Brittany Lacayo just broke the decade-old Guinness World Record for the widest female tongue in the world.
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The drift of the BMW M5 lasted as long as 8 hours, during which time the car slid "on the side" for as much as 374.17 kilometers. BMW driver Johan Schwartz was behind the wheel again, breaking his own record when he drove 82.51 kilometers with the previous generation BMW M5.
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.
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.
Cassandra de Pecol wants to become the first woman to visit every country in the world. At the moment, it has ticked off 181, so it is only 15 countries short of 196. She set out on her journey in July 2015 and is well on her way to visit all 193 sovereign states as well as Kosovo, Taiwan and Palestine in record time. She spent 198 thousand US dollars in 15 months on her travels, which she named Expedition196.
Driving down a winding hill in a car at 140 km/h is a dangerous thing to do. The American Kyle Wester did it in an unknown location in the USA with a Santa Cruz skateboard, setting the world speed record, which was held by Sweden's Erik Lundberg since June. The new record mark is now 143.89 km/h!
How many hot dogs could you eat in one minute? Or roast beef? Two, three, maybe four? The world record holder easily seven of them or as many as 70 in 10 minutes! People do all sorts of bizarre things to get their five minutes of fame. Speed eating is definitely one of them, and people take on many food challenges in the hope of getting their name on the record. They gobble up hot dogs, sushi, hard-boiled eggs, raw butter, meatloaf, poultry... Check out who are the fastest eaters in the world.
The longest pizza in the world according to the new measure is almost 2 kilometers! They aimed so much at the pizza, which was baked in the birthplace of pizza, Naples, which made it into the Guinness Book of Records.
Knocking down dominoes can be a real art. In the warehouse of electronics company Aaron's Inc, however, things were handled a little differently. They did not set a record in knocking down classic dominoes, but in the category of yogi dominoes with people. Years ago, a British mattress company came up with a similar project, when 41 employees made a living domino with mattresses, setting the first record, but at Aaron's Inc, they far exceeded that number.