Guinness World Records

UVify Sets New Guinness World Record With 5,293 IFO Drones in Spectacular Aerial Display

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金曜日, 5月 3, 2024
Guinness, UAV, Guinness World Records, Safety, Unmanned aerial vehicle

UVify, the leader in swarm drone innovation, has achieved a new Guinness World Record for the most unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) airborne simultaneously.

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  • UVify, the leader in swarm drone innovation, has achieved a new Guinness World Record for the most unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) airborne simultaneously.
  • INCHEON, SOUTH KOREA, May 4, 2024 - (ACN Newswire) - UVify, the leader in swarm drone innovation, has achieved a new Guinness World Record for the most unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) airborne simultaneously.
  • This historic event took place in Songdo, Korea, where UVify orchestrated a breathtaking display of 5,293 IFO drones that lit up the night sky, setting a new global standard for drone technology and performance.
  • This event not only places UVify at the forefront of the UAV industry but also sets the stage for future advancements in drone technology.

703-Carat L'Heure Bleu Tanzanite Carving Sets New GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS(TM) Title as World's Largest Cut Tanzanite

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木曜日, 3月 28, 2024
Guinness, Guinness World Records, GUINNESS, Woman, Travel, Love, Mineral, Poverty, Patient, Work, Tanzanite, Eye disease, Gemstone

HILLSBORO, OR, Mar 29, 2024 - (ACN Newswire) - It was an exciting day at the Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks & Minerals, Hillsboro, Oregon,when artist Naomi Sarna's 703-carat L'Heure Bleu tanzanite carving set a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title as the world's largest cut tanzanite, on March 9.

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  • HILLSBORO, OR, Mar 29, 2024 - (ACN Newswire) - It was an exciting day at the Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks & Minerals, Hillsboro, Oregon,when artist Naomi Sarna's 703-carat L'Heure Bleu tanzanite carving set a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title as the world's largest cut tanzanite, on March 9.
  • A standing room only crowd witnessed the "weigh in" as Guinness World Records adjudicator, Michael Empric, verified and announced the results.
  • Rice Museum board president Gail Spann and museum director, Kim Vagner were also on hand for this historic event.
  • "The Guinness World Records brings international recognition and attention to my tanzanite carving L'Heure Bleu.

Monster Energy's Matt Dawson Attempts to Set Record for Fastest Crossing of Mojave Desert on Foot -- Completely Solo and Unsupported

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木曜日, 5月 9, 2024
Guinness World Records, Monster Energy, Atlantic Ocean, Foot, Jogging, Mojave Desert, FKT, Social media, Monster, Whaling

CORONA, Calif., May 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Matt Dawson is attempting to become the fastest person to ever walk across the Mojave Desert.

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  • CORONA, Calif., May 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Matt Dawson is attempting to become the fastest person to ever walk across the Mojave Desert.
  • The Monster Energy and 5.11 Tactical ambassador will this weekend attempt to set a brand-new Guinness Book and FKT (Fastest Known Time) record by making the grueling approximately 315-mile journey on foot — solo and unsupported.
  • If successful, Dawson will set the record for "Fastest Crossing of the Mojave Desert on Foot".
  • To set the record in the Guinness Book, he doesn't have to do it unsupported… but he's doing it anyway.

Ben Caballero Crushes the World Record for Annual US Home Sales

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火曜日, 4月 30, 2024
Guinness, MLS, Guinness World Records, United States Air Force, Parent, Software as a service, History, Multiple listing service, Real estate

DALLAS, April 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Ben Caballero, the No. 1-ranked real estate agent in the US for ten consecutive years by RealTrends and a three-time Guinness World Record title holder, smashed his own world record for both the number of annual home sales and the annual transaction volume last year. According to Multiple Listing Service data, in 2023, Caballero individually sold an unprecedented 7,012 homes totaling $3.638 billion.

