Graham Barker shows off 26 years’ worth of belly button lint. People who collect coins are called numismatists, and stamp collectors are known as philatelists, but what do you call a person who […]
When Collecting Stamps Just Doesn’t Do it For You
The Seeds of Death
Castor oil has been used for centuries as a laxative and all-purpose curative. Ironically, the same plant that makes possible this healthful oil also happens to be the world’s deadliest plant. The […]
Hot News on a Heated Debate: What is the Hottest Pepper?
The long-fought battle for the title of World’s Hottest Pepper has been resolved… at least for now. The Guinness Book of World Records has given the honor to the Carolina Reaper pepper. […]
Ministers Marry Lots of People… But Typically By Officiating, Not By Participating
Rev. Glynn “Scotty” Wolfe (1908 – 1997) holds the Guinness World Record for the largest number of monogamous marriages. Between 1926 and his death in 1997, Wolfe was married twenty-nine times to […]
It’s Bad Enough Being the Middle Child; Imagine Being #35 Out of 69
The record for the most children born to one woman belongs to Valentina Vassilyeva of Shuya, Russia, who gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets, and four sets […]
World’s Most Difficult Math Problem Took 357 Years to Solve
Pierre de Fermat (1605-1665) wrote in the margin of a book, next to the equation xn + yn = zn, “I have discovered a truly remarkable proof of this theorem which this margin […]
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