Florida paramedic Autumn Kelso (USA) just claimed the record for the shortest female firefighter in the world!

With tattoos on top of tattoos, Ephemeral Remy’s body is a work of art. The Canadian – real name Jeremy Schofield – has had at least 90% of his skin covered in ink since 2005. He’s been covered and re ...

Soaring high in her latest daredevil stunt, 97-year-old Betty Bromage (UK) has not only broken her own record for oldest wing walker (female), she also became the oldest person to perform a ...

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From science and tech innovators to sports stars, creatives, activists and uniquely GWR record-breakers, these are the pioneers, the lifelong obsessives, the dedicated and the dreamers who have come ...

The longest earthworm is Microchaetus rappi of South Africa. In 1967 a giant specimen measuring 6.7 m (21 ft) in length when naturally extended and 20 mm (0.8 in) in diameter was found on a road ...

Speed-eater Leah Shutkever (UK) is back on the record-breaking menu! With 42 records to her name so far, this serial (or cereal) record-breaker stopped by Guinness World Records HQ in London to take ...

This extraordinary young man is Lalit Patidar. The 18-year-old from India has the hairiest face on a person (male), with 201.72 hairs per square centimetre. Over 95% of his face is covered in hair. He ...

On the 26th of January 1972, Vesna Vulović was a flight attendant onboard JAT Yugoslav Airlines Flight 367. The flight path, between Stockholm in Sweden and Belgrade in Serbia, took the aircraft over ...

A goldfish could be your next Uber driver, thanks to a computer engineer’s revolutionary invention. Thomas de Wolf (Netherlands) made a unique car that contains a water tank and is directed by the ...

California resident Edwin Castro has been revealed as the winner of the world’s greatest jackpot in a national lottery, over three months after the numbers were drawn in November 2022. Overcoming odds ...

Within the city limits of one of the world’s biggest metropolises, Mexico City, lies one of the last remnants of the Aztecs. Xochimilco, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is a vast network of canals and ...