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  • 1-ranked real estate agent in the US for ten consecutive years by RealTrends and a three-time Guinness World Record title holder, smashed his own world record for both the number of annual home sales and the annual transaction volume last year.
  • According to Multiple Listing Service data, in 2023, Caballero individually sold an unprecedented 7,012 homes totaling $3.638 billion.
  • Among his other firsts as a real estate agent:
    First individual agent to reach $1 billion or more in annual sales (2015, 2016, 2017, 2021)
    First individual agent to reach $2 billion or more in annual sales (2018, 2019, 2020)
    First individual agent to reach $3 billion or more in annual sales (2022, 2023)
    Ben Caballero became a Guinness World Record holder title for the first time in 2016 with 3,556 verified home sales.
  • He set a new world record in 2018 with 5,801 home sales and again in 2020 with 6,438 home sales and remains the current title holder.

New Research Reveals What Each Country Has That's Bigger Than any Other Country, Including Some Weird Things

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火曜日, 4月 30, 2024
Observation, Guinness World Records, Research

CLAYMONT, Del., April 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Every country in the world presumably has something that's gigantic when compared to the other countries. To gain some insight, Size Graf has performed their own research using Guinness World Records to find out what each country has that's bigger than the other countries. The research findings revealed there are several weird items among the most giant things worldwide.

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  • The results show that some of the relatively hugest things in different countries are weird and unexpected.
  • CLAYMONT, Del., April 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Every country in the world presumably has something that's gigantic when compared to the other countries.
  • To gain some insight, Size Graf has performed their own research using Guinness World Records to find out what each country has that's bigger than the other countries.
  • The research findings revealed there are several weird items among the most giant things worldwide.

Sibel Health awarded a major grant to advance maternal monitoring solution for low-and-middle income countries.

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火曜日, 4月 23, 2024
Mortality, FDA, University, UN, University of Edinburgh, Tech, NIH, Risk, Woman, Pregnancy, NIHR, Health, Consultant, Death, Data science, Maternal health, Vital signs, Partnership, Acceleration, Transplant surgeon, Guinness World Records, Entrepreneurship, Guinness, Patient, Bill, Melinda French Gates, Royal, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Medical device

CHICAGO, April 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Sibel Health, an award-winning health technology company backed by the Steele Foundation for Hope , announced it has received a $17.5 million dollar grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to advance the use of its FDA-cleared wireless monitoring solution, ANNE® One, for labor triage and continuous maternal health monitoring in low-and-middle income countries (LMICs) to reduce obstetrical morbidity and mortality.

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  • CHICAGO, April 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Sibel Health, an award-winning health technology company backed by the Steele Foundation for Hope , announced it has received a $17.5 million dollar grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to advance the use of its FDA-cleared wireless monitoring solution, ANNE® One, for labor triage and continuous maternal health monitoring in low-and-middle income countries (LMICs) to reduce obstetrical morbidity and mortality.
  • "Sibel Health was spun out of Northwestern University and founded from an initial grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation given our commitment to maternal neonatal health.
  • Vital signs are vital—and every pregnant person deserves to have their vitals checked," said Steve Xu MD, CEO and Co-Founder of Sibel Health.
  • Most recently, the Gates Foundation has invested more than $100 million dollars in bringing point of care ultrasound to LMICs for maternal health.

Hult International Business School Breaks GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ title for Class Diversity

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木曜日, 3月 14, 2024
Professional Services, Education, Business, Other Education, Continuing, University, Training, International Business School, Congo, Crisis, Guinness World Records, Student, Guinness, International business, Democratic republic, Hult International Business School, GUINNESS

Hult International Business School has broken the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ title for the “Most Nationalities in a Business Lesson.” Over 90 members of the Hult community came together at Hult’s Holborn campus in London on March 13, 2024, smashing the minimum of 50 nationalities in one business class to set the record.

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  • Hult International Business School has broken the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ title for the “Most Nationalities in a Business Lesson.” Over 90 members of the Hult community came together at Hult’s Holborn campus in London on March 13, 2024, smashing the minimum of 50 nationalities in one business class to set the record.
  • Students were thrilled to take part:
    “I feel like this was very representative of what’s normal at Hult.
  • In my class alone, we’re represented by at least thirty different nations—and we only have a total of 60 people in our cohort,”—Tomaz Nicolai Diaz, US, Master’s in International Business.
  • All attendees, which included undergraduate and postgraduate representatives, were required to stay for the entire 45-minute class to meet the requirements of Guinness World Records.

