Charlotte, North Carolina, USA – June 9, 2016 – With more than 150 gallons of OLYMPIC® MAXIMUM® stain and 33,000 WOOSTER® paint brushes, the Olympic Paints and Stains brand of PPG (NYSE: PPG) achieved the world record holder title for the Largest paintbrush mosaic; hundreds of shoppers and guests at 21 LOWE’S® locations across the Midwest and east coast helped …
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Green Island, Taiwan – June 2, 2016 – Chen Ying-ming, owner of a Green Island-based souvenir business, installed the world’s deepest underwater mailbox to break a Guinness World Records record; a dive team that he organized from local enthusiasts will service the box, located 12m below sea level in the Shilang Diving Area, every other day. Photo: A resident of Taitung …
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Leicester, UK – May 31, 2016 – A grandad has broken his 57th world record after towing a 12-tonne double-decker bus – with nothing more than his tiny ponytail; strongman Manjit Singh, 66, smashed the previous Guinness World Records record of 9.5 tonnes set by another man in 2010 when he hauled the Arriva bus 15.5m (50ft), thus setting the …
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Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA – May 24, 2016 – The Greatest height from which a basketball is shot now stands at 533ft (162.45m); the shot was performed from Cotter Ranch Tower in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and bettered the previous record – Australian Brett Standord’s 415ft (126.5m) – by a remarkable 118ft (35.95m). Photo: Five friends from Frisco, Texas, known as …
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Boston, Massachusetts, USA – May 19, 2016 – Massachusetts General announced that Thomas Manning, 64, a bank courier from Massachusetts, has received a penis from a deceased donor and become the third penile transplant patient in history — the first of his kind in the United States. Photo: A hospital in Boston has become the first in the US to …
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Derby, UK – May 19, 2016 – Jonathan Kinder, a Rolls-Royce worker, ran more than 82 miles in just 12 hours in Derby city centre smashing a Guinness World records word record and setting the new world record for Greatest distance run on a treadmill in 12 hours. Photo: Jonathan Kinder’s distance of 82.58 miles broke the Guinness World Record …
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Paris, France – May 2, 2016 – Franky Zapata sets a new World Record for farthest hoverboard flight, after flying his Flyboard Air for a distance of 2,252 meters at an event in Sausset-les-Pins, France. Photo: Frenchman and champion jet skier Franky Zapata covered the 1.4-mile distance over Sausset-Les-Pins using a hoverboard, and literally blow the previous Guinness World Records world …
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Sotogrande, Spain – April 18, 2016 – Team France set a new world record for the fastest golf hole, scoring birdie in just 34.8 seconds; French golfers Raphael Jacquelin, Alex Levy, Romain Wattel, and Gregory Havret have set a new record for the world’s fastest hole, going from tee to green in 34.8 seconds. Photo: French golfers Raphael Jacquelin, Alex …
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NAS Lemoore, California, USA – April 12, 2016 – The Hennessey Venom GT Spyder has set a new world record for open-top sports cars at Naval Air Station Lemoore where Racelogic, the renowned independent speed testing firm, has officially confirmed that a top speed of 265.6 mph (427.3 km/h) was achieved, thus setting the new world record for the Fastest …
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County Westmeath, Ireland -April 5, 2016 – Donegal man Ivan Scott beat the Guinness World Records title for the fastest time to shear a sheep, on the opening episode of Big Week on the Farm on RTÉ One; Ivan (33) from Kilmacrennan near Letterkenny, Co Donegal, sheared the sheep in just 37.9 seconds, shaving an impressive 1.41 seconds off the existing …
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