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World's Tallest Teen: Young Thai Woman 2 Inches Taller Than LeBron

At 6 feet 10 inches tall and 287 pounds, Malee Duangdee towers over her parents and, frankly, all other 19-year-olds on Earth. Even by NBA standards, that's impressive. This young woman is a full 2 inches taller than LeBron James. But her height has come at a price: She's lost her friends and her sight. The eastern...

Schools Turn to Setting Guinness World Records to Make Class Time Fun

Students in Bloomfield, Colo., have plans to break a record for the world's largest game of hide-and-seek, while pupils in Nantucket, Mass., hope to don costumes to eclipse the mark for most people dressed as storybook characters. Why can't school always be this much fun? The rush to get into the history books -- instead...

Centenarian Grannies Battle for 'World's Oldest Person' Title

It may not be a rivalry that plays out on "Dancing with the Stars." But when Rebecca Lanier celebrated her birthday last week with a gala in Ohio, it certainly raised some eyebrows in Georgia. Why? Because Lanier was celebrating her 119th birthday. Only a week earlier, Guinness World Records officials had visited the...

Philadelphia Breast Surgeon Moonlights as Knife Thrower

Meet Dr. Ted Eisenberg, holder of the world record for the most breast surgeries performed in a lifetime. Rest assured, ladies -- you're probably in safe hands. Not content with handling scalpels all day, in his spare time Eisenberg is a competitive knife thrower. Inspired by fictional Australian outback hero Crocodile...

Lil Wayne Crushes Oreo for Most Facebook Likes World Record

People like Lil Wayne more than they like Oreos, at least on Facebook. Today the rapper won the Guinness World Record for most Facebook likes on a single post in 24 hours, with 588,243 likes on this post. (It was up to 621,207 likes as of publication time.) As of Tuesday, Oreo had held the record, with 114,619 likes on...

Background on Guinness Book of World Records

Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records (and in previous U.S. editions as The Guinness Book of World Records), is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

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