Tag Archives: Guinness World Record
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Texas Golf Pro Drives a Ball 146 Yards with a 14-Foot Golf Club (Video)
I’m a pretty lousy golfer, so if I hit a ball 150 yards off the tee and it lands on the fairway, I’m pretty happy. And that, of course, is with a normal club. If I tried to use some goofy novelty club in an attempt to set a new Guinness World Record? Yeah, it [...]
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Felix Baumgartner Became The First Human Being To Travel Faster Than The Speed Of Sound Yesterday (Video)
In the fall of 2010, a Brooklyn cinematographer scored a YouTube hit by using a weather balloon to send his iPhone into the stratosphere with an HD camera. Then, last November, two dudes sent a can of Natty Light up there and claimed it was the first beer in space (which is highly unlikely). Finally, [...]
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Texas High School Cheerleader Sets World Record For Consecutive Backward Handsprings (Video)
One year ago, a high school cheerleader named Miranda Ferguson wowed the crowd at a high school football game in Dallas, Texas, by performing 20 backward handsprings in a row during halftime. The impressive feat inspired one of her friends to do a little research, and that friend discovered that the official Guinness World Record [...]
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15 Awesome Sports-Related Guinness World Records
Every sport has sacred records. In baseball it’s the home run records—career and single season—though the hitting streak is also pretty special. Football has career rushing yards, or touchdown passes in a season, just to name two. Basketball has career points and, maybe more impossible to break, points in a single game. And of course [...]
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Surfer Sets World Record By Surfing 78-Foot Wave (Video)
Well, it’s official. There is now a new world record for the tallest wave ever surfed, and it belongs to Garrett McNamara of Haleiwa, Hawaii. The 44-year-old pro surfer made his record-setting run back in November just off the coast of Praia do Norte, which is on a small island in the middle of the [...]
