Guinness celebrates crazy, zany records

NEW YORK — Do you know the highest average grossing movie franchise in history? That's easy, Avatar. What about the record for the most balloons popped in one minute by a pogostick? Or the longest journey in a pumpkin boat?

These and many more superlatives are in the latest edition of the Guinness World Records, which has taken our watery world as its theme for its 2024 edition. That means there are extra entries for aquatic record-breakers and the largest octopuses among the 2,638 achievements.

"To me, the best records are the ones that you tell your friends in the playground or your mates down the bar, or wherever it is, in the gym. You just say, 'Look, I saw this amazing thing today.' That to me, is the sign of a good record," Editor-in-Chief Craig Glenday said.