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If you can believe it, there is such a thing as an International Cherry Pit-Spitting Championship and for the last 20 years the winner has been a member of either the Krause or Lessard families. But not this year. This year belongs to 46-year-old Ronn Matt of Chicago, who was able to spit a cherry pit 69 feet, making him the new world champ.

Naomi Kutin, a 10-year old from Fairlawn, N.J., recently set a world record in the raw squat at the RAW Unity weightlifting championships in Texas. Big deal, right? How many 10-year old girls even lift weights? Well…

As part of her noble initiative to fight childhood obesity, first lady Michelle Obama gathered 450 kids on the White House’s South Lawn on Tuesday in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the most people doing jumping jacks in a 24-hour period. Yes, there’s a record for that.

On the upcoming National Geographic Channel show "How Hard Can It Be," which will premier this fall, a bunch of crazy dreamers recreate the scene in the animated Disney movie "Up" in which helium-filled party balloons lift a house high in the air. The folks at "Good Morning America" got a sneak peak of how this was done. Read on to check it out.

Seven couples in Thailand have broken the world record for the longest kiss. In a Valentine’s Day promotion, the resort town of Pattaya is currently holding a longest kiss contest, in which couples lips need to remain locked continuously. Seven of the 14 couples entered have now broken the previous world record for a longest kiss, which was 32 hours seven minutes and 14 seconds.