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An Austrian man who calls himself the King of the Freaks appeared on German TV and threaded ten uninflated balloons through his nose and out his mouth in under sixty seconds, claiming a Guinness World Record. He prepared by testing various balloon brands and lightly oiling each one — because apparently that is the kind of thing a person optimises for.
All 12 teams in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball league will swap out their regular bases for golden Super Mario question blocks at least once this season, in a Nintendo-sponsored takeover that runs from late April through August. Players will not receive power-ups when rounding the bases, because apparently someone had to make that call.
Fifty-five runners from 18 countries descended over 3,600 feet into a working Swedish mine and ran a full 26.2-mile marathon — wearing headlamps, sweating through the humidity, and breaking a Guinness World Record in the process. They also raised around $1 million for charity, which is somehow not the most impressive part of that sentence.