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Swedish stunt rider performs handlebar wheelie at 125 mph

A Swedish stunt rider broke a Guinness World Record when he reached a speed of 125.93 mph while leaning on his handlebars and doing a wheelie.

Magnus Carlsson, 51, performed the stunt on his KTM 1290 Super Duke motorcycle at Skövde Airport in Sweden and broke the record for the fastest motorcycle handlebar wheelie.

Carlsson reached a top speed of 125.93 mph, or 202.67 kilometers per hour, becoming the first holder of the record to break 200 kmph. The previous record stood at 109.228 mph, or 175.785 kmph, and was set in 2020.

"The handlebar wheelie is my absolute favorite stunt of all, and one of the stunts that took the most attention during my career as a stunt rider," Carlsson told Guinness World Records.

"The first time I did a handlebar wheelie was in 1992," he said. "Three years later I made a record attempt at Skövde Airport in Sweden. Since a few handlebar wheelie record runs over the years have been made and documented by Guinness World Records, I wanted to make a record attempt while I still have the bike and the knowledge and try to break the 200 kmph handlebar wheelie."

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Minnesota Ice Festival boasts world's largest ice maze

The Minnesota Ice Festival's 18,148.88-square-foot ice maze has been officially certified as the largest in the world by Guinness World Records.

The festival's maze, which features 8-foot-high walls and multiple twists and turns, took the record from a Buffalo, N.Y., ice maze that covered an area of 13,000 square feet in 2010.

Robbie Harrell, founder and CEO of festival organizer Minnesota Ice, said construction on the maze at Tco Stadium in Eagan began Dec. 1, and gravel and plywood were spread out across the field to protect the turf.

The maze was then constructed from 3,452 blocks of ice, each weighing about 425 pounds.

The maze was completed Jan. 4, and ice sculptures and lights were then installed prior to a visit by a Guinness World Records adjudicator.

Harrell said the festival will hopefully run through Feb. 16, depending on weather conditions.

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Swedish duo breaks record for 13-hour table tennis rally

Swedish table tennis enthusiasts Emil Ohlsson and Fredrik Nilsson, known as the Spin Duo, have set a new record for the longest table tennis rally, lasting 13 hours, 37 minutes and 6 seconds.

The marathon match occurred on July 20, 2024, at Slice Malmö, a ping-pong bar in Malmö, Sweden.

Over four months of intense physical and mental training paid off as the duo lobbed the ball back and forth without a single break, cheered on by friends and family who celebrated with champagne at the finish.

The record-breaking rally required unwavering focus, even as the players multitasked, such as eating while keeping the ball in play. Technical support monitored the rally, which had to be continuous with no breaks between passes.

When they surpassed the previous record, held by two players from the U.K. since June, the Spin Duo cheered.

In March, a table tennis club in Northern Ireland completed for a Guinness World Record for most consecutive opponents in a table tennis rally.

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Turkish woman establishes world record for watermelons crushed with thighs

A Turkish woman who squashed five watermelons within a 60-second timeframe, using only her thighs, has set a world record.

Guiness World Records shared a video Friday of Gozde Dogan completing the challenge.

The clip shows Dogan sitting between two rows of watermelons, grabbing them one at a time, crushing them, and then cleaning the mess before continuing.

She is handed a plaque and told she is "officially amazing," becoming the first person to earn the distinction of using the thighs to smash the most watermelons in 60 seconds, in the female category.

Dogan broke the record in February.

In 2017, an Iranian man made history for smashing three watermelons quicker than anyone ever had.

In 2023, the same man, Ashkan Rohollah Doshmanziari set a record for stacking four watermelons on top of one another.

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Rangers rescue goose 10,000 feet up a California mountain

The U.S. Forest Service said rangers stationed in the California mountains came to the rescue of "a particularly unprepared Mount Shasta climber" — a goose.

The Forest Service's Shasta-Trinity National Forest team said on social media that rangers stationed at the Mount Shasta Avalanche Center were on a routine patrol when they came across a goose that somehow ended up at Old Ski Bowl at an elevation of 10,000 feet.

"Upon our rangers' arrival, the climber (flyer?) had on only one layer of down and was neither prepared for the temperature nor overnight camping," the post said.

Rangers Nick Meyers and Eric Falconer "were able to offer the goose a quick descent to a local pond at lower elevations before returning to regular duties," officials wrote.

