[Fatima99]

Recently Arrived Ukrainians in Minneapolis Head to Mississippi to Help Tornado Victims



The mainstream media is filled with headlines of how the United States is helping Ukraine, but under the radar is how some Ukrainians are actually returning the favor.

Having arrived in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as recently as a few months ago, a group of 7 Ukrainian refugees has signed up for a 2,000-mile road trip to Mississippi to help with tornado relief.

Tornadoes tore a path of destruction across rural Mississippi and Alabama on the night of Friday the 24th. The nonprofit American Service is just one of several aid organizations heading to help the victims.

They quickly organized a team of volunteers and headed down to North Fork, MI, expecting to arrive on Tuesday.

American Service’s Director of Operations, Sofiia Rudenko, is a Ukrainian who has only been in the country since Christmas, but after receiving help settling in from American Service, she quickly dedicated her time to help other new arrivals.

“Here in America a lot of people helped me to establish here and we have this kind of culture that we want not only to take but also to give back and to help the others,” Rudenko told MPR News.

“I found a group of people, Ukrainian, that are not working today and willing to go immediately and now we’re packing and going. It’s so exciting, I hope we can do something great for this world.”

American Service has so far helped 80 Ukrainians like Rudenko find temporary housing, jobs, and a bit of community in Minneapolis.

Their first trip down to Mississippi was going to bring exclusively water, and a second trip will follow based on whatever it was they discovered is in short supply after the first trip.

89-year-old Japanese man named world's oldest surfer



An 89-year-old Japanese surfer who has been practicing his hobby for under a decade was named the world's oldest person to surf by Guinness World Records.

Seiichi Sano, 89, was 88 years and 288 days old when Guinness World Records verified he rode the waves on July 8 of last year, Guinness World Records announced.

Sano said he was inspired to take up surfing shortly after he climbed Mount Fuji at age 80.

"I work with a bank manager who has a really tanned skin. I thought he may be a golfer, but when I asked him, he whispered to me, 'I surf,'" he told GWR.

Sano went surfing for the first time three days later, he said. He was instantly hooked, and now surfs year-round.

"People tell me surfing is dangerous, but I had far more scary moments in a car than on a surfboard," he said.

He said he had a system to make sure learning didn't leave him frustrated.

"You do it for three days, then you take a break, and you do it again for three days, and so on. If you go into new things with a mindset that you don't have to continue trying forever, I think most people actually continue for a very long time," he said.

[PennySerenade]

This Toronto artist is painting and donating 100 Nikes for vulnerable youth.



A Toronto artist is painting and donating 100 pairs of Nike Air Force 1s to show that hope can be laced into a pair of sneakers.

At 15-years-old, Daniel Mazzone, now 42, slept in a park behind the Art Gallery of Ontario, or on a toilet in a mall bathroom with his head folded into his lap. On cold days, he sometimes bought a $2-ticket to a Scarborough theatre, sunk into a seat and closed his eyes.

“I was homeless for five years,” Mazzone told CTV News Toronto. “When I did have a chance to get a pair of shoes, it kind of gave you a little bit of hope … hope that you could move forward.”

“I spent so many years just in survival mode,” he said. “Towards the end, I just thought, you know, this can't be my life story, this can't be it.”

At 20, Mazzone decided to go back and finish high school while taking a job at a high-end restaurant and painting on the side.

With a paintbrush in hand, he thought back to his time living on the street and the judgment he felt as people walked by and looked down at him.



“Wouldn't it be nice if the story of your life was on your skin, like a tattoo? That way when people see you, they wouldn't be so quick to judge, they would understand what you've gone through and really understand who you are,” he said.

For that reason, he crafts labyrinths of intricate designs in the faces of his subjects, which are often blockbuster names like Charlie Chaplin, Audrey Hepburn and Nelson Mandela.



The restaurant owner he was working with when he started painting insisted on hanging one of his pieces in the establishment. Four days later, it sold.

“I quit my job the exact same day they bought it,” Mazzone said. He’s been working as an artist ever since.

“I just really decided that this was something I was going to do and this was something I was meant to do. I never looked back.”

