- Etibar Elchyev holds the world record for ‘Most spoons balanced on a human body’. He took the title by putting 50 metal spoons on his body.
- Sticking to the skin doesn’t count, in case you were wondering.
- The world’s largest 3D painting is located at the Canary Wharf in London. The entire piece measures in excess of 12,000 square feet.
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- 37-year-old Takashi Kokubu set a new Guinness World Record running a four-legged 100 meter race in Tokyo. Using the ‘
- African Patas monkey’ style, he clocked in at 16.87 seconds successfully setting the record.
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- On August 8, 2010 thrill-seekers gathered to set the record for the most naked riders on a theme park ride. They totaled 102 riders.
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- Septuagenarian Isobel Varley from Spain holds the record for the most senior tattooed woman in the world.
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- The S.E.A Aquarium in Singapore is so massive that it holds two records. It is the world’s largest aquarium and holds 80,000 animals,
- 800 species and 42.9 million liters of water. It also holds the record for having the worlds largest acrylic panel.
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- In June 2010, runners dressed in inflatable Sumo costumes claimed the new world record for a mass Sumo Suit gathering at a run in London.
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- The ‘Takabisha’ roller coaster is registered as the world steepest roller coaster in the Guinness
- World Records and cost about 3,000,000,000 Japanese Yen ($37, 000, 000) to build. It has a free-falling angle of 121 degrees and
- is located at the Fuji-Q Highland amusement park near Tokya.
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- The Frrrozen Haute Chocolate holds the record for the most expensive dessert in the world. It costs around $25,000.
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- Chinese beekeeper She Ping covered his body with 73 pounds of bees to shatter the previous record of 59 pounds.
- It is estimated that there were around 330,000 bees covering him.
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- 52 chefs set the world record for the largest Cantonese fried rice cooked at one time. The record was set in February of 2013,
- serving over 7,000 people and weighing in at 3,000 pounds.
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- On July 28, 2013, 1,213 people broke a Guinness World Record by applying facial masks for 10 minutes at the same time in Taipei.
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- The world’s longest cigar, stretching 268 feet 4 inches (or most of the length of a football field), is seen here in Havana.
- The cigar eclipsed the previous record cigar of 148 feet 9 inches.
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- Guinness World Record holder for the ‘Most Pierced Man’, Rolf Bucholz of Germany, has a total of 453 piercings.
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- Freddy Nock from Switzerland balances on the ropeway of a cable car leading to Germany’s highest mountain, the 9,718 feet
- Zugspitze. Nock balanced on the 3264.4 feet-long rope to break his own world record.
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- Villagers perform the annual “dragon march” to celebrate the Lantern Festival in Gutian township, China, on February 6, 2012.
- The marching dragon, made of paper and bamboo connected by wood planks, set the new Guinness World Record of the longest parade
- float with 2596.8 feet, according to local media.
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- Cyclist Robert Marchand of France is seen here during his attempt to set a world record for cycling non-stop for one hour,
- in the over 100-year-old category, at the Union Cycliste Internationale velodrome in Switzerland, on February 17, 2012. Marchand,
- born November 26, 1911, cycled 15 miles around the 200 meter indoor track to set the record.
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- Jordan Michael Geller poses with his collection of Nike Air Jordan Retro sneakers at the “ShoeZeum” in downtown
- Las Vegas, Nevada. The shrine is dedicated to Nike and includes one of every model of Air Jordans ever made. He owns more than
- 2,500 pairs.
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- Salsa dancer Paddy Jones holds the record for the oldest Salsa Dancer in the world.
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- Jack Tsonis (on the left) and Lindsay Morrison (on the right) attempt to break the world record for the longest handshake in
- Sydney on September 21, 2009. They chose to do this in the name of charity.
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- A man jumps in a swimming pool filled with pink and green plastic balls during a Guinness World Records attempt of the Largest
- Ball Pit at Kerry Hotel in Pudong, Shanghai in 2013. The event, aimed at raising awareness for breast cancer prevention, set the world
- record with one million balls in the 82 by 141 ft. swimming pool.
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- A group of 1,000 customers set a record by simultaneously receiving a facial massage in Jinan, China. The group, which consisted of
- all women, was given a 30 minute facial beauty treatment.
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- AONI, a Hong Kong funded brand, won the Guinness World Record that year for its AONI ultra-thin 001 natural rubber latex condom.
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- A golden retriever, named Charlie, owns the Guinness World Record for the loudest bark. He registers in at 113.1 decibels.
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- Sri Lankan couple Nisansala and Nalin smile during their wedding ceremony as they break the Guinness record for a wedding