Guinness World Records
World famous street performer Chayne Hultgren, shows off his ability to swallow 18 swords at once – a Guinness World Record – in front of the Sydney Opera. The Australian broke his own world record by swallowing 18 swords, each with a blade measuring 50.8cm by 1.3cm
Well folks, they finally did it! ABC Family set a new Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of Santa’s Elves in one place.
Seventeen people — fully set ablaze — walk around a field in South Russell, Ohio, as they break the Guiness Book of World Records mark for most people fully engulfed in fire at the same time. The group remained on fire for 43.9 seconds.
World record-holding cardstacker Bryan Berg unveils his 400-square-foot Key Card Hotel – made with more than 200,000 Holiday Inn key cards – at the South Street Seaport.
Berg takes a break on the key card bed. The 34-year-old professional cardstacker has also broken the world record for World’s Tallest House of Freestanding Playing Cards in 1992
It’s 8-times bigger than any cupcake you’ve ever seen … and it’s the new world record holder according to Guiness. Baked in Royal Oak, Mich., it weighs 1,224 lbs. and clocks in at an estimated 2 million calories. The colossal cupcake took 12 hours to bake and included 800 eggs and 200 pounds each of sugar and flour.
An 11-year-old boy got slimed on his birthday. Fin Keheler allowed 43 snails to be put on his face for 10 seconds.
A group of 116 young men and women braved the cold weather wearing nothing but underwear to help Fair Trade’s ‘Pants to Poverty’ cause. They also set a brand new Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of people in their underpants.
Czech fakir Zdenek Zahradka survived 10 days buried underground in a wooden coffin, without food and water, setting a new world record. He was connected with the outside world only by a ventilation pipe.
A group of Malaysians claimed they had broken the world’s record for the longest line of coins with a column that snaked 34.56 miles in downtown Kuala Lumpur.
Hundreds of people gathered at the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa, Fla., in 2001, to unfurl the ‘Superflag,’ billed as the world’s largest, at 505-ft by 255-ft.
Svetlana Pankratova struts her legs in a limo in Times Square – she has the world’s longest legs at 52 inches.
Israeli couple Karmat and Dror kissed for 30 hours and 45 minutes to set a new world record. For nearly 31 hours they didn’t eat, drink, talk or even go to the bathroom
Matt McAllister, of Santa Barbara, Calif., breaks the world record for most t-shirts worn by one person by wearing 121 t-shirts
