Incredible challenges achieved are being celebrated on Guinness World Records Day 2025. To mark the occasion, taking place Thursday, Nov. 20, three new UK records were set at the Up at The O2 roofwalk in London, ahead of the opening of the first permanent ...

The 10-month-old kitten has 28 toes (and 30 claws), but his owner says he's "a regular kitty" in every other way

Seven world records in just over a week raises eyebrows. While such feats are not unheard of in track and field, this record-breaking nine-day period was not at an Olympic Games, a World Championships, or any kind of continental or global meeting.

Monsieur Mangetout — that's Mr. Eats Everything in French — is famous for eating a plane, earning the Guinness World Record for world's strangest diet. His record is one of tens of thousands on the books at Guinness World Records where, every year ...

As the world's de facto record adjudicator, Guinness World Records keeps tabs on all manner of weird and wonderful feats. Toyota's humanoid robot which happens to be really good at basketball is a Guinness World Record holder, alongside the man who ...

As a child I loved Tom Thumb, the perfectly formed human who was only a couple of inches tall; he roamed the countryside while sitting on the back of a mouse or hitched a ride in the ear of a horse. It grieved me to eventually learn that he was a fiction ...

Legendary swimming coach Bob Bowman has witnessed and coached many athletes to world records over his illustrious career. But being part of his first one while coaching Canadian swimming superstar Summer McIntosh on Sunday night in Montreal felt a little different for the veteran coach.

America’s 250th birthday just got a little heavier. Texas Precious Metals has officially earned the Guinness World Records title for the world’s heaviest silver coin after unveiling a 2,500-troy-ounce,