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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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The students were teenagers – but then again, so was the professor. As Nathan Thomas (USA, b. 9 September 2004) walked into COP 2270: C for Engineers at Miami Dade College in August 2023, he was met ...

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 ...

Buckle up because you’re in for quite a long ride! The longest car in the world has finally been restored and is ready to cruise. On 1 March 2022, the super limo rolled in at a length of 30.54 meters ...

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 ...

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 ...