That’s why he decided to spray paint 100 pairs of Nike running shoes. Of the 100 pairs, 90 are being given to youth transitioning out of government care and 10 are being auctioned off until Friday to raise money for the Children's Aid Foundation of Canada.

[goldie0608]

Hero Pilot Guides Novice Aviator in Emergency Landing After He Sees Her Tire Fall Off



A young pilot is thanking her lucky stars there was someone on hand to guide her down into an emergency landing after she lost part of her landing gear during takeoff.

Chris Yates, a veteran pilot at the airport, radioed the control tower to alert them of the potential disaster, but the control tower operators had never seen it happen before and didn’t know what to do.

The tower patched Yates through to the young pilot, whose name was Taylor Hash. Hash was only on her third-ever solo flight, and the anxiety was thick in her voice.

“Taylor this is Chris, my daughter’s name is Taylor and I taught her to fly! We’re gonna be just fine kiddo,” were among the first things he said.

A student pilot, Hash was up in a Diamond Star single-engine aircraft from Oakland County International Airport, Michigan. At the time of the incident, she had 57 total flight hours.

Yates, the former director of aviation at SpaceX, managed to calm Hash down with the comment about his daughter, before beginning to instruct her on how to make an emergency landing.

Hash would have to land without a front tire, so Yates told her to keep circling the field until she felt ready to try and land the plane.

“When you touch down, I just want that stick all the way back. You’re gonna hold that stick back like you don’t want that nose to touch,” he can be heard saying over the recorded radio conversation.

“The nose is gonna come down, you’re okay, you’re okay. Talk to me. Thatta girl, proud of you.”

WXYZ News Detroit shared another video of the landing taken by two onlookers who remarked “beautiful, beautiful,” as she managed to touch down without the nose immediately smashing into the ground.

“I was thinking of my daughter and just how afraid and alone (Hash) probably felt,” Yates told NBC News correspondent Gadi Schwartz.

NBC News TODAY interviewed Hash who told them that “as soon as he said [thatta girl] he goes, ‘I’m proud of you,’ the waterworks came,” Hash said, with Yates revealing he too was crying.

The FAA has stated they are investigating what the cause of the malfunction was, while Hash has said that despite the frightening incident, she has no plans to give up flying.

[Misstee]

4-year-old boy becomes youngest person to publish a book
By Ben Hooper



Saeed Rashed AlMheiri became the youngest person to publish a book at the age of 4 years and 218 days. Photo courtesy of Guinness World Records

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March 31 (UPI) -- A United Arab Emirates boy became the world's youngest person to publish a book at the age of only 4 years and 218 days.

Guinness World Records said Saeed Rashed AlMheiri was 4 years and 218 days old when he published his book, The Elephant Saeed and the Bear.

The record was verified when the book sold 1,000 copies, GWR said.

AlMheiri, whose book is about kindness and friendship, said he was inspired by his sister, AlDhabi, who holds the Guinness World Records title for youngest person to publish a bilingual book (female) and youngest person to publish a bilingual book series (female).

"I love my sister so much and I enjoy playing with her all the time," the younger brother told GWR. "We read, write, draw and do so many activities together. I wrote my book [inspired by her] as I felt that I could have my own book too."

[lush]

Pastor Finally Buried 2 Years After His Death Because Family Awaited His Resurrection
March 31st, 2023*

South African pastor Siva Moodley died in 2021, but his body was only laid to rest this month, after spending almost 600 days at a mortuary, because his family and parishioners were expecting him to come back to life.

Siva Moodley, the founder of The Miracle Centre in Gauteng, north of Johannesburg, died on August 15, 2021, after falling ill. However, instead of making preparations for his funeral, his family simply left his body at a mortuary, awaiting his resurrection. His wife and other members of his family came to the mortuary to pray for his return, but they stopped coming a few months after his death and refused to give their consent for Moodley’s burial or cremation. To make matters worse, they even refused to acknowledge the pastor’s death within the church, conducting services in his place until the day he decided to come back to life.


Photo: Rhodi Lopez/Unsplash

As months passed and Siva Moodley’s body remained in the mortuary, the owners started contacting the family trying to obtain their consent for burial or cremation, stating on numerous occasions that failing to dispose of the body in a timely matter posed serious health and environmental risks. They failed to obtain the Moodleys’ consent, and soon the deceased pastor’s family stopped replying entirely. In the end, the only option available for the mortuary was legal action against the family.