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Coyote makes 'a mistake,' winds up in Aldi refrigerated shelf

A confused coyote was removed from a grocery store's refrigerated shelf Monday morning.

The incident occurred at a Chicago-area Aldi store, where the animal apparently sought refuge in the store's produce aisle.

"It picked an odd location. They do this sometimes. They make a mistake," Cook County Coyote Project's Stan Gehrt told ABC7 Chicago. "They're trying to avoid us. They're trying to hide from us."

He added that the animals that typically find themselves in this situation are the ones that haven't yet settled down with a mate.

The coyote was removed from the store without injury.

A video posted to social media shows a police officer using the back end of a broom to prod the coyote before pulling it out by the tail.

The post accumulated nearly 8 million views and over 1,000 comments.

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Clerk's pick lands customer $500K lotto win in South Carolina

Sometimes, a little trust goes a long way — especially at the Carolina Pantry #8 on Sumter Highway in Manning, South Carolina.

A customer walked into the convenience store looking for a lottery ticket and let the store clerk choose for them. That $10 Shimmering Riches scratch-off turned out to be a life-changing decision, winning the customer $500,000.

The anonymous winner recalled thinking, "Let it be the big one." Moments later, their wish came true.

"I fell to my knees," the winner said when claiming the next-to-last top prize in the game. "This has changed my life."

The odds of winning half-a-million dollars in the Shimmering Riches game is one in 1,128,000. The Manning store earned a $5,000 commission for selling the winning ticket.

In December, a Kalamazoo County, Mich., man hit the jackpot with a $626,575 Fantasy 5 win, thanks to a set of numbers made up of special dates. He had played those same numbers for 25 years.

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Police find reported iguana on highway shoulder was stuffed toy

Police in British Columbia responded to a report of a 4-foot-long "live iguana" on the shoulder of a busy highway, but arrived to find the alleged lizard was a stuffed toy.

Mission RCMP said on social media that a caller reported seeing the "large live iguana" on the shoulder of Lougheed Highway, near Shook Street.

"Although some people may have immediately thought that such a report could not be true, any experienced officer will tell you that there are many times in this job that we encounter all sorts of peculiar situations, so this report could not be completely dismissed," the post said.

Officials wrote that officers "have extensive training to deal with a variety of situations, but iguana-wrangling is not one of them."

"Fortunately, the officers that were dispatched to the call had three necessary tools at their disposal: a dog-catching pole, a large crate, and extraordinary bravery."

The officers slowly approached the iguana's location "until they were close enough to confirm it was anatomically incorrect, and it was, in fact, a stuffed iguana, designed to look very realistic," the RCMP said.

Police shared an image of the offending toy, reminding social media users to "keep in mind that motorists saw it while traveling at highway speeds."

Mission RCMP urged residents to contact police "if you are missing your stuffed lizard."

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Mysterious green light over Ontario 'most likely' a meteor

A mysterious green light caught on camera in the night sky over Ontario was "most likely" a meteor, one expert said.

A Stittsville resident's doorbell camera captured footage of the green light appearing to fall out of the sky about 9:15 p.m. Tuesday.

The International Meteor Organization logged numerous reports of a fireball sighting at the same time in Ontario, Quebec, and New York.

Gary Boyle, aka The Backyard Astronomer, told CTV News the object could have been a meteor or "even space junk, but most likely a small piece of the leftover material that created the solar system."

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Puzzle prodigy breaks Guinness World Record in Kentucky

A Kentucky teenager with a talent for solving a type of puzzle known as a 15 puzzle broke a Guinness World Record by solving 10 of them in 1 minute, 16.13 seconds.

John Bradley, a senior at Sayre School in Lexington, said he started solving 15 puzzles in the middle school. The puzzles feature sliding tiles numbered 1-15 and the solver has to arrange them into numerical order.

Bradley said he started out on a digital version of the puzzle that was installed on the computers he used in middle school, and soon developed a talent for solving them, even participating in competitions as a "speedslider."

"Through my searches, through my competitions and stuff like that, I figured out that this Guinness World Record actually kind of seems breakable," Bradley told LEX 18 news. "I started practicing for like four months straight. I was just doing a few of these every single day."

The record to beat for speed-solving 10 puzzles was 1 minute, 23 seconds. Bradley smashed the record with a time of 1 minute, 16.13 seconds.

"Honestly, it's unbelievable. It's kind of crazy. When I was younger I never thought that this would happen. This is kind of insane," Bradley said.

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