Meet Sir Nils Olav: The Norwegian Army's Penguin Officer - Guinness World Records
Sir Nils Olav is a male king penguin who holds the rank of Major General of the Norwegian Royal Guards. Sir Nils resides at Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland, UK, where he was bestowed the rank in 2023 – a promotion from his previous rank of Brigaider held since 2016. In 2008, he was also granted a knighthood by King Harald V of Norway.
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Building The Largest Playing Card Structure - Guinness World Records
Arnav Daga (India) has loved card-stacking since he was 8 years old, and during the Covid-19 lockdown it became his passion to achieve a Guinness World Records title. After years of practice, he felt ready for it.
He built a structure using around 143,000 playing cards. It features 4 landmarks from Kolkata (Shaheed Minar, St Paul's Cathedral, Salt Lake Stadium, and Writer's Building) and took 41 days to complete.
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At Guinness World Records we want to show that everyone in the world is the best at something, and we’re here to measure it! Whether you’ve got the stretchiest skin, know the world’s smallest dog or want to create the largest human dominoes chain we want to hear about it.
Here on the Guinness World Records YouTube channel we want to showcase incredible talent. If you're looking for videos featuring the world's tallest, shortest, fastest, longest, oldest and most incredible things on the planet, you're in the right place.
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Highest Cricket Ball Catch - Guinness World Records
This drone stunt saw England cricket legend Nasser Hussain achieve the highest catch of a cricket ball.
In a challenge organised by Sky Sports Cricket at the renowned Lord's Cricket Ground in London, Hussain managed to catch a cricket ball dropped from a Batcam drone which hovered in the air at 32 metres (104 ft 11.8 in) high. Nasser then took on a bigger challenge...
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At Guinness World Records we want to show that everyone in the world is the best at something, and we’re here to measure it! Whether you’ve got the stretchiest skin, know the world’s smallest dog or want to create the largest human dominoes chain we want to hear about it.
Here on the Guinness World Records YouTube channel we want to showcase incredible talent. If you're looking for videos featuring the world's tallest, shortest, fastest, longest, oldest and most incredible things on the planet, you're in the right place.
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