Tag: world record
World’s Biggest Business Card Is 728 Times The Original Size!
Handing out business cards to people is a good thing, but doesn't always garner the attention you are looking for. Today, you need something that will catch people's attention in a whole new way. Perhaps a new design or a new shape altogether will do it, right?
Well, in a world full of social med ...
World’s Fastest Tetris Player Is Faster Than The Game Itself
How long ago was it that you played Tetris? You know that cube flipping game that everyone who ever played it gets absolutely obsessed with? Sometimes it feels as if Tetris has been a native application on every computer that has ever been sold. The game has of course been refined, modified and damn ...
Scientists Accidentally Created The World’s Thinnest Glass
Some of the world's most life-changing inventions were created by accident. Amongst other things, this includes Penicillin, the Pacemaker, Post-It notes, microwave ovens, ink-jet printers and even potato chips and chocolate chip cookies. Now we can add another thing to that list of innovations that ...
World’s Largest Drum Set Is Made Up Of 813 Pieces Of Awesomeness
I haven't written about someone who’s broken a world record in a while. Those people are always inspiring to me because they believe they can create or do something that has never been done before, and they push themselves until they succeed. Snagging a world record is actually on my own bucket list ...
World Record: The Largest Rubik’s Cube Wall Mosaic (85,794 Cubes)
If you thought twisting and turning one Rubik's Cube to get the colors just right was tough, try twisting over 85,000 of them so they fit perfectly into a wall mosaic that creates a gigantic picture. This incredible feat recently earned CubeWorks yet another Guinness World Record for the largest Rub ...
World’s Largest Scrabble Game Is A Handcrafted Work Of Art
Someone asked me the other day if I thought Scrabble was a geek's game. I thought about it for a moment and said, "Not really, it's more like a smart person's game." Since geeks are smart, I suppose that makes Scrabble a geeky game by default. It's true though. Think about it. When you are in an int ...
This Is The World’s Largest Collection Of Video Game Memorabilia
I think there are a lot of people out there who love calling themselves the ultimate collector. Even the title "ultimate gamer" would carry most people through the day. But when it comes to video game memorabilia, there are few people who can boast about having the largest collection. As a matter of ...
World’s Largest Kaleidoscope Is Covered In Swarovski Crystals
If you are a woman who loves jewelry, you are probably familiar with Swarovski crystals. They are some of the most beautiful crystals in the world, and I treasure my earrings that were created with them. What I did not know until today is that in Innsbruck, Austria there is a place called Swarovski ...
The World’s Largest Pizza (It Has 19,800 Pounds Of Cheese On It)
If you love pizza, you are going to want to order one after reading about this, or at least I did. I remember a few months ago I read about the world’s largest deliverable pizza which was inside the world’s largest pizza box here on Huffington Post. That pizza was large (it could feed 70 people), bu ...
This Enormous Mouth-Watering Chocolate Train Sets A World Record
Another day, another monstrosity of a chocolate build - This incredible chocolate train is really special though since it recently snagged the official Guinness World Record for the World's Longest Chocolate Structure. This train, which comes complete with seven wagons, a bar, a restaurant and more ...
The World’s Largest Hand-Drawn Maze…Almost
If you are a fan of doodling, you've probably hand-drawn a maze at some point in your life, right? I know I have, but I've never drawn any kind of maze like this before. Just to give you an idea about how big this will be when it's finished, it will take the solver around 40 hours just to get from t ...
World’s Largest Chocolate Sculpture (9 Tons Of Chocolate)
Whoa! This is awesome! Breaking a world record seems to be a popular way to get a lot of free publicity lately. We see a lot of companies gather all their employees to break world records to celebrate their company's anniversary, to promote a good cause, or even just to raise morale. About six month ...
World’s Largest Chewed Gumball (Made From 95,200 Pieces Of Gum)
Dude, stop touching that thing! Haven't you ever heard of little beasties called germs? This story makes me gag a little, but it's so freaky and awesome that I had to share it with you anyway. Have you ever heard of anyone rolling around an ABC gumball like it was a piece of cookie dough? You're abo ...
The World’s Longest Receipt (Over 3,000 Items!)
This is one of those stories that will warm your heart. The wonderful people at Store Buyout heard that Hercules, the owner of a little grocery store in New York called Hercules Fancy Grocery, was about to lose his lease and go out of business. The only way he would be able to keep his store was if ...
World Record: 3,118 Coins Stacked On 1 Dime (This Is Insane!)
Have you ever checked out the website called Record Setter? It's a great place to waste a few minutes (or hours). There are all kinds of world records on there that you can check out like... The most people that can be crammed into a minivan, the most consecutive knuckle push-ups on a concrete floor ...