The World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in California sets the mood for Halloween every year. This year, a new record was set with a giant pumpkin weighing in at 1,658 pounds--more than 100 pounds over the old record.

Linus...

By now you've certainly heard the story of Caster Semenya, the South African female runner who shattered the 800 meter record at the World Championships late Wednesday night ... only to be told that authorities aren't...

Seeing how Usain Bolt broke his own preposterous world record in the 100 meter sprint despite an injury plagued training season earlier this week in Berlin made it seem almost like an afterthought that the sprinter would...

Usain Bolt set a new world record at the 100 meter distance on Sunday, shaving a full 1/10 of a second off his previous best, set last August in Beijing at the Olympics (yes, 1/10 of a second is an enormous amount). Sure, you...

Tightrope walker Samat Hasan broke a Guinness World Record on April 26th by doing his thing for 700 meters at a 39-degree angle. Think you can match him? Check out the ground below at 0:20, and then decide.

Sahan Dosova says she's 130 years old. Her family, passport (birth date 3/27/1879), the Kazakhstan government and doctor back up her claims, but she's lacking a birth certificate because she was supposedly born before they...

David Price and the fellas at Black20's The Middle Show crashed Comic Con for the third straight year, and it was productive; they caught some nerds, set a world record, and even kissed a girl. Not bad, dudes.

You could do worse things in your life than attend a two-hour show in the Netherlands that set the record for the number of dominoes toppled in one sitting. We wonder what would have happened if there had been an ill-timed...

On Halloween, 73 zombies came together in New York City to break the record of the most people simultaneously dancing to Michael Jackson's "Thriller." There are about 1,500 jail inmates in the Philippines who might argue with...

Sharp-eyed Daily Tubers will recall that we ran a short preview of this web series during the WGA mess. It took awhile, but Strike TV launched this week and we get to witness the button-down mind of a comedy legend. We'd...

Iran has set the record for the world's biggest sandwich with the help of dozens of cooks and plenty of ostriches. Get your head out of the sand, ostrich meat is healthier, low in fat and high in protein...but if you want to...

If we were as fast as Usain Bolt of Jamaica, we would celebrate like that, too.  (You know, the real Bolt just about held such a party during the real race.)

Some guitar heroes still play the real guitar, like this guy who starts out playing fast and then bursts into insane speed. The Flight of the Bumblebee begins as a frenzied, zig-zaggy song, but it's a slow waltz compared to...

In case you weren't aware - and we certainly weren't - there's an official world record for most head spins in a minute. Well, now that record is held by Ono Aichi, a breakdancer from Osaka, Japan who turned a gawking crowd...

Evel Knievel said it couldn't be done, but Australian Robbie Maddison broke the record for the longest motorcycle jump. Are you impressed? Well, he did it twice! His fiance looked on with utter fear as he reached 322 ft. 7.5"...