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This Rhode Island pumpkin weighs 3,156 pounds. Yes, one pumpkin.
Guinness lists Ron Wallace’s October 10 weigh-in as the world record.
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Weird News & World Records
Read unusual U.S. stories, Guinness World Records, giant pumpkins and space milestones. Original sources explain the facts behind each story.
A 28-mile drive is a world record—when the road is on Mars.
NASA says Perseverance has overtaken Opportunity’s off-world distance total.
One Idaho family. Five people. A Guinness certificate for everyone.
David Rush’s wife and three children have joined him in the record book.
On this date in 1947, a Louisiana breakfast came with falling fish.
A new Guinness retrospective revisits one of the stranger accounts in American weather history.
More than 21 million record participants—and an Oakland music gathering in the mix.
Guinness’ October roundup shows how differently a group world record can look.