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Felix Baumgartner Breaks Skydiving World Record, Sound Barrier

Joe Student — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 22:00:46 +0000

No one gets high better than Felix Baumgartner.

Austrian BASE-jumper Baumgartner, 43, broke a 52-year-old skydiving altitude record and the sound barrier by jumping out of a space capsule 128,100 feet above the Earth in Roswell, N.M. on Sunday.

RecordSetter Picks Their 15 Best and Craziest World Records of 2011 [VIDEOS]

Jeremy Taylor — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:30:43 +0000

Thanks to the website RecordSetter, which allows folks to invent a world record in anything, many a wacky record was set and/or broken in 2011.

Some of our favorite RecordSetter marks this year include the record for two girls slapping each other with pizza, the record for most time spent simultaneously juggling, eating and balancing on “rola bola” and the man who set a world record for most quarters shoved up his nose.

Lety's Move! First Lady Attempts Guiness World Record For Jumping Jacks

Steve Tanko — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:51:06 +0000

Apparently state dinners and french fries aren't enough. First Lady Michelle Obama is attempting to set a Guiness World Record for jumping jacks.
The First Lady is teaming with National Geographic Kids to get into the Guinness World Records book for the most people doing jumping jacks over the course of a 24-hour period, reports the Associated Press

World's Smallest Origami Sculptures are Truly Amazing [PICTURES]

Shauna Wright — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:58:09 +0000

Origami, the Japanese art of folding paper, is impressive enough on its own, let alone when it’s done in miniature form. Yet that’s what artist Anja Markiewicz does, creating amazingly tiny sculptures of things like animals and snowflakes out of paper less than an inch in width. Here are a few examples — see more [...]

World's Largest Photograph on Display in California

Chip Sandalwood — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:12:14 +0000

Displaying the world’s largest photograph presents a number of unique challenges for a museum, chief among them being where to put a photo that’s three stories tall and 11 stories wide. Created by a collective of six artists known as The Legacy Project and currently on display at California’s UCR Sweeney Art Gallery, ‘The Great Picture’ is not only the largest photograph ever printed, but it was also taken by the largest camera ever created.

More Than 3,600 Waldos Sing 'We Are the Champions' To Set World Record [VIDEO]

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:45:14 +0000

If you wanted find the real Waldo in Dublin, Ireland last weekend you would have been in for quite a challenge.

That’s because 3,657 people donned the red-and-white striped costume of the notoriously illusive character from the ‘Where’s Waldo?’ children’s book series in order to set a world record for the most Waldo impersonators in one place.

Cuban Strives to Beat World Record With 268-Foot Cigar

Kool Staff — Thu, 05 May 2011 18:34:09 +0000

Last month, Cuban native Jose Castelar set out to break his own record for the world’s largest cigar. Castelar began the project at the end of April and, with the help of assistants, finished the super-cigar on Tuesday. Naturally, he called in British diplomats to measure the cigar for the Guinness World Records. The official [...]