LONDON (UPI) -- Guinness World Records, the world's foremost authority on record-breaking accomplishments, is celebrating the 60th anniversary of its founding Thursday. To celebrate six decades of the weird and wonderful, UPI is looking back at 10 of our favorite Guinness-worthy records of the past year.

1. Hey, McFly!

Canadian inventor Catalin Alexandru Duru took his homemade hoverboard, which uses a drone-like series of propellers to hover 16.4 feet in the air, for a ride covering 904 feet and 2 inches over Quebec's Lake Ouarea to initiate a Guinness World Record category for farthest journey by hoverboard.

Duru's board, which more closely resembles the Green Goblin's glider from Spider-Man than Marty McFly's famous hoverboard from Back to the Future Part II, only had to travel a distance of 164 feet to be eligible for the Guinness record.

Duru said his journey was restricted only by the charge on his battery.

"I wanted to showcase that a stable flight can be achieved on a hoverboard and a human could stand and control with their feet," he said after the attempt.

The achievement was hailed by a Guinness representative.

"This is a truly mesmerizing and incredible feat in the world of engineering and transportation," the representative said. It's always pleasing to see individuals such as Catalin Alexandru Duru achieve a Guinness World Records title such as this in which personal endeavor continues to amaze us all.

2. Victory is delicious

The Girl Scouts of America's Arizona Cactus-Pine Council was given a goal of selling $75,000 worth of Girl Scout cookies in a 24-hour period to qualify for a Guinness World Record, and 600 troops banded together during the Super Bowl to sell a total $355,000 worth of cookies.

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