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Agoura Hills, California, United States--Stretching across 10 lanes of the freeway in Agoura Hills, California, the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing, will be 64 meters (210 feet) long and 52 meters (170 feet) wide, setting the world record for being the World’s Largest Wildlife Crossing, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Santa Monica, California, United States--After eight hours and 25,629 of their iconic pancakes served to 8,543 guests during a free event at the Santa Monica Pier called “20K For Pancake Day,” the restaurant chain IHOP set the new world record for the Most Pancakes Served in Eight Hours, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Fontana, California, United States--Pizzaovens.com, with the help of 55 top pizzaiolos from across the U.S. and 150 pizza loving volunteers, created a record-breaking mozzarella mammoth measuring 6,330.30 feet and stretching about 1.3 miles, setting the world record for the World's Longest Pizza, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Los Gatos, California, United States--Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service; with 282.7 million paid memberships in more than 190 countries as of 2024, it sets the world record for being the World's Largest Video Streaming Service, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Mountain View, California, United States--Google LLC (NASDAQ: GOOGL, GOOG) is an American-based multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial intelligence (AI); capturing nearly 92 percent of the search market, it sets the world record for being the World's Largest Search Engine, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Menlo Park, California, United States--Facebook, (Nasdaq: META), a social media and social networking service owned by American technology conglomerate Meta, was created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with four other Harvard College students and roommates (Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes); Facebook championed over three billion monthly active users (MAU) as of January 2024, thus setting the world record for being the World's Largest Social Media Platform, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Cupertino, California, United States--Apple Inc., an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered and incorporated in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley, was founded in 1976 as Apple Computer Company by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne; with US$383.29 billion revenues in 2023, Apple sets the world record for being the World's Largest Technology Company by Revenue, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Los Angeles, California, United States--Independence Day (also promoted as ID4), a 1996 American science fiction action film directed by Roland Emmerich, written by Emmerich and the film's producer Dean Devlin, stars an ensemble cast of Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch, Margaret Colin, Randy Quaid, Robert Loggia, and Vivica A. Fox; it emerged as a major commercial success at the box-office, grossing over $817.4 million worldwide on a production budget of $75 million and became the highest-grossing film of the year and the second-highest-grossing film ever at the time, setting the world record for the Highest grossing alien-invasion movie, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Carlsbad, California, United States--LEGOLAND® California Resort made history by breaking the record for the largest dinosaur costume party in the world; the monumental event, attended by 1,273 people dressed in head-to-toe dinosaur costumes, sets the new world record for the World's Largest Dinosaur Costume Party (Largest gathering of people dressed as dinosaurs), according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Los Angeles, California,United States--Herbalife, a premier health and wellness company community and platform, united more than 4,900 Herbalife independent distributors and fitness enthusiasts in a shared mission to celebrate the power of community, health, and wellness; the global workout attracted more than 11,000 participants and set the new world record for the Largest high-intensity interval training class (multiple venues), according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Los Angeles, California, United States--Kanya Sesser, 31, a former Paralympic track athlete and lifelong skateboarder, broke a Guinness World Record by skateboarding in the handstand position for 19.65 seconds, which is the new world record for the Longest handstand on a skateboard (female), according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Half Moon Bay, California, United States--Travis Gienger, a teacher at Anoka Technical College in Anoka, Minnesota, teaches agriculture and growing methods and has been producing pumpkins for nearly 30 years; at the 50th annual World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-off in Half Moon Bay, California, his pumpkin weighing in at 2,749 pounds, setting the new world record for the World's Heaviest Pumpkin, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Los Angeles, California, United States--Paramount Pictures, Best Friends Animal Society and Street Food Cinema, invited families with dogs to come see "PAW patrol: The Mighty Movie;" 219 dogs, with their owners, came to see the animated canines in Los Angeles' Griffith Park, setting the world record for the Most Dogs Attending a Film Screening, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Los Angeles, California, United States--Airrack, a popular content creator and YouTube star, and Pizza Hut teamed up to set the a world record which featured a Big New Yorker pizza recipe and had a surface area of nearly 13,990 square feet, setting the new world record for the World's Largest Pizza, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

HOUSTON, Texas, United States--Fervo Energy has signed a 15-year agreement with Southern California Edison to provide 320 MW of power to the utility, which will power about 350,000 homes; the contract sets the world record for being the World's largest geothermal power purchase agreement, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Los Angeles, California, United States--In a groundbreaking effort to combat food injustice and celebrate Juneteenth, Chef Supreme Divine and The Harvest Academy, along with key sponsors Beyond Meat, Gen V, and Vegans of LA, served a remarkable 1,008 meals in just 37 minutes at Estrada Courts, setting the world record for the Most community vegan meals served in an hour, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

PASO ROBLES, Calif., USA -- Evan Graham celebrated his 16th birthday by soloing five different aircrafts: a vintage WWII L-4 Piper Cub taildrager, a R-22 Robinson helicopter, a Cessna 150 Aerobat, a Robinson 44 Raven II and a 1965 Cessna 150-150 , setting the world record for the Youngest solo pilot to fly five different aircrafts.

Hayward, California, United States---Outside the Shasta Beverages Plant is a giant, spinning, Shasta Lemon Lime Twist soda can; the second giant Shasta soda can is currently grapefruit flavored and is located outside Shasta's building on 14405 Artesia Boulevard; the cans set the world record for being the World's Largest Shasta Soda Can Sculptures, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY: https://bit.ly/3CwCnJp