The famous YouTuber and writer just claimed a Guinness World Records title for the “most tip in sheets signed by an author in ...

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

Cath Bowie, based in Aberdeen in the UK, said she was "instantly intrigued" when she saw her grandson playing Fortnite. That was back in 2017, when Epic Games' famous multiplayer game first launched ...

The heaviest beetroot weighed 26.02 kg (57 lb 5.8 oz), and was grown by Vincent Sjodin (UK) as assessed at the CANNA UK National Giant Vegetables Championship – held at the Malvern Autumn Show – in ...

The oldest ever man to father a child was reportedly Les Colley (1898 - 1998, Australia), who had his ninth child a son named Oswald to his third wife at the age of 92 years 10 months. Colley met ...

The highest point of Neuschwanstein Castle overlooking the village of Hohenschwangau in Bavaria, Germany, rises 213 feet (65 metres) above ground. The Romanesque Revival castle was built upon the ...

In March 2018, a group of Russian speleologists – led by Pavel Demidov and Ilya Turbanov – descended to the bottom of the Veryovkina Cave in the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, north-west Georgia, ...

The loudest insect is the shrill thorntree cicada (Brevisana brevis), native to wooded areas of sub-Saharan Africa including Zambia, South Africa and Malawi, which produces a calling song with a mean ...

The world's tallest obelisk is the Washington Monument in Washington DC, USA. It stands 169 m (555 ft) tall and was completed in 1884 to honour George Washington, the first president of the United ...

The world’s first skyscraper was the Home Insurance Building in Chicago, erected in 1884-1885. The so-called “Father of the Skyscraper” towered all of 10 stories with its peak at 138 feet, miniature ...

The world's longest running TV commercial is the Discount Tire Company's Thank you commercial, produced by Swartwout Productions (Arizona, USA) and first aired in 1975. The same commercial has been ...

The lowest temperature in the northern hemisphere is -67.7°C (-90°F), recorded in Oymyakon (63°28'N, 142°23'E; 2018 est. pop. 500) in the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic of Russia on 6 February 1933. This is ...