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Guinness World Records

World’s Oldest Tortoise Has Lived Through 40 US Presidents

Jonathan, the oldest tortoise of the Seychelles, just celebrated his 191st birthday, securing his position as the world's oldest living land animal for another year. The reptile has been calling the remote south Atlantic island of Saint Helena his...

World’s Oldest Cat Sets New Record

A 26-year-old British feline in southeast London has set a new world record for the oldest living cat. The Guinness World Records confirmed that Flossie, a beautiful brown and black, looks just as good and is just as playful as...

Man Breaks Record After 84 Years at Same Company

A 100-year-old Brazilian man named Walter Orthmann has broken the Guinness World Record after working for eighty-four years at the same textile company as verified this year in a press release. Orthmann was born in Brusque, a small town in...

Betty White Earns Guinness World Record

Betty White has another accomplishment to add to her lengthy Hollywood career: she's made the 2014 Guinness World Records. The 91-year-old actress of Greek descent earned the title, "Longest Career for an Entertainer (Female)." Having worked in the industry for...

Giant Cretan Dakos Claims Guinness Record

Cretans say they made the world's biggest dakos - a local specialty - a giant work of 7.45 meters, mixing together vegetables with rusks for the treat that Greeks love, and claiming they set a Guinness World Record for...

Giant Dakos Aspires for Guinness World Records

The cultural association To Rhodo in Chania, Crete, is making a giant dakos. For those who may not know, dakos is a Cretan meze, consisting of a slice of soaked dried bread or barley rusk (paximadi) topped with chopped...