machang Music & Pictures, the only vinyl record factory in the country. In the video, the process in which a master disc is produced and used to press vinyl blanks is documented, which I found most interesting. It always blows my mind
Meet Flossie, a tortoiseshell cat from Orpington, England, who, just ahead of her 27th birthday, has been recognized as the world’s oldest living cat. Not bad, Flossie, but if you plan on taking the oldest cat in the world record you better still have plenty of years left in you,
Because the records you don’t need any special equipment for are the most economical to beat, this is a video of 20-year old Iowa clap master Dalton Meyer setting a new Guinness World Record for most claps in one minute, with a staggering 1,140, beating the previous record of 1,080.
Because driving in reverse is easy if you don’t care what you hit, this is a 60-second documentary (almost 3X the attention span of a normal human) highlighting the record breaking work of Scott Burner (great name), who holds the record for fastest mile in reverse, with a time of
Because a well aimed bow is mightier than the pen and sword combined (that’s just a pen-sword), this is a video of master archer Lars Andersen shooting seven consecutive arrows through a keyhole less than 10mm tall. He uses a historic style bow without nock point, arrow rest, or any
This is a video of Cassie, a pair of robotic legs inspired by those of an ostrich, setting the world record for fastest 100m run by a two-legged robot. Cassie finishes with a time of 24.73-seconds. For reference, the current world record for a human is Usain Bolt’s 9.58 seconds