“It is a civil matter. I cannot make the decision to bury or cremate him on my own,” the mortuary owner said. “It has to come from his family but they are not saying anything. He was a well-known man and does not deserve this kind of treatment. I hope the court can provide some relief.”



Court documents showed that Sive Moodley’s widow, Jessie, explained her family’s reluctance to consent to the pastor’s funeral by claiming that she had had a vision of the religious leader coming back to life. However, after seeing evidence that the family had been contacted a total of 28 times about the man’s body, and receiving reports from local authorities about the health hazards posed by the body, the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg authorized a mandatory burial or cremation.

The court’s decision was suspended for a month so that it could be served on Moodley’s immediate family. The funeral home clarified that they did not want to infringe on anyone’s religious freedom, but they also had to abide by health regulations.



On March 16, Siva Moodley’s body was finally laid to rest at Westpark Cemetery in Johannesburg, in the presence of his siblings and extended family. His wife and two children did not attend the ceremony, and South African media report that they continue to lead The Miracle Center in the pastor’s place. There is also no mention of Woodley’s passing on the Christian ministry‘s social media…

[johngriffen]

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But the cheeky boar and its two piglets appear to be too quick for the sunbather, who can't keep up with their speedy little trotters.
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[ozswede]

‘This has never happened’: Something is odd about these Aussie motorway ‘passengers’

You’re cruising down a Victorian motorway. You peer over at the passenger in the car next to you. A pair of cold, dead eyes stare back at you. You’re not going crazy – there’s a perfectly good explanation.

It just so happens a sex doll named Donna has completely sold out in Melbourne for the first time ever, as the city’s commuters come up with a creative solution to their traffic woes.


Eastern Freeway commuters are using lifelike dolls as fake passengers to qualify for the faster transit lane.

According to Adam Lea, marketing manager of Wild Secrets, the adult retailer that stocks the $5,500 doll: “This has never happened in the company’s 30-year history.”

The sudden demand for Donna has been sparked by Eastern Freeway commuters who are using the lifelike doll as a fake passenger to qualify for the faster transit lane.

“The awful traffic on the Eastern has resulted in a coup for us,” Mr Lea told the Herald Sun.

“People are buying dolls so they can use the much faster transit lane.”

Apparently, people were inspired by a promotional image of Donna seated behind the wheel of a car, and one customer even admitted that transit lane travel was the sole reason for his doll purchase.


Donna has sold out in Melbourne amid claims it is being used by commuters to travel in the transit lane.

Until recently, the “niche market” sex dolls sold “pretty infrequently” – some months, only two dolls would sell, Mr Lea said.

However, in the past few months, hourly sales of Donna have taken over, leading to a complete sellout.

While VicRoads strictly prohibits the use of sex dolls in transit lanes, with its website stating that “passengers” must be human, Melbourne commuters seem to have found a way around the system, much to the delight of Donna’s manufacturers.

“Anyone else seeing people travelling in Eastern transit lane with dolls?” one Melbourne driver shared in a viral post on Reddit alongside an image showing a lifelike doll in the passenger seat of a car next to them.

While many praised the driver for finding a way to cheat the system, some suggested he might have been in a relationship with the doll.

“This might sound weird but I’m pretty sure it’s a sex doll, they have a whole forum/community and everything,” wrote one user.

“They treat the dolls like real life people and take them on holiday trips etc. Travel with them in the car and so on.”


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But this isn’t a new method to circumvent the rules. And it isn’t limited to Melbourne.

In 2019 it was reported that drivers in several US states, including New York, California and Florida, were using mannequins, skeletons and blow-up sex dolls to illegally use carpool lanes to beat traffic.


An Arizona driver was pulled over with an inflatable Grinch in the front passenger seat

Police said that the issue had reached alarming proportions and that they were fighting back with tactics such as public shaming on social media and creating dedicated police units to patrol highways.

In 2022, one driver in Arizona was given a traffic citation after being pulled over for driving in a carpool lane with an inflatable Grinch in the front passenger seat.