ASHANTI TO JOIN POSSIBLE

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木曜日, 4月 4, 2024
Fontainebleau Miami Beach, Luminate (company), Guinness, Culture, Pretty Little Thing, Love, VIP, Beauty, American Music Awards, Boy, Female, Herbal Essences, African Americans, Jump start, Billboard Music Awards, Poetry, Soul Train Music Awards, AMC, Music, Cîroc, GRAMMY, Marketing, Guinness World Records, Billboard

NEW YORK, April 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Beyond Ordinary Events, Inc. and POSSIBLE, the premier marquee marketing event, announced today GRAMMY Award-winning singer-songwriter, actor and author will join the lineup in Miami Beach on Wednesday, April 17.

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  • Ashanti burst onto the music scene with her platinum-selling, self-titled debut album, Ashanti.
  • "I'm excited to have Ashanti join us at Miami Beach.
  • She continues to explore many avenues throughout her career, bringing her immense and varied experience in brand ambassadorship and the business of the music industry to the POSSIBLE stage," said Christian Muche, CEO and Co-Founder of Beyond Ordinary Events & POSSIBLE.
  • She launched her clothing line, in collaboration with Miss Circle, and partnered with Pretty Little Thing to create her own swimsuit line, "Ashanti."

Soapy Joe's Celebrates Ninth Annual Soapy Joe's Day with Free Car Washes and Aims to Set New Guinness World Record

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木曜日, 3月 28, 2024
Guinness, Volunteering, SAN, Convoy, Marketing, Guinness World Records, DNA, High five

SAN DIEGO, March 28, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Soapy Joe's Car Wash, an award-winning and family-owned car wash operator with 23 locations, today announced April 18, 2024, as the ninth annual Soapy Joe's Day and will celebrate by offering the public free Magic Joe car washes ($20 value) and aims to set a new Guinness World Record for most high fives by a mascot in one minute. The festivities also include Soapy Joe's merchandise giveaways to the first 75 customers at each of its locations and a one-day limited-edition air freshener drop.

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  • The festivities also include Soapy Joe's merchandise giveaways to the first 75 customers at each of its locations and a one-day limited-edition air freshener drop.
  • "We've been proudly serving San Diego as a family-owned business for over a decade," said Soapy Joe's Founder and CEO Lorens Attisha.
  • "Soapy Joe's Day is one of the many ways we give back to the community that has supported us all these years.
  • City of San Diego councilman Kent Lee will present a proclamation marking April 18 Soapy Joe's Day at 10 a.m. at the Convoy location.

Paul Johnson to run from Los Angeles to New York City in World Record attempt benefiting veterans’ nonprofit Team Red, White & Blue (Team RWB)

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木曜日, 2月 22, 2024
Social media, Anxiety, Mental health, Guinness, Health, Physical fitness, Blue and White, White, Veteran, Social, Navy, Team, Nightmare, Guinness World Records, Meditation, Depression, Nursing

“Paul’s transcontinental run is inspiring all of us at Team RWB,” said Mike Erwin, Founder and Executive Director of Team RWB. “His story is a real-life example of the power of physical fitness in improving veterans’ mental health and overall well-being. We are honored that Paul chose to support our organization with all those miles he's about to run---and we're fired up to stand behind him every step of the way.”

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  • Johnson aims to complete his transcontinental journey, presented by GOREWEAR, in just 40 days, significantly faster than the current 42-day Guinness World Record held by ultrarunner Pete Kostelnick.
  • “Paul’s transcontinental run is inspiring all of us at Team RWB,” said Mike Erwin, Founder and Executive Director of Team RWB.
  • Johnson will kick off the first mile of his journey at 8 a.m. with fellow veterans from Team RWB running behind him.
  • For more information on Paul Johnson’s Transcontinental Run and to contribute to his fundraising campaign for Team RWB, please visit https://www.pauljohnson.run/donate .