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5-year-old Giuliano Stroe may not be old enough to drive himself to the gym, but his insuperable strength has landed himself a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records.5-year-old Giuliano Stroe may not be old enough to drive himself to the gym, but his... more
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By 6:45 Saturday night, I finally had my roar turns down pat. But that air-guitar-tick-tock move was still not quite there. Thankfully, about 300 zombies surrounded me, all quite helpful despite the rotting flesh, oozy wounds and various implements of death – a scalpel here, an ax there – protruding from necks and heads.
Saturday was the culmination of my experience as a "Thriller" dancer with Hangman's House of Horrors in Fort Worth for the worldwide "Thrill the World" event. We tried Saturday to help set a Guinness World Record for simultaneous dancing to a single song, with a projected total of 270,000 dancers from Australia to Pakistan to Venezuela taking part. The Guinness results won't be released for several months.
My zombification began Oct. 17, when I attended a three-hour workshop at Hangman's to learn the steps to Michael Jackson's monster hit. None of the moves is particularly difficult – after a couple of hours, we all felt pretty smug and confident. Then we found out we'd been dancing at half the normal speed. Oops.By 6:45 Saturday night, I finally had my roar turns down pat. But that... more
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There are so many strange world records out there, making it hard to choose from, but check out some of the Strangest world records we found with pictures.There are so many strange world records out there, making it hard to choose from, but... more
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TMANDU, Nepal - Now that he's all grown up, 18-year-old Khagendra Thapa Magar of Nepal wants the world to know just how tiny he is.
Magar, who stands 22 inches tall, has been waiting four years for his chance to take the title of the world's shortest person.
On Thursday, a day after his birthday and becoming an adult, supporters mailed an application package to Guinness World Record in London seeking to stake his place in the record book.
Magar's family initially filed a claim when he was just 14 years old but it was rejected since he was not an adult and there was a chance he might grow, said Min Bahadur Ranamagar of the Khagendra Thapa Magar Foundation.
Ranamagar said it was not clear how long the certification process would take. When Magar applied four years ago, Guinness officials said he would need to be examined by a doctor to confirm he had stopped growing.
The current record is held by 21-year-old He Pingping of China, who is 29 inches tall.TMANDU, Nepal - Now that he's all grown up, 18-year-old Khagendra Thapa Magar of Nepal... more
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Basingstoke man, Dave Holby, is rowing around the world from the comfort of a shopping centre in the north Hampshire town. I say 'comfort' rather lightheartedly as it will take two-and-a-half years of hard slog outside Primark.
Why would anyone subject themselves to that? Charity. In this case, Breakthrough Breast Cancer.
Dave's been rowing for up to eight hours a day, five days a week in his attempt to be the first person to 'virtually' row around the world.
The attempt can be followed on Twitter @worldrecordrow and here: http://blog.worldrecordrow.com/Basingstoke man, Dave Holby, is rowing around the world from the comfort of a shopping... more
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World's tallest man revealed as 8ft 1in Sultan Kosen, The Guinness Book of Records revealed 27-year-old Sultan Kosen as the world's tallest man during the launch of the 2010 edition of the book.World's tallest man revealed as 8ft 1in Sultan Kosen, The Guinness Book of Records... more
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Steve Mallie of Mallie's Sports Grill and Bar in Michigan, USA, has been entered into the Guinness Book of World Records for creating the world's biggest burger.
The 84kg burger sells for $499 (£302) and cooks for 15 hours before being topped with cheese lettuce and tomato. The bun takes 8 hours to bake and it takes a trolley to wheel it into the restaurant, as they haven't got any plates big enough to hold it.
Anyone out there have a mouth big enough to take a bite out of this burger?Steve Mallie of Mallie's Sports Grill and Bar in Michigan, USA, has been entered into... more
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-Mexico produced the largest meatball in the world. 109 pounds.
Also winning:
-Nearly 13,000 people dance to "Thriller"
-Record for the longest catwalk. 4,332 feet and two inches.
- The world’s largest cheese cake, using almost a ton of cream cheese and yogurt, 551 pounds of sugar and 331 pounds of butter. It took 60 hours to create the more than two-ton monstrosity, which was chopped up into 20,000 servings.
-Mexico also set a kissing record this year, as 39,987 people locked lips on Valentine’s Day.-Mexico produced the largest meatball in the world. 109 pounds.
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In total 549 musicians got together to smash the record on Sunday, playing songs for around 10 minutes and closing with favorites 'Cielito Lindo' and (naturally) 'Guadalajara.'
A representative of the Guinness Book of World Records, Stuart Claxton, said that the event - held at the International Mariachi Festival - had officially broken the record.In total 549 musicians got together to smash the record on Sunday, playing songs for... more
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A new world record for the largest custard pie fight has been set in Colchester with 253 people gathering to throw 648 pies - filled with 200 litres of custard - in just a few minutes.
Marco Frigatti, vice president of Record Management at Guinness World Records, said the contest had to be conducted under official rules, including measuring the pies, counting them, and having each person in the fight throw at least twice.
The previous record of 120 people was accomplished in Los Angeles in 2008.A new world record for the largest custard pie fight has been set in Colchester with... more
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Samsam Bubbleman is a self-proclaimed 'Bubbleologist' - How big can you blow-up yours?
