Many of us anticipated a triumph, and so it came to pass: after only one week, Adele’s latest album, 25, sold a seismic 3.38 million copies in the United States alone. No artist has approached such wild numbers since Nielsen Music (and before them SoundScan) began measuring record sales in 1991.
A burst of heavy snow this afternoon nudged Boston over the threshold the city needed to break its all-time snowfall record. The airport reported 2.9 inches of snow at 7:00 PM EDT, bringing the seasonal total to 108.6 inches, or one inch above the previous all-time record set in 1995-1996. Snowfall records in Boston…
In May this year, an untitled Joan Mitchell painting from 1960 sold at an auction for $11.9 million, setting the record for highest selling artwork by female artist. That is, until Thursday this week, when a 1932 Georgia O'Keeffe painting, Jimson Weed/Whilte Flower No 1 (pictured below), surpassed that, selling for…
Urban Outfitters is now the leading seller of vinyl albums which have seen huge increases in overall sales during the past few years.
It's only been a few short years since J-Law entered the hearts and minds of the movie-going public. She was excellent in Winter's Bone, delightful in Silver Linings Playbook and every young girl's personal hero when she played "The Girl on Fire." Now, she's in the Guinness Book of World Records. You, me and everyone…
Competitive eater Molly Schuyler is back, destroying yet another record and becoming a Texas legend in the process.
This is Amou Haji. He is 80 years old, he lives in Southern Iran, and for the last 60 years he has not taken a bath, because he believes"cleanliness brings him sickness," according to the Tehran Times.
Catching Fire, the second installment of The Hunger Games saga is not actually an experimental art house film about a family arguing over a pizza order as they play an epic game of Monopoly, crossed the $400-million mark at the domestic box office this week. With a domestic haul of $409.4 million, the Jennifer…
Congratulations, Lee Sang-Hwa! The South Korean speed skater broke her own world record in the 500 meter "for the third time in eight days!" That amazing! I figured out how get my DVR to record three shows at once. So there's that.
Diana Nyad has made landfall (hurricane humor, sorry) just moments ago, which means that the crowd gathered at Key West is right this moment cheering her for successfully hauling herself out of the briny deep.
After failing last year (and the time before that, and the time before that, and the time before that…) to swim the 103 miles from Cuba to Florida, crawl exhausted onto the beaches at Key West, and enjoy a mojito Fidel Castro made and bottled in a small, shark-proof thermos, endurance swimmer Diana Nyad was, as of…
A woman from northern Texas has just obliterated the Guinness world record for donated breast milk by untapping her bounteous milk ducts and pouring forth 86.8 gallons of sustenance. The cup of infants everywhere indeed runneth over.
OH. MAH. GAH. This tiny terrier, from Poland, is named Meysi — and standing at the height of a bottle of nail polish, she might be the smallest dog in the entire world.
The purported oldest woman in the world has died and the only question anyone seems capable of asking is, "Yeah, but was she really 132? That seems made up." Antisa Khvichava, hailing from Georgia (as in, the country of) claimed to have been born on July 8, 1880, which would mean that she was 31-years-old when the …
Diana Nyad, the 62-year-old endurance swimmer attempting to be the first person to ever swim from Cuba to Florida without the aid of a shark cage, was forced to end her quest this morning after a series of overnight circumstances created too dangerous of an environment, including the increasing presence of sharks and…
Diana Nyad, the 62-year-old distance swimmer with a nagging desire to be the first person ever to swim successfully from Cuba to Florida, set off Saturday on her 103-mile journey through the shark- and jellyfish-infested bathwater that separates her from the record books. Though she'd planned on beginning her swim…
An 88-member women's skydiving team in Russia broke a world record this week when they completed a red, white and blue flower-formation dive, which, judging by how pretty it looks, was really, really, hard. It was so hard, in fact, that it took the Pearls of Russia three attempts because everyone in the group has to…
The strongest girl in the world may very well be a 10-year-old from Fair Lawn, NJ named Naomi Kutin, who can lift more than twice her 99-pound body weight. According to a profiled in The Jewish Daily Forward, Kutin can squat just about 215 pounds and, during the first weekend in July, set two new regional records…
What would happen if Diana Nyad (best swimmer name ever), the 63-year-old endurance swimmer who is making a fourth attempt to swim the 103 miles of shark-attack warm water from Florida to Cuba, were confronted with a hungry shark mid-stroke? Ha! Trick question — sharks know not to fuck with the broad-shouldered Nyad…
Handsome boys with coordination. Records. What more could you ask for on a dreary Monday?
