World Records

Hong Kong, China – April 12, 2017 – The 59.60-carat pink diamond Pink Star diamond has become the world’s most expensive gemstone, selling at auction for $71.2 million (£57.3 million) including buyer’s premium. Photo: The Pink Star diamond sells for $71.2 million, becoming the world’s most expensive gemstone – and is renamed the CTF Pink Star. The Guinness World Records …

Calais, France – April 12, 2017 – A total of 82 balloons that took off from Dover in Kent have been flown across the English Channel and made it to France, setting the new world record for the Most hot air balloons to cross the English Channel. Photo: The cohort of 85 hot air balloons flew from Dover to Calais …

Rome, Italy – April 11, 2017 – Researchers have discovered ancient dental fillings in northern Italy; the fillings were found inside a pair of 13,000-year-old front teeth; they were made of bitumen, a semi-solid form of petroleum thus setting the new record for the World’s oldest dental fillings. Photo: Researchers have discovered ancient dental fillings in northern Italy, the world’s …

Toronto, Canada – April 11, 2017 – A group of 404 people dressed as Albert Einstein walked down the streets of Toronto to set a World Record for “largest gathering of people dressed as Albert Einstein” and kick off the 2017 Next Einstein competition. Photo: A group of 404 people dressed as Albert Einstein walked down the streets of Canada …

Toronto, Ontario, Canada – April 11, 2017 – CNIB kicked off its centennial year with Eye Believe, a flash mob in Nathan Phillips Square; hundreds of community members gathered to set the World Record for the Largest human image of an eye (largest formation of the human eye). Photo: CNIB kicked off its centennial year with Eye Believe, a flash …

Baltimore, Maryland, USA – April 9, 2017 – A total of 494 students, faculty and staff at Loyola University Maryland set the World Record for the most people crab-walking at once. Photo: Loyola University breaks the Guinness World Record for the most people crab walking for two minutes simultaneously. To claim the new record 494 people took part in the …

Tallahassee, Florida, USA – April 10, 2017 – More than 300 Florida State University students successfully formed the world’s largest human “FSU Torch” on campus; it stretched across Landis Green from near Strozier Library to Landis Hall, setting the new world record for the Largest human FSU torch. Photo: A camera-equipped drone flying 400 feet overhead captured the “FSU Torch …

London, UK – April 9, 2017 – Jessica the Jack Russell and her owner, Rachael Grylls, used a skipping rope to clock up 59 jumps in one minute, thus setting the new world record for the Most skips by a dog and person in one minute – single rope. Photo: Rachel Grylls, 38, and eight-year-old Jessica broke the Guinness World …

Dublin, Ireland – April 7, 2017 – Farmer Patrick Shalvey, whose family are hosting Big Week on the Farm on their dairy farm in Cootehill, Co Cavan, smashed the existing Guinness world record for reversing a tractor and trailer by 2.8 kilometres. Photo: Farmer Patrick Shalvey, whose family are hosting Big Week on the Farm on their dairy farm in …

Dublin, Ireland – April 6, 2017 – Barry John Crowe, 36, from Cavan, managed to break the Guinness World Record for the Most sausages produced in one minute live on air on RTÉ One’s ‘Big Week on the Farm’ at Maudabawn, near Cootehill, by making a whopping 78 sausages in 60 seconds. Photo: Barry John Crowe (36) has smashed the …