Denmark's largest Viking Age silver hoard, consisting of around 700 pieces, discovered in backyard according to Danish cultural organization Nordjyske Museer
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Chinese humanoid robots smash human records in 100m sprint and high jump at Beijing robot games
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Andreas Almgren took down a championship record that had stood since 1978 with a 27:23.44s run over 10,000m at the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham
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Finland's Alisa Vainio and Amanal Petros of Germany set European Athletics Championship records in the women's and men's marathons on Sunday in Birmingham
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Joshua Báez hits three home runs in MLB debut for the St. Louis Cardinals
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Every July, around 60,000 dance enthusiasts gather in Seinäjoki for the Finnish Tango Festival, one of the world's oldest and largest tango events
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Polish ultra swimmer Bartłomiej Kubkowski has become the first person in history to swim across the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Poland, covering a distance of just over 160 kilometres
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The jungle huntsman spider of Queensland, Australia, is officially the world’s fastest spider
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Largest residential fire in modern Norwegian history destroyed more than 100 homes and forced hundreds of people to evacuate
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Soren Wærenskjold launched an ambitious early sprint to deny the race favourites on stage eleven of the 2026 Tour de France, the fastest-ever road stage in the race's history
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Most efficient solar module in the world — new record
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‘Toy Story 5’ scores year’s biggest debut with $160 million, shattering franchise opening weekend record
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Odin Blikra Vea and Askild Bryn played 383 five-minute blitz games over more than sixty-one hours – documentary revisits the highs, hallucinations, and hard-earned lessons
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Iceland is again the world's most expensive country, surpassing Switzerland for the first time in years, calculations by a local trade union showed
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India battles power cuts as heatwave boosts electricity demand to record
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Solar and wind generated more electricity globally than gas power for the first time in April
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Sabastian Sawe breaks the two-hour barrier in the marathon, first to ever do it in an official race
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Sweden's Armand Duplantis broke his own pole vault world record for the fifteenth time on Thursday with a jump of 6.31 metres
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YouTube lays claim to another crown: the world’s largest media company
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Johannes Høsflot Klæbo, Norway's king of cross-country skiing, broke the record for the most gold medals won at a single Winter Olympics with his sixth of the games
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Johannes Høsflot Klæbo led Norway to victory in the men's 4 x 7.5km cross-country relay at the 2026 Winter Olympics, winning a record ninth career gold medal
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Oliver Solberg held his nerve through a treacherous final leg to become the youngest-ever winner of Rallye Monte-Carlo in the FIA World Rally Championship era
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‘Marty Supreme’ becomes A24’s highest-grossing film at domestic box office with $80 million
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Maritime archaeologists from the Viking Ship Museum in Denmark have announced the discovery of what they describe as the world’s largest cog
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Iceland has hottest Christmas Eve ever with temperature of 19.8°C – meteorological office reports high temperatures across country and record measured at Seyðisfjörður in east
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Can a heavily modified Rivian take the electric vehicle Cannonball record? (Part 1)
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Pole vault world record holder Armand Duplantis on his remarkable year, that viral kiss and why he's serious about his music
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Meet the biggest heat pumps in the world
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Paul Lim, 71, becomes the oldest darts player to win a match at the PDC World Championship – beat Jeffrey de Graaf to set up a Luke Humphries rematch
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Money bunny! ‘Zootopia 2’ crossing $1 billion global box office today; fastest Hollywood animation ever to milestone
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How speedrunners aced The Impossible Quiz
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Madison “Peg Leg” Blagden just became the first woman to hike 8,000 miles in a year — and she’s still going
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Scav: The world's largest scavenger hunt
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Enthusiasts bond twelve 56K modems together to set dial-up broadband records
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Shouting at stars: A history of interstellar messages
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Printable aluminum alloy sets strength records, may enable lighter aircraft parts
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‘World’s largest’ industrial heat battery is online and solar-powered
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Atlanta United fires head coach Ronny Deila – high expectations coming into the year after spending more money than any team in Major League Soccer history over the last two transfer windows
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The history of Cuphead world records
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Just three days after a phenomenal display against Olympiacos FC in the Champions League, things are not looking so positive once again for Martin Ødegaard
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China opens world's highest bridge, breaking its own record
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Mjällby AIF, a football team from a remote Swedish fishing village of 800 people, are on the brink of a fairytale league title in Allsvenskan
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Erling Haaland has scored fifty goals in just forty-nine UEFA Champions League appearances, rewriting the record books in the process
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History-maker Armand Duplantis soared to his fourteenth world record with his final pole vault attempt at the 2025 World Athletics Championships
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The making of Mondo – how Armand Duplantis is reaching new heights in pole vault
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British endurance swimmer Ross Edgley has become the first person to swim around Iceland, after spending nearly four months circumnavigating 1,000 miles of coastline
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Liverpool have agreed a British transfer record fee of £125m to sign striker Alexander Isak from Newcastle United
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Three brothers from Edinburgh have claimed a new record for the fastest full, unassisted, non-stop row accross the Pacific, 9000 miles from Peru to Australia, after almost 140 days at sea
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Quebecer breaks Guinness world record, planting more than 23K trees in 24 hours
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Climate change made a two-week-long heatwave in Norway, Sweden and Finland around 2°C hotter and at least ten times more likely, study says
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