world record

The good people at Top Gear just let the world know that the fastest production vehicle in the world comes from a company right here in eastern Washington. West Richland to be exact. A top speed of a whopping 331 miles per hour.

Washingtonians are very talented people. We have so many great and wonderful qualities, and apparently, we'll spend top dollar for a really great hot dog! Washington state holds several world records set by the brave few who wanted to hold really weird world records...

French rally-car driver Guerlain Chicherit attempted to set a new record for longest ramp jump of all time, but it ended in a horrific crash—all of it captured on GoPro video.

I want to call-out the guy in Texas who has the new record for the most expensive Starbucks drink.

RAB fitness of Kennewick hosted a power lifting event sanctioned by the United States Powerlifting Association. 107 athletes from all over the USA and Canada, competed for over $4000 in prize money. A world record was broken on Saturday February 15th by Kennewick resident Josh Spaeth

I don't know how much you can bench press . . . but I'm pretty sure I would have trouble benching 187 pounds right now.  Which officially means I'm weaker than a man who was born when Warren Harding was president.

We’re angry. Angry that somebody would take the time to make a cheeseburger so gigantic that it’s actually kind of disgusting, and not even invite us over to have some of it. Well, Black Bear Casino, you can guess where we WON’T be going for vacation this year.

Japan has some crazy shows, but their Guinness World Records TV series is somehow the craziest. You think we’re kidding, but in one episode a man named Tomoharu Shoji sets a world record by crushing 43 nuts in one minute… Oh, yeah, and he did it just by using his butt.

Thanks to the website RecordSetter, which allows folks to invent a world record in anything, many a wacky record was set and/or broken in 2011. Some of our favorite RecordSetter marks this year include the record  for two girls slapping each other with pizza, the record for most time spent simultaneously juggling, eating and balancing on “rola bola” and the man who set a world record for most quar

While our loose change typically languishes in a jar, this man uses coins in an extremely unique way. With the combined skill of countless bank tellers, Tai Star of Tuscon, AZ set a new record by stacking 3,118 coins on one dime, according to RecordSetter.com.

‘Paranormal Activity 3,’ the third installment in the horror film franchise, received a warm welcome at the box office this weekend, earning $54 million and a spot at the top of the charts in its first week of release.

You know you’re a star when your pregnancy breaks records. Reports state that after Beyoncé debuted her baby bump at the 2011 VMAs on Sunday night, 8,868 tweets were sent. Per second. That’s a record for most tweets posted per second.