World Records

Belaga, Malaysia – May 29, 2016 – Over 400 Orang Ulu weavers from Bakun, Murum and Baram communities have earned themselves the title of the World Record for the longest woven mat (longest rug) in the world; measuring 1128.272m long and 28 inches wide, they were able to smash the previous Guinness World records world record held by Sweden for …

Detroit, Michigan, USA – May 29, 2016 – Shinola, the Detroit-based watch company that also makes dog leashes, donated a super-long, red-orange lead to the The Humane Society; the leash measured 2,2620-foot, 8-inch, thus setting the new world record for the Longest dog lead. Photo: Link, a 2-year-old Icelandic sheepdog, dons a world-record-breaking, 2,2621-foot leash at Michigan Humane Society in …

San Diego, California, USA – May 26, 2016 – A total of 508 people gathered at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion, donned hand puppets and acted out a story about Dr. Harry Wegeforth and the founding of the San Diego Zoo in 1916 to set a World Record for the most people performing with hand puppets. Photo: An enthusiastic crowd of …

Rome, Italy – May 29, 2016 – Costa Cruises, in partnership with Aperol, achieved a World Record aboard Costa Favolosa with the creation of the world’s largest Spritz; the impressive 1000-liter version of the classic Aperol Spritz cocktail is almost twice the size of the previous record (573 liters), which was set in Italy in 2010. Photo: Over 1,000 litres of …

Swiss Alps, Switzerland – May 26, 2016 – The world’s longest and deepest railway tunnel will be opened on June 1 in Switzerland; the Gotthard Base Tunnel (GBT), hewn through mountain rock and providing a high-speed rail connection between northern and southern Europe, will become one of the main rail links across the Alps and the longest in the world, …

Beijing, China – May 26, 2016 – More than 31,000 Chinese participants have set a record for mass plaza dancing in multiple locations; some 31,697 people in Beijing, Shanghai and four other cities set the new mark by performing choreographed dance moves together for more than five minutes, thus setting the new world record for Most choreographed mass plaza dancers …

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA – May 24, 2016 – The Greatest height from which a basketball is shot now stands at 533ft (162.45m); the shot was performed from Cotter Ranch Tower in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and bettered the previous record – Australian Brett Standord’s 415ft (126.5m) – by a remarkable 118ft (35.95m). Photo: Five friends from Frisco, Texas, known as …

Essen, Germany – May 24, 2016 – Zenises has presented the world’s most expensive tyre at the firm’s Reifen Show launch event; the Z-branded 295/35 ZR21 107Y XL tyre at the centre of the record attempt was produced in the Sentury Tire factory in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China; the world record has set the bar high at US$600,000 for a …

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA – May 24, 2016 – In the spirit of changing lives, the largest U.S. swing set manufacturer Backyard Discovery partnered with the largest youth mentoring network Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) to build the longest swing set; the swing set was was over 562 feet long, which is almost twice the size of a football field and sets …

Boston, Massachusetts, USA – May 19, 2016 – Massachusetts General announced that Thomas Manning, 64, a bank courier from Massachusetts, has received a penis from a deceased donor and become the third penile transplant patient in history — the first of his kind in the United States. Photo: A hospital in Boston has become the first in the US to …