The Guinness World Record for largest display of carved eggs was recently awarded to Chinese artist Ma Chao for the 1,040 intricately carved eggshells he’s produced. The eggs feature characters from the 1986 television series Journey To The West (adapted from Wu Cheng’en’s 16th-century novel of the same name), and

This is a video highlighting the ball-loving life of golden retriever Finley Molloy, who holds the Guinness World Record for most tennis balls held in a dog’s mouth, with a very respectable six. For reference, that’s six more than I can hold, and I’ve tried. Just getting one past my

This is a video highlighting the pinball machine collection of Rob Berk, the current Guinness World Record holder for most pinball machines. The official record is 1,041, but Rob says he’s up to around 1,150 since the count. Damn! Rob has been involved in the pinball community for quite some

This is a Guinness World Record video highlighting the brick collection of Tulsa, Oklahoma great grandfather Clem Reinkemeyer, who has the largest collection of unique bricks in the world, with a respectable 8,882. I feel like he handles them all a little too haphazardly, but they’re his bricks, if he

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 speed jumping for a while, and his record 8 years ago was only 108 jumps,

This is a video of heavy breather Sergey Tsyrulnikov setting the Guinness World Record for most hot water bottles burst in 1 minute via overinflating with breath, with a respectable nine. Of course that’s all the water bottles there were on the table, so thank goodness he didn’t finish them

This is a video from Great Big Story highlighting the life of world record setting speedrunner Bubzia, who speedruns video games while blindfolded. His biggest achievement to date? Completing a 120-star speedrun of Super Mario 64 in a single 11 hour and 22 minute sitting. Good lord. For reference, the

This is a video from the recent X-Games on Buttermilk Mountain in Aspen, Colorado of Italian skier Miro Tabanelli and Japanese snowboarder Hiroto Ogiwara landing the first 2340° spins. Just like the title says, that’s 6.5 rotations, or TRUE STORY: 5.5 more rotations than I completed before breaking my arm.