#guinness-world-records

#guinness-world-records

If you walked past Central Park this week and noticed a massive new structure rising over Fifth Avenue, you weren't imagining it. The world's largest menorah-an unmistakable 36-foot-tall New York holiday fixture-has officially gone up at Grand Army Plaza, right at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street, across from the Plaza Hotel. The towering menorah was assembled early Wednesday morning, December 10, drawing curious onlookers, camera phones and the annual reminder that Hanukkah season has arrived in the city.

This peaceful protest is important because it bypasses all differences. During other protests, we hear stories of goons, but this one bypasses all stories and triggers humanity,

Copper Mountain welcomed Guinness World Record Holder Thomas Hart, a.k.a. "Racer Tom", to their slopes this week as he pushed his vertical feet skied in 2025 up to 15 million. According to Guinness World Records, his record for the greatest vertical distance skied downhill in a year currently sits at 11,421,065 ft. Those numbers were put down between October 23rd, 2024, and June 15th, 2025.

His delivery broke the world record for the oldest known human embryo to result in a live birth. The achievement has been officially recognized by Guinness World Records because his embryo was frozen seven months before those of the previous record holders. Timothy and Lydia Ridgeway, of Vancouver, Washington, will celebrate their third birthday at the end of this month. They were conceived in April 1992 and their embryos were kept in storage for 29 years and 9 months before being transferred.

During the project, the skateboarder hit a speed of 103 kph, skating from a height of 70 meters with a drop of 60 meters, measured from the lowest point of the ramp to the platform. Safety was integrated into the ramp design. At the end of the ramp, MotoGP crash pillows were installed, and these devices, normally used in motorcycle racing, helped stop a speeding Sandro Dias after hitting above 100 kilometers per hour.

This week it's the 70th birthday of the Guinness Book of Records, that gloriously bonkers compendium of human achievement that celebrates the people who can stuff the most marshmallows in their mouth, balance the most spoons on their body, and hula hoop underwater for the longest time. It features everything from standard athletic victories to "most high fives in 30 seconds" and "fastest time to make a pasta necklace."

The organisation's first volume was published on August 27 1955 and sparked worldwide curiosity about record-breaking achievements. The inspiration for the book came from a debate at a shooting party in the early 1950s in County Wexford, Ireland, which was attended by Sir Hugh Beaver, the then-managing director of the Guinness Brewery. He and his hosts debated the question of the fastest game bird in Europe but failed to find an answer in any reference book.

Dan Abbate, 31, Gorilla Tango Novelty Meats CEO and big hot dog inventor, holds the Guinness World Record for the largest hot dog commercially available. It weighs 3.18kg (7lb) and measures 40.64cm (16in) long and 10.16cm in diameter. Just one can provide 40 regular-sized servings at a cost of $40 (24.60) Photograph: Kevin Scott Ramos/Guinness World Records/PA

That day was so special to me, I just soaked in that moment and just I cried, of course.

"Obviously, bringing the smallest dog in the world with the tallest dog in the world, there was a little bit of anxiety. But I think he was very gentle [and] very, very kind [to Pearl], as best as he could be."