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Ashrita Furman, 54, is the world's most prolific Guinness World Record holder. He holds the record for being the world's best at 100 different activities.
He has broken 236 records, but was awarded this title for holding 100 titles simultaneously.
A few of his achievements include:
Doing 27,000 star jumps
Somersaulting over 12 miles and 390 yards
Chopping 27 apples mid air with a samurai sword
Pushing a car 17.06 miles in 24 hours
Walking 80.95 miles with a milk bottle on his head.
339 basketball bounces in one minute
40 M&Ms eaten with chopsticks in one minute
Having a poem translated and recited into 111 different languages
Ashrita has spent the last 30 years being the best and is even training for his next record attempt - running the fastest mile with flippers on his feet.Ashrita Furman, 54, is the world's most prolific Guinness World Record holder. He... more
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The rather creatively named 'bubbleologist' Samsam Bubbleman, 37, thinks he has broken the
Guinness World Record for the biggest 'free-floating bubble' that was set in Minnesota back in 2005.
Samsam, or Sam Heath as he's known to his mother, isn't sure of the exact volume of the balloon pictured above, but it stretched a whopping 20ft by 5ft by 5ft at its largest.
That's some serious bubble action.The rather creatively named 'bubbleologist' Samsam Bubbleman, 37, thinks he has... more
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A 151-pound cupcake in Minneapolis has been certified as the world's largest.
The 1-foot tall, 2-foot wide cupcake on display Saturday at the Minneapolis Mall of America had 15 pounds of fudge filling and 60 pounds of yellow icing.
Guinness World Records adjudicator Danny Girton Jr. called it a "fun and creative achievement."
The cupcake was made by cakes.com, which is run by cake-decoration supplier and marketer DecoPac.Wow Wow Wow!
A 151-pound cupcake in Minneapolis has been certified as the world's... more
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A 42 year-old Russian woman is now listed in the Guinness Book of Records for lifting a 31 pound (14 kg) glass ball with her vagina. Yes, people. Her vadge.
Local media is reporting that the woman has been exercising her vagina for 15 years. The woman says all women should lift weights with their vaginas to improve their sex lives.A 42 year-old Russian woman is now listed in the Guinness Book of Records for lifting... more
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Poor Efel the pet chicken needed a bit of egging on for her latest effort. It took her a week of preparation and half an hour of pushing before she could unleash her creation on the world: an egg three times the size of a regular egg and one of the biggest ever recorded.
Her owner, 11-year-old Gabrielle Needler, from Reigate, Surrey, was shocked when she saw the egg in the coop. She said: 'Efel didn't lay for a week and we wondered why. Then she laid this massive egg so she was obviously saving it all up. It took her half an hour to lay this one - normally it only takes about five minutes.'
The egg weighed in at 194 grammes, or about 7oz. The family have written to Guinness to see if it is a record breaker, but have since learned that the biggest ever recorded was an egg-tastic 340grams, from an English hen in 1896.
Gabrielle's mother, Kim, said: 'I can only imagine it was a giant hen - or the poor girl must have suffered horribly. I reckon ours must at least be the biggest in the country for a century. Gabrielle is so proud she won't let anyone else hold it.'
Gabrielle plans to blow out the yolk for a giant fried egg then decorate the shell.Poor Efel the pet chicken needed a bit of egging on for her latest effort. It took... more
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29 year old melon picker John Allwood has broken a world record by smashing 47 watermelons with his head in one minute.29 year old melon picker John Allwood has broken a world record by smashing 47... more
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It's important to have a goal in life. Indian grocer Radhakant Baijpai certainly has one - to make sure that he has the longest ear hair in the world.
Radhakant was crowned the official Guinness world record holder for the longest ear hair back in 2003, when his aural fronds were an already-impressive 13.2cm long. But that didn't stop him pursuing his goal of ever-longer hair on his ears.
After several more years of carefully cultivating and caring for the ear-hair, Radhakant's tufts now stretch an astonishing 25cm. He is now waiting for Guinness adjudicators to confirm that he has set a new high, hairy bar for his chosen field.Ew!
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Recently, an 11-year-old Mexican "bullfighter," goaded on by parents who make Brooke Shields' mom look overprotective, tried to establish a Guinness world record by killing six bull calves in one day in Merida, Mexico—despite attempts by the courts and animal protection groups to cancel the event.
Bullfighting is always cruel—the bulls are often beaten in the kidneys, have Vaseline smeared into their eyes, and are given laxatives to slow them down before they are released into the ring to be stabbed to death—but this was calf-killing. Like the child "bullfighter," Michelito Lagravere Peniche, these animals were still youngsters, but, unlike him, they didn't choose to be there and they didn't want to hurt anyone. They just wanted to prance and play. To make matters worse, hundreds of other kids were brought by their parents to watch the carnage and be encouraged to emulate the little matador (literally, "murderer").
The good news is that Guinness World Records takes animal abuse seriously and has refused to publish this new "record," saying, "We do not accept records based on the killing or harming of animals." Olé to Guinness!
More info visit: http://www.peta.org/mc/factsheet_display.asp?ID=64Recently, an 11-year-old Mexican "bullfighter," goaded on by parents who make Brooke... more
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The play "Exercises in Style" has enjoyed a run of 40 years with the same cast, long enough to make it into the Guinness Book of Records.The play "Exercises in Style" has enjoyed a run of 40 years with the same cast, long... more
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