World Records

Marquette, Michigan, USA – April 29, 2017 – Northern Michigan University has freeze tagged its way into the record books; with weather anchor Al Roker in attendance and NBC’s “Today” broadcasting live from Marquette, 634 people piled into the Superior Dome to break the Guinness World Record for the largest game of freeze tag. Photo: Northern Michigan University students crushed …

Mount Pleasant, Texas, USA – April 25, 2017 – A Mount Pleasant chocolate manufacturer succeeded in breaking the Guinness World Record for “Largest Chocolate Truffle”; the Sweet Shop USA made a chocolate truffle weighing 2,368 lbs., measures 3’5′ tall and is 12’2″ in diameter, thus setting the new world record for Largest Chocolate Truffle. Photo: Sweet Shop USA had to …

Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia – April 23, 2017 – “Marína” is a great work of a love and reflective poetry in Slovak literature written by Andrej Sládkovič in 1845; the 291 stanzas (2900 lines) long love poem about realistic but unfulfilled love between the author and his muse Marína Pischlová; it sets the new world record for the Longest Love Poem. …

San Diego, California, USA – April 20, 2017 – A man and his dog broke the Guinness World Record for the longest trip on an electric bike; Mike Minnick and his 15-pound rescue dog ‘Bixby’ pedaled more than 14,000 miles together on their electric bike, thus setting the new world record for the Longest journey on a motorized bicycle. Photo: …

Mumbai, India – April 20, 2017 – Mohammad Shams Aalam Shaikh (b July 17, 1986) of Mumbai, a paraplegic with 100% disability due to spinal cord injury, set a record for having completed the longest open-sea swimming by a paraplegic by covering an impressive 8km in the open seas of Goa in a span of four hours and four minutes. …

Corsier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland – April 17, 2017 – Six hundred and sixty-two fans of Charlie Chaplin donned their bowler hats and walking sticks and fake moustaches to celebrate the comedian’s 128th birthday on 16 April and set the new world record for the Largest gathering of people dressed as Charlie Chaplin. Photo: According to Chaplin’s World museum, 662 people — sporting …

Dubai, UAE – April 17, 2017 – Gurdwara Guru Nanak Darbar in Dubai broke the Guinness world record for serving free breakfast to the maximum number of people from diverse nationalities after serving continental breakfast titled ‘Breakfast for Diversity’ to 600 persons from 101 countries in an hour-long event in Jebel Ali. Photo: Gurudwara Guru Nanak Darbar has marked into …

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA – April 17, 2017 – University of Michigan mechanical engineering students designed and built a 1,500-pound Rubik’s Cube, which sets the new world record for the largest free standing Rubik’s Cube. Photo: A giant Rubik’s Cube newly installed on the University of Michigan’s North Campus is the world’s largest hand-solvable, stationary version of the famous puzzle. …

Devon, United Kingdom – April 17, 2017 – Bakers at Asda’s Barnstaple superstore have made a giant Easter biscuit; it has has a 31 inch diameter (79cm), a whole 25 inches (64cm) bigger than the regular sized Easter biscuit, thus setting the new world record for the Biggest Easter biscuit. Photo: Asda Barnstaple store manager Andy Felix and bakery manager …

Dhaka, Bangladesh – April 14, 2017 – BDCyclists, a community based social network of cyclists, has broken the Guinness World Records of Longest single line of moving bicycles; a total of 1186 cyclists have set the World Record for the Longest single line of bicycles (moving) / longest line of moving bicycles after travelling together in a single file line …