Metairie, Louisiana, USA – June 26, 2017 – Jax Frey, an award-winning New Orleans artist who creates bold, colorful, highly textured acrylic and mixed-media paintings with Louisiana-inspired and figurative expression, completed her 20,000th ‘Little Views’ mini painting, thus setting the new world record for the Most Original, Acrylic Paintings on Canvas by one Artist. Photo: Jax’s popular line of mini …

Enkanyisweni, South Africa – May 24, 2017 – Some interesting concoctions were prepared at the Margate Light Plane Club’s potjiekos competition; by having 66 potjies bubbling at once, the Club sets the new world record for the Most potjies cooked simultaneously. Photo: Some interesting concoctions were prepared at the Margate Light Plane Club’s potjiekos competition. The club broke the Guinness …

Los Angeles, California, USA – May 24, 2017 – The CBS gameshow Let’s Make a Deal set a world record by creating a massive cereal bowl as a gag prize; the massive bowl, which weighed 3,504 pounds, was featured as a “ZONK” consolation prize on the show’s “foodie” episode and sets the new world record for the Largest cereal bowl. …

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA – March 28, 2017 – Piled high with 500lbs of spaghetti, 150 gallons of sauce and 50lbs of cheese, the a giant pasta bowl made its annual appearance for St. Joseph’s Day celebrations; spanning eight feet in diameter, it sets the new world record for the Biggest Pasta Bowl. Photo: New Orleans Italian American Marching Club, has …

Adelaide, Australia – November 25, 2016 – Dulwich Bakery (owner Wayne Duffy) baked an 804kg vanilla slice; the slice comprised 600kg of custard, 150kg of pastry and 50kg of icing and it took six bakers to assemble the 6m by 2m sweet treat which sets the new world record for the Largest vanilla slice. Photo: An 804kg vanilla slice baked …

Vukovar, Croatia – August 22, 2016 – Chef maestro Denis Šoštarić (29) and 12 assisting chefs spent 9 hours cooking up 4,650 litres (12,500 portions) of meat stew (“Čobanac”), thus setting the new world record for the Largest meat stew. Photo: Šoštarić and 12 assisting chefs spent 9 hours cooking up 12,500 portions of the stew to set a new world …

Calgary, Canada – July 26, 2016 – North Hill Shopping Centre broke a Guinness World Record for the largest cowboy hat mosaic, with 2,036 hats included, in Calgary, Alta. Photo: The display broke a previous Guinness World Record set in 2011, and the proceeds from the hats sold benefit Cystic Fibrosis Canada. The Guinness World Records world record for the …

London, UK – May 31, 2016 – Internet entrepreneur Adam Leyton, 39, of Horsforth, has set a record for the most countries visited in 24 hours using only public transport; he made his epic European day trip from May 25 to 26, starting in Perl, Germany, then travelling through Luxembourg, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Poland, the Czech Republic, …

Sigmund Freud (born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist, now known as the father of psychoanalysis. Freud qualified as a doctor of medicine at the University of Vienna in 1881, and then carried out research into cerebral palsy, aphasia and microscopic neuroanatomy at the Vienna General Hospital. Upon completing his habilitation in …

Dubai, United Arab Emirates – April 8, 2016 – Japanese drift champion Kawabata Masato has set a new word record for the fastest drift; at a special event on the 3000 metre main runway at Fujairah International Airport, Team Tokyo star Kawabata threw his specially tuned Nissan GT-R sideways at 30 degrees and held it there – at 304.96km/h, thus …