A year on from growing a record pumpkin with his twin brother, Ian Paton has returned to establish a new horticultural ...

Dropping nearly four metres on a mountain bike is enough to make most people slam on the brakes, but for Mario Neurauter (Austria), it was an opportunity to take his riding to new heights. With dreams ...

The world’s oldest man João Marinho Neto (Brazil) is celebrating his 114 th birthday today! And in a beautiful display of friendship from across the world, he and the world’s second oldest man, ...

The longest natural beard locks ever (male) belonged to Hans N. Langseth (Norway, b. 1846) and measured 5.33 m (17 ft 6 in) at the time of his burial in Kensett, Iowa in 1927. It was presented to the ...

The largest mailbox measures 162.63 m³ (5,743.41 ft³) and was created by Jim Bolin (USA) and verified in Casey, Illinois, USA, on 20 October 2015. There is a hidden stairway located in the post stand ...

Built originally as a private road for King Fahd (SAU), the stretch of Highway 10 connecting Highway 75 in the Haradh area to Highway 95 in the west of Saudi Arabia is 240 km (149 mi) long. It cuts ...

The narrowest street is in Reutlingen, Germany. It is called Spreuerhofstrasse and is measures 31 cm (1 ft 0.2 in) at its narrowest point and 50 cm (1 ft 7.68 in) at its widest point. The street was ...

The world's largest wild cat is the Siberian or Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), native to eastern Russia, north-east China and North Korea. Males, which are bigger than females, typically have a ...

Before there were motion pictures, as we think of them, there was motion photography, first achieved when Eadweard Muybridge used multiple cameras in 1878 to make “The Horse in Motion.” The project ...

The largest speeding fine is a reported $290,000 (£180,000) ticket given to an anonymous Swiss motorist who was caught driving 137 km/h (85 mph) in a 80 km/h (50 mph) zone in a village near St. Gallen ...

The Old Course at St Andrews Links in Fife, Scotland, UK, is the oldest golf course in the world. Archbishop Hamilton's Charter in 1552 is the earliest documentary evidence that allowed the people of ...

The tallest tree currently living is a specimen of Sequoia sempervirens in Redwood National Park in California, USA. Nicknamed Hyperion, the coast redwood was discovered by Chris Atkins and Michael ...