Edinburgh, United Kingdom – August 9, 2017 – The World’s first car to be fuelled by whisky residue biofuel, created by Celtic Renewables Ltd, a spinout company from Edinburgh Napier University, who also worked with Perthshire’s Tullibardine Distillery on the project, was test driven using the fuel for the first time today at Edinburgh Napier University. Photo: Celtic Renewables, which …

Sao Paulo, Brazil – August 4, 2017 – A group of 102 brave participants took a seat at a table suspended about 20 meters above the ground; they completed their thrill with eating grilled Brazilian barbecue, thus setting the new world record for the Largest Dinner in The Sky (using rappel). Photo: 102 absailers rappeled off a 28 metre high …

Welland, Canada – August 1, 2017 – The Welland Canal was quite colourful as about 2,000 people took their favourite floaties to the water and set the new world record for the Longest line of water inflatables. Photo: The Welland Canal was dotted with water inflatables of all kinds. Pizza, donuts, swans and family loungers, approximately 2,000 people made it out …

Pretoria, South Africa – June 26, 2017 – Jesse Adams a 39-year-old motoring journalist at the Saturday Star Motoring, beat the Guinness World Record for the longest vehicle drift by skidding into a perpetual circle without stopping 168km in a marathon 5 hours and 46 minutes. Photo: Jesse Adams, a 39-year-old motoring journalist at the Saturday Star Motoring, beat the …

Beijing, China – June 2, 2017 – The team from Cangwu County in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region covered a distance of 13,518m on the Xunjiang River in a dragon boat measuring 18.3m-long and 1.2m-wide, thus setting the new world record for the Greatest distance by a dragon boat in one hour. Photo: A dragon boat team from south China’s Guangxi …

Mumbai, India – June 2, 2017 – A total of 1,007 Mumbai residents broke a Guinness World Record by running in reverse at Hiranandani Gardens, Powai; they ran 150 metres, thus setting the new world record for the Largest backwards race. Photo: A whopping 1,007 Mumbaikars turned their backs to the finish line in the ‘What !f Backward Run’ that …

Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia – April 23, 2017 – “Marína” is a great work of a love and reflective poetry in Slovak literature written by Andrej Sládkovič in 1845; the 291 stanzas (2900 lines) long love poem about realistic but unfulfilled love between the author and his muse Marína Pischlová; it sets the new world record for the Longest Love Poem. …

Dhaka, Bangladesh – April 14, 2017 – BDCyclists, a community based social network of cyclists, has broken the Guinness World Records of Longest single line of moving bicycles; a total of 1186 cyclists have set the World Record for the Longest single line of bicycles (moving) / longest line of moving bicycles after travelling together in a single file line …

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 …

Cape Town, South Africa – April 3, 2017 – Black Insomnia, now available in the US, was created by Sean Kristafor who hails from the coffee capital of the world, Cape Town; one cup of this coffee contains more than twice your recommended daily limit of caffeine, with a whopping 58.5mg per fluid ounce – that’s 702mg for a 12-ounce …