Protected bird's nest takes over South Carolina parking lot



A utility company in South Carolina found a migratory bird nesting in a parking lot -- and the bird can't be moved due to federal law from 1918.

The Berkeley Electric Cooperative said an employee found a killdeer nest being tended by a mother bird in the company's parking lot, and officials soon found the nest could not be relocated due to the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918.

The act bans U.S. property owners from relocating "protected migratory bird species without prior authorization by the Department of Interior U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service."

The company decided to surround the killdeer nest with traffic cones to protect the mother and her eggs while waiting for the babies to hatch.

"It's just another way we're helping to keep the Lowcountry beautiful," the company said in a Facebook post.

[goldie0608]

'Bubblegum' Pink Diamond Weighing Over 10.5 Carats Expected to Sell for More than $35M at Auction

Sotheby's says the spectacular diamond has the "highest price per carat estimate ever placed on any diamond or gemstone" to come to market



Experts call it "the most vivid pink diamond" ever put for sale — and it's expected to fetch a pretty penny at auction later this year.

The "Eternal Pink" Diamond, a 10.57-carat cushion-cut jewel with an "electric 'bubblegum' color" is scheduled to headline in the Magnificent Jewels Auction at Sotheby's NewYork on June 8, according to the prestigious auction house.

The Internally Flawless Fancy Vivid Purplish Pink Diamond will be priced at $35 million, which Sotheby's says is the "highest price per carat estimate ever placed on any diamond or gemstone" to come to market.

"This color is the most beautiful and concentrated shade of pink in diamonds that I have ever seen," said Quig Bruning, Head of Jewelry, according to Sotheby's Instagram page.

On its website, Sotheby's described the "remarkably brilliant and mesmerizingly vivid" pink diamond as "an astonishing feat of nature," having been "meticulously fashioned" out of a 23.78-carat stone.

It took over six months for a group of "expert artisans" to craft the stunning jewel in a way that maximized the pink in the diamond, Sotheby's says.

The diamond — which Sotheby's says is among "the rarest of the rare" — will be shown internationally before it officially goes up for sale in June.

"Few Fancy Vivid Purplish Pink have been categorized by the [Gemological Institute of America] (GIA) throughout their decades of research on pink diamonds," the auction house wrote on Instagram.

The traveling exhibition will visit Hong Kong, mainland China and Taipei in April, according to Sotheby's website. It will make stops in Singapore, Geneva and Dubai in May, as well.

Several other "dazzling colored diamonds and gemstones" will be available at the June 8 auction, Sotheby's says.

"An impressive selection of vintage jewels" will also be for sale, including items from Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels, according to the auction house's website.

Judge shields Hunter Biden’s finances from public in child-support case



A judge ordered Hunter Biden’s financial records to be shielded from the public in an ongoing paternity case in Arkansas.

Circuit Judge Holly Meyer ruled Monday that all of the information the first son submits to the court related to his request to lower child-support payments, including financial records, will remain under seal.

Only attorneys on the case or expert witnesses retained to testify will be allowed access to the financial records, Meyer ruled.

In her order, Meyer addressed the political interest in Biden’s finances, which could include the names of those who bought his paintings and what they paid for them.

One was priced at nearly a quarter-million dollars at a gallery show late last year.

Both Biden and his Manhattan art dealer, Georges Berges, have refused to provide any information about the buyers.

“There is good cause for the protection of private information of the parties in this cause,” Meyers wrote, adding that “the court has no concern for the political nature or aspects surrounding this case.”

“This is a case about child support and the court has treated and will continue to treat these parties as any other members of this judicial district,” added Meyer, who began her term as a circuit judge in January 2019.

The paternity case was reopened last September after Biden sought to lower his child support payments to Lunden Roberts, the mother of his 4-year-old daughter, Navy Joan Roberts.

Biden’s income has been at the center of the case after he cited a “substantial material change in (his) financial circumstances, including but not limited to his income” as the reason to lower his payments to Roberts.

The amount he had been paying is not included in the filings.

In January, Roberts filed a motion to change her daughter’s last name to Biden, claiming it would improve her daughter’s life because it is “now synonymous with being well educated, successful, financially acute and politically powerful.”

