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Can You Run a Mile in 4:32 While Pushing a Stroller?Can you run a mile in four and a half minutes? For top-end runners in modern times, that’s achievable. What makes Ruben Sança’s dash record-breaking is that he did so while pushing his own son in a stroller.Sança has unofficially clenched a Guinness World Record for pushing a child in a stroller during a mile-long run. Runners’ World reports that he accomplished this feat Newburyport, Massachusetts on August 7, 2022. With a time of 4:32, the pair broke through the previous record of 4:42.Sança ran with a careful stride: he kept his right hand on the stroller, pumped with his left, and stood slightly off center so that his right foot landed between the wheels of the stroller. You can watch a video of his run here.-via Super Punch| Photo: Scott Ripley#GuinnessWorldRecords #Running #Strollers

World's Longest CarIn 1986, this 100 foot long car broke Guinness World Record as the longest car in existence. Following the achievement, The American Dream, as it was called by its original builder Jay Ohrberg, enjoyed years in the spotlight. It made a lot of movie appearances. But as interest in it declined over time, the American Dream fell into disrepair. Many decades later, it ended up practically a junk pile in a New Jersey warehouse.But it was about to see another day in the sun. The car was discovered by auto museum owner Michael Manning, who bought it off of eBay and then restored it to its former glory. Manning overhauled the rusty ride, making it as good as new again. The whole process of making American Dream great again took three years to complete.The car is now on display at Dezerland Park Orlando’s Auto Museum in Orlando, Florida.Image: Guinness World Records#car #GuinnessWorldRecords #JayOhrberg #limo #limousine #worldrecord

World's Whitest Paint May Reduce or Even Eliminate the Need for Air ConditioningFor years, scientists have been looking for ways to slow down climate change. Along the way, these people made intriguing stuff, like this paint developed at Purdue University by mechanical engineering professor Xiulin Ruan and his students. What makes this type of paint intriguing, you ask? The answer is its color and its excellent ability to block out most solar radiation. Currently the whitest paint in the world, it can reflect 98.1% of solar radiation. Typical commercial white paint can only reflect 80-90% of sunlight, and it cannot make surfaces cooler than their surroundings. This new paint formulation, however, can. And, according to Ruan, this paint could rival the cooling power of most air conditioners today.The paint appears in the 2022 edition of Guinness World Records.Check out more details over at Purdue University.(Image Credit: Purdue University photo/John Underwood)#GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #ReflectivePaint #GuinnessWorldRecords #SolarRadiation

100-Year-Old Weight Lifting Grandma from Florida Sets World Record for Oldest Competitive PowerlifterEdith Murway-Traina likes to bench press. Being a hundred years old great, great grandmother, one would think that this is something she’s always done, but that’s not the case. In fact, she never even picked up a barbell until she was 91-years-old.“And here I was lifting weights pretending I was Charles Atlas,” said Edith. “And I thought it’s not so bad, maybe I can do this again another time so I did.”“I like to do things that people think I can’t do,” said Edith, so even when there are times when she doesn’t feel like coming to the gym or feels tired, she perseveres. Currently, she trains three days a week and is a competitive powerlifter. Because of all that she’s been doing, the Guinness World Records recognized her as the world’s oldest competitive powerlifter.#grandmother #powerlifing #GuinnessWorldRecordsImage Credit: Scripps Media, Inc