world records

We took a look to see what Guinness World Records were held by people in Louisiana or achieved in Louisiana and found some pretty off-beat and amazing records you probably didn't know existed.

When you've got a special talent or crazy skill you want to show off that special thing and hopefully set a world record while performing it. Several East Texans have done just that, set records, that stand in the book of Guinness World Records!

Surprisingly, our world record has nothing to do with Mardi Gras, crawfish or weird city names.

A farmer in India recently became the world's oldest dad at 96-years-old. But what's even more impressive is that he broke a record set by himself two years prior. How the heck does this guy keep going?

Setting any kind of record must be pretty awesome. Having the lowest voice on the planet or making the largest Frito pie in all of crunchy snack history garners major bragging rights. It seems like everyone these days wants to take a crack at making things bigger, better, or taller, but in the case of Nerina Orton, she’s aiming for small. Really, really small.

Ron Wallace was able to grow a pumpkin to 2,009 pounds. And now the Greene, RI man is $15,500 richer for it.

How low can you go? Tim Storms might be tired of that question, but he’d probably be willing to bet you a large sum of money (if he’s a betting man) that he can sing a heck of a lot lower than you, or anyone you know, can.  Tim’s deep register is so low, in fact, that Guinness World Records named his voice as the lowest human voice on the planet.

The not always reliable British tabloid The Sun reports that a woman in the UK gave NATURAL birth of a 12 pound 12 ounce baby girl, named Suzie Tevendale, in only 44 minutes. The tot claims the record as being the heaviest girl ever born in the UK by about 3oz.

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

A social worker from New Orleans makes it into the Guiness Book of World Records for her "doo".