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World's Fastest Back Bend Walk - Guinness World Records 2014
London-based contortionist Leilani “Lucky” Franco holds the Guinness world record for the World’s Fastest Human Backbend Walk, moving nearly 66 feet in 10.05 seconds. She says, “Whenever I’m at a party, my friends are always like, ‘Leilani, show people what you can do!’ and I say ok and I do something really weird and everybody gets really shocked. I really like that.”
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Twerking World Record
New Yorkers in and around Herald Square watched a crowd gather for an attempt to set the world record for Most People Twerking Simultaneously. Cruz needed to talk for two more hours to break the filibuster record set, in 1957, by Strom Thurmond; the Herald Square twerkers needed two hundred and fifty people, engaged in two minutes of continuous twerking, to make it into the Guinness Book of Records.
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Quietest and Loudest Places on Earth
One of the noisiest places on earth is the cockpit of an F-1 race car, directly in front of the engine. The noise level has been measured at 140 decibels, according to Hear-It, a non-profit that raises awareness about hearing issues.
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'Norman the Scooter Dog' officially recognized by Guinness Book of World Records
The 3-year-old French sheepdog performed his record-setting feat in July, wowing his audience in a Marietta, Ga., gym. Norman was given his Guinness certificate on Sunday.
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World's tallest man gets married
Sultan Kosen, who holds the Guinness World Record for tallest living man at 2.51m, has married 1.73m Merve Dibo.
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Quantum 'world record' smashed
A fragile quantum memory state has been held stable at room temperature for a "world record" 39 minutes - overcoming a key barrier to ultrafast computers.
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500,000 Lights: Family's Christmas Display Sets World Record
The Richards family used more than 31 miles' worth of LED lights to decorate their home.
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Australian Couple Covers House in 500,000 Christmas Lights for Charity & World Record
David and Janean Richards, a couple living in Canberra, Australia, have decked their house in an astonishing 502,165 lights to raise money for charity and capture the world record for the most lights on a residential property. The display includes 164,000 feet of lights that are synchronized to music by 520 Light-O-Rama channels. The display will be on view through December 26,Throughout the event, the Richards will be raising money for the children’s charity Sids and Kids.
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Matt Prater sets NFL record with 64-yard field goal
Many kickers have made 63-yard field goals, but none have nailed it from beyond that. Matt Prater finally has the record to himself with a 64-yarder on Sunday.
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Texas lays claim to the world's largest gingerbread house
Located at the Traditions Golf Club in Bryan Texas, the larger-than-life gingerbread house officially holds the new Guinness World Record
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Dubai welcomes 2014 with fireworks display, breaks Guinness world record
Dubai has ushered in 2014 with more than half a million fireworks spectacle, breaking the world record for the largest such display ever, Guinness World records said today. Ten months in planning, over 500,000 fireworks were used during the display on the New Year's Eve which lasted around six minutes, with Guinness adjudicators on hand to confirm that a new record had been set.
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IBM Goes Atomic for Smallest Stop-Motion Film
As any grade-school science student learned, atoms are often known as the smallest building blocks of matter. And as any popcorn-purchasing moviegoer knows, cinema dominates the biggest screens. But IBM Research Laboratories has now married the two, using real-life atoms to set a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS feat for creating the smallest stop-motion film.
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World Book Day 2014: Top Ten Book-Related Guinness World Records
In celebration of World Book Day 2014, Guinness World Records has revealed its top ten book-related record breakers. Since 1995, World Book Day has been celebrated annually in over 100 countries across the globe, to promote reading, authors and illustrators. Designated by UNESCO, 2014 marks the 17th year of the occasion.
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Billionaire buys $201 million life insurance policy
Somewhere in Silicon Valley, a billionaire has taken out $201 million in life insurance. Guinness World Records, which announced the policy, said it is the largest ever issued.
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How do you build a car capable of 1,000mph?
Human beings achieved many 'firsts' in the 20th century. We climbed the planet's highest mountains, dived its deepest undersea trench, flew over it faster than the speed of sound, and even escaped it altogether in order to visit the moon. Beyond visiting Mars, it may feel like there are no more milestones left to reach. Yet people are still trying to push the envelope, even if they have to travel a little farther to get there.
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Japan orders longest-held death row inmate freed
The world's longest-serving death row inmate was freed Thursday by a Japanese court which found investigators had likely fabricated evidence in the murder case that put the former pro boxer behind bars for nearly half a century. The Shizuoka District Court suspended the death sentence and ordered a retrial for 78-year-old Iwao Hakamada, who had been convicted in the 1966 murder of a family and was sentenced to death in 1968.
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Whale Breaks Record for Holding Breath Underwater
How long can you hold your breath underwater? A Cuvier's beaked whale just did it for over two hours while on a dive that took it to nearly 2 miles below the ocean's surface.
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Jack White Breaks Record for World's Fastest Studio-to-Store Record
It's official: Jack White has beat the record for the world's fastest released record. At 10 a.m. CST on Record Store Day (April 19), White walked onto the stage in front of a small crowd in the Blue Room at Third Man's Nashville studio to record a limited edition 7-inch of the title track from his forthcoming album, "Lazaretto," due June 10 on Third Man Records/Columbia.
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At 111, oldest living man says still thinking about what to achieve next
Polish-born Alexander Imich, who at 111-years-old was recently declared the world's oldest man, says the secret to longevity is good genes.
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Teen breaks record for fastest text
A 16-year-old from Brazil can dash off a wordy, complicated, text message in the time most of us can thumb "Where R U?" And the folks with Guinness World Records have noticed. Marcel Fernandes typed a 25-word pre-selected paragraph into his touchscreen phone in 18.19 seconds, just enough to break the record of 18.44 seconds set in January. And that phrase was no easy task, either.
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