It’s official: Tennessee may have an average number of bars but the Volunteer State has the biggest bar in the world, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. It’s located in the Humble Baron whiskey distillery in Shelbyville, TN. The circular bar measures a whopping 518 feet and can accommodate more than 15,000 tipplers in a town with not quite 24,000 residents. But it’s about an hour’s drive from Nashville with its population of nearly 700,000. The folks at Guinness tell us that “in the center of the bar is an indoor stage where there are 17 stations featuring on tap, crafted cocktails made from Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey.

Lots of men prefer short, little goatee facial hair. Yet there are those who let their whiskers grow to more substantial lengths. Take Mr. Sarwan Singh who resides in Surrey, British Columbia. He’s been found by the Guinness World Record checkers to have grown the longest beard on the planet. It measures an amazing 8 feet and 3 inches long and it breaks the record that Mr. Singh has held when was only measured 7 feet and 8 inches long back in 2008. As he put it, “I’m blessed that I was chosen to be the person with the longest beard.”