The Danish company Lego has been making fairy-tale dreams of children all over the world come true for years, but this time in the Legoland theme park in Japan they did something for the eyes of adults as well.
The world-renowned Slovenian acrobatic group Dunking Devils continues to impress. They recently announced that they will be filming the TV series Fly Guys for the international media company Jukin Media, and now they have also become Guinness record holders. They set a record in the category of the highest somersault by driving into the basket.
At the end of the winter season, the temperatures were already so high that you could really ski or surfed in bathing suits. Well, in the Russian ski resort of Rosa Khutor in Sochi, they did just that. Namely, the second BoogleWoogle swimsuit skiing festival was recently held there, where the participants put on swimwear instead of overalls.
We've all sat in an electric bumper car at an amusement park. Even Stig from the show Top Gear did, only he didn't crash with it, but broke the speed record with it and entered the Guinness Book of Records. Check out his daring feat.
You probably never thought of finger clapping as a sport, but Japanese student Satoyuki Fujimara is taking it seriously and recently broke one of the heaviest records in history. Check how many times he clapped in one minute. The number is absolutely incredible.
The smallest nightclub in the world was opened in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It sounds like a Club 28 and measures less than a toilet cubicle, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a dance floor, a DJ, lighting effects and a disco ball! Think it's too small for you? Think how many times you've felt like a sardine in a nightclub...
Steklarna Hrastnik built an 8.5-ton 3D-puzzle in the shape of a pyramid from 20,708 Glass Puzzle cups, which are made of one of the highest quality glasses in the world (it achieves the luster of crystal and does not contain heavy metals). The structure is 2.71 meters high, 3.41 meters wide and 4.04 meters long. With it, the glass factory broke the Guinness record in the 3D puzzle category.
A new Guinness Book of Records has been published with the year 2017. Among the 4,000 new records that have further thickened this bible of records (from 1955 to the present, more than 136 million copies have been sold), there were also seven Slovenian achievements. Among other things, we now officially own the chocolate record with the largest area, the record for the longest distance traveled on a stationary bike, and the indoor 800 meter run record.
While on the one hand the Guinness Book of World Records is full of incredible records, on the other hand it is full of quite bizarre achievements. At the end of the year, Guinness prepared an overview of the most high-profile records achieved in 2015, and yes, 2015 also had a lot of real human excesses on its account, as well as ones that make us shake our heads and wonder what people are up to to do for a Guinness World Record. Did you know that we have a joke-telling speed record holder and a nut-head rubbing record holder?
Records fascinate and inspire people, and no wonder then that the best-selling book in the world is the Guinness Book of Records and not (anymore) the Bible. And although breaking into the "Bible" of records is difficult, some people don't even have to apply for a record, because the world notices them on its own. This applies to Predjamski Castle, which was recently recognized as the largest cave castle in the world and can be found in the 60th anniversary edition.
The collector Michael Thomasson, who entered the Guinness Book of Records last December as the owner of the largest collection of games - he had more than 11,000 of them in his possession, although the count officially stopped at 10,607 due to Guinness rules - was recently forced to sell his truly rich collection .