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Slackliner Crosses 472-Foot Highline, Doubles Record
Austrian slackliner Florian Zoller walked a 472-foot highline strung between two moving cable car cabins nearly 500 feet above the Tyrolean Alps, more than doubling the previous record.
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3,156-Pound Pumpkin Breaks World Record in Rhode Island
Ron Wallace's giant pumpkin outweighed a midsize car and became the first ever to cross 3,000 pounds — just a week after a rival record fell in the UK.
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13-Year-Old Breaks Pole Vault World Record 3 Times
Ukrainian pole vaulter Omelyan Herasymchuk broke his own U13 world record three times in a single competition, clearing 4.70 meters in Lviv.
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61-Year-Old Grandmother Sets 5-Hour Plank World Record
DonnaJean Wilde, 61, held an abdominal plank for 5 hours at the World Senior Games — 30 minutes past her own previous world record.
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6-Year-Old Sets Rubik's Cube Record in 4.27 Seconds
Six-year-old Lian Yunzhi of China set a women's world record, averaging 4.27 seconds to solve a Rubik's Cube five times in a row.
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17-Year-Old Sets 200m Breaststroke World Record
Japan's Shin Ohashi swam 2:04.83 at the Asian Games — the fastest 200m breaststroke ever, and a barrier no man had broken before.
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Math Teacher Runs 636 Miles in 6 Days, Sets Record
New Mexico teacher Megan Eckert ran 636.482 miles in six days, breaking her own world record and the U.S. men's mark by more than 30 miles.
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Josh Kerr Runs 3:42.66 to Shatter 27-Year Mile Record
Scottish runner Josh Kerr clocked 3:42.66 at the London Diamond League on July 18, erasing Hicham El Guerrouj's 27-year-old mile world record in front of 60,000 spectators.
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Bodhana Sivanandan, 11, Breaks 38-Year Chess Record
The Harrow schoolgirl defeated a 2628-rated grandmaster in France — becoming the youngest girl ever to beat a 2600+ GM, eclipsing Judit Polgar's record from 1988.
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American Woman Rows 2,400 Miles Solo Across the Pacific
Kelsey Pfendler, 32, rowed solo from Monterey to Hawaii in 43 days — becoming the first American woman and fastest female ever to cross the Pacific alone.
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2026 World Cup Hits 3,000th Goal and Record 6.25M Fans
The 2026 FIFA World Cup has already set two all-time records: the 3,000th goal ever scored in tournament history, and 6.25 million fans attending — the largest in World Cup history.
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Boston Sets Guinness Record for Largest Iced Tea Toast: 549 People
At Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park, 549 people raised glasses at the same moment to set a new Guinness World Record for the largest iced tea toast.
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Aussie Climber Sets New Sea-to-Summit Everest Record in 50 Days
Brisbane mountaineer Oliver Foran cycled, kayaked and hiked from the Bay of Bengal to the summit of Everest in just 50 days — beating a 12-year record by more than two weeks.
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Kenyan Teacher Sets World Record With 45-Hour Nonstop Math Lesson
Menengai High School teacher Fenwick Cyril Maloba taught mathematics for 45 hours straight, smashing the previous Guinness World Record by more than 13 hours.
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Watch: German Plunger Pro Pops 60 Balloons in 30 Seconds for World Record
Serial record-breaker Andre Ortolf has set a Guinness World Record by popping 60 balloons in 30 seconds — using only a humble household plunger.
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Aruban Strongman Pulls a 21,737-Pound Bus With His Neck
Egmond Molina towed a nearly 10-ton bus more than 65 feet using only a rope around his neck, claiming his 10th Guinness World Records title in the process.
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14 Divers Stack 22 Metres Tall Underwater for New Guinness Record
A team of 14 scuba divers held a 22.3-metre vertical human tower underwater off India's Andaman Islands for three minutes — more than doubling the Guinness target and setting a new world record.
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16-Year-Old Zhao Yicheng Sets Speed Climbing World Record at 4.58 Seconds
In his very first senior international start, the Chinese teenager scaled a 15-meter wall faster than anyone in history — and dropped Sam Watson's record in the process.
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7-Year-Old Swims 29 km Across Palk Strait, Sets World Record
Ranchi schoolboy Ishank Singh covered the 29-km stretch from Sri Lanka to India in under 10 hours, becoming the youngest and fastest person ever to swim the Palk Strait.