However, Biden — who has been probed for his foreign business deals, battled alcohol and crack cocaine addictions, and was seen in leaked photos waving a gun around in the nude with a prostitute — said it would not be a good time for his daughter to take his presidential surname.

Instead, he argued that his daughter should decide for herself once “the disparagement of the Biden name is not at its height.”

Neither Roberts, her attorney, nor the attorney representing Biden responded to requests for comment.

https://nypost.com/2023/04/01/judge-shi ... port-case/

[PennySerenade]

New Orleans high school students say they’ve found new way to prove Pythagorean theorem



NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) – Two students at a school in New Orleans have presented evidence of a mathematical discovery that scholars have been trying to prove for 2,000 years.

School officials at St. Mary’s Academy say Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson, both 17, attended the American Mathematical Society’s Annual Southeastern Conference where they said they had found a way to prove the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry and without using circular logic.

“In the 2,000 years since trigonometry was discovered it’s always been assumed that any alleged proof of Pythagoras’s Theorem based on trigonometry must be circular,” the teenage authors wrote in the abstract of their presentation a the conference. “In fact, in the book containing the largest known collection of proofs (The Pythagorean Proposition by Elisha Loomis) the author flatly states that ‘There are no trigonometric proofs, because all the fundamental formulae of trigonometry are themselves based upon the truth of the Pythagorean Theorem.'”

“But that isn’t quite true: in our lecture we present a new proof of Pythagoras’s Theorem which is based on a fundamental result in trigonometry — the Law of Sines — and we show that the proof is independent of the Pythagorean trig identity \sin^2x + \cos^2x = 1.”

Used to calculate the side lengths of a right triangle, this type of proof for the Pythagorean theorem was thought to be impossible. The standard Pythagorean theorem is used on an everyday basis in professions like architecture, building construction, navigation, spaceflight, computer sciences, and more.

Johnson and Jackson first became interested in Pythagoras’ theorem when they entered a math contest created to spark students’ further interests in the field, according to St. Mary’s. The study led them to believe the theory’s original proof was inaccurate.


The students made their groundbreaking lecture to mathematical scholars on March 18 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Several alumni from St. Mary’s Academy have since congratulated the girls on their presentation.

“I am in awe of these wonderful young ladies!” wrote one supporter in response to a Facebook post shared by the school.

“Two phenomenal little sisters doing phenomenal work!” another wrote. “Keep soaring Maryites!!!”

What on earth is THAT? Photo of weird creature leaves people wondering if it is a dog, a pig or even the fabled Chupacabra

The illusion has gone viral on Reddit as users were left confused by the animal
It'll have you staring at it for ages as the creature's not what it seems to be at first
READ MORE: Can YOU see the sneaky feline? This is the trickiest 'spot the cat' photo

Twisted folds of flesh and fur, its haunting eye glaring. What on earth is this vision of horror?

It could be a dog, though its goat-like features and snout suggest some cruel experiment could be the parent of this writhing beast.

Some have even likened the animal to the mythical Chupacabra - a vampire-like prowler that devours livestock then drinks its blood.

Keep looking at this optical illusion... what do you think it really is? (Answer below)





The strange optical illusion has gone viral on social media leaving onlookers confused.

It has been doing the rounds on Reddit after a user posted the image with the caption: 'I was checking out this dog, goat, pig, hybrid Chupacabra looking animal thing for way too long before I realised it...'

And people on the site were left as equally confused, with one writing: 'I see a scary pig. I don't like this.'

Another said: 'Weirdness lies in the eye of the beholder.'

While a third put: 'Took me many seconds.'

And a fourth added: 'That's great, thank you. Took a while for me to see it.'

While another posted said: 'I've got it for a second then it disappears again.'

If you've not figured it out, we'll let you in on what it is.

Try turning your phone or your head clockwise. The image should begin to make sense.

Can you see it?

It is no distored beast after all. It is in fact a dog looking upwards, with its ear folded back - making it look somewhat like a snout.

And the thing that looks like the goat's ear, with a black tip, is the dog's nose.

What seems to be a pig's nose with a ring through it is actually the dog's ear.

The pup itself is laying with its head turned to the other side of its body, adding to the illusion.

After having the mind-boggling illusion explained, Reddit users were grateful.


This odd-looking creature, captured in Ukraine in June 2016, was believed by villagers to be the mythical Chupacabra - the vampire-like livestock predator



One person wrote: 'Thankful it wasn't a hybrid.'

And someone else put: 'Thank you, now I don't need eye bleach.'

While another wrote that they cannot get accustomed to seeing the real animal, saying: 'Weirdly, unlike most such things, I still keep flipping back to the initial view even after seeing the real.'

A second person also said: 'The real bonkers part is that even once you see it correctly, it still goes back to a goat pig immediately.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/week ... cabra.html

[Misstee]

Has T. rex lost its bite? Menacing snarl may be wrong


By MADDIE BURAKOFFMarch 30, 2023
FILE - Stan, one of the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex fossil discovered, is on display, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020, at Christie's in New York. The teeth on T. rex and other big theropods were likely covered by scaly lips, concludes a study published Thursday, March 30, 2023, in the journal Science. The dinosaur's teeth didn't stick out when its mouth was closed, and even in a wide open bite, you might just see the tips, the scientists found. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)







FILE - Stan, one of the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex fossil discovered, is on display, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020, at Christie's in New York. The teeth on T. rex and other big theropods were likely covered by scaly lips, concludes a study published Thursday, March 30, 2023, in the journal Science. The dinosaur's teeth didn't stick out when its mouth was closed, and even in a wide open bite, you might just see the tips, the scientists found. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

NEW YORK (AP) — The Tyrannosaurus rex is often shown baring massive, sharp teeth, like the ferocious creature in “Jurassic Park.” But new research suggests that this classic image might be wrong.

The teeth on T. rex and other big theropods were likely covered by scaly lips, concludes a study published Thursday in the journal Science. The dinosaur’s teeth didn’t stick out when its mouth was closed, and even in a wide open bite, you might just see the tips, the scientists found.

The research is the latest in a long back-and-forth over how dinosaur mouths really looked.

Recent depictions show big teeth jutting out of the dinosaurs’ jaws, even when closed. Some thought the predators’ teeth were just too big to fit in their mouths, said study author Thomas Cullen, a paleontologist at Auburn University in Alabama.

When researchers compared skulls from dinosaurs and living reptiles, though, they found this wasn’t the case. Some large monitor lizards actually have bigger teeth than T. rex compared to their skull size, and can still fit them under a set of scaly lips, Cullen said.

The scientists also found clues in the pattern of wear and tear on tooth surfaces.

For a creature like a crocodile, whose teeth stick out of its mouth, the exposed part gets worn down quickly — “like someone’s taken a sander to the side of the tooth,” said another study author Mark Witton, a paleoartist at England’s University of Portsmouth.



But when researchers analyzed a tooth from a Daspletosaurus, a T. rex relative, they found it was in good condition and it didn’t show that uneven damage pattern.

With this evidence and other clues from the dinosaurs’ anatomy, the study makes a good case for lipped tyrannosaurs, said University of Maryland paleontologist Thomas Holtz, who was not involved with the study. Still, “we’re not talking kissy lips,” he pointed out — they’d be thin and scaly like those of the Komodo dragon, a large lizard.

It’s not the first time our depictions of dinosaurs have been called into question: Other research has shown that T. rex was more hunched over than we used to think, and that fierce velociraptors probably sported feathers. Most of what we know about dinosaurs comes from their bones, but it can be harder to get clear answers about soft tissues like skin, which usually aren’t preserved as fossils.

Adding lips may make dinosaurs look a little less ferocious, but it also makes them feel more realistic, Witton said.

“You don’t really see a monster,” he said. “You see an animal.”

[lush]

Australian creates world's widest wig, measuring more than 8 feet across
March 31, 2023 / 2:10 PM*


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March 31 (UPI) -- An Australia resident broke a Guinness World Record when they crafted a wig measuring 8 feet and 6 inches wide.

Guinness World Records announced Dani Reynolds broke the record for the world's widest wig when they created the oversized faux-hairdo.

Reynolds based the color and texture of the wig on their own hair and created a substructure to support the massive mop of fabric.

The support structure was made from a bike helmet, PVC pipe, pool noodles, cable ties and aluminum rods, GWR said.