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254 people in Queensland Australia broke the world record for the largest aqua aerobics class. The Bundamba Swim Centre hosted the class and students’ fees raised funds for the Ipswich Hospital Foundation. It’s summer in Australia, so dancing to “YMCA” in the pool was a great way to exercise in the heat!
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In honor of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, students at Lincoln Elementary School in Louisville Kentucky set a new world record. 556 people donned stovepipe hats and black paper beards to become the largest group to dress as Abe Lincoln. What a nice 209th birthday present for Honest Abe!
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The world’s biggest delivery pizza showed up at the Southgate Michigan Fire Department. If Steve Mallie had made the 72 inch pizza any larger, it wouldn’t fit through most doors. A cheese pizza sells for $300, but profits went to the Brownstown Animal Shelter. Tomorrow’s mammoth delivery pizzas will be donated to Anderson Elementary School!
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Imagine if your head weighed 48 pounds! A bighorn sheep skull discovered in Montana is the world’s largest. It’s massive horns curl around for nearly 50 inches and are over 17 inches in circumference. The sheep had died of natural causes on an island in Flathead Lake. Maybe so many people complimented him that he got a big head!
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When you walk through the halls of New Trier High School in Winnetka Illinois, you might feel like you’re seeing double. The sophomore class of 1000 students contains 44 sets of twins and one set of triplets! Luke and Ryan Novosel applied to Guinness and the 91 students now officially hold the world record.
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A standard cat has 18 toes: 5 on the front paws and 4 on the back. But Paws from Minnesota is an overachieving cat. She has 28 toes! The polydactyl cat is tied for the world record with a Canadian cat named Jake. Between the two of them, they could count to 56!
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Glenn Quillin celebrated turning 102 in California by becoming the oldest person to ride a zip line! If he lived in the United Arab Emirates, he could set his world record on another world record: the 1.75 mile Ras Al Khaimah is the world’s longest zip line. You can fly 93 miles per hour in the mountains!
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There’s more to do than see the Super Bowl if you’re in Saint Paul Minnesota today. You can ride on the world’s longest zip line across the Mississippi River! The Bold North Zip Line is 110 feet tall and nearly 800 feet long. 10,000 tickets have been sold for the quickest way across the Mississippi.
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A robotics company called Robochamps and 1200 students in northern India just broke a world record! They were part of the world’s biggest robotics class. Students in Panchkula made robots with the help of Kautilya Pandit, the child prodigy known as Google boy. Too bad they didn’t get to take the robots home!
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A team of divers called PTO Exploration set a new world record for deepest dive under ice. The group dove 433 feet into Mazinaw Lake in Ontario Canada. The world record was a bonus; the team’s purpose was to search for Indigenous artifacts beneath 1500 year-old pictographs painted on a rock face. More explorations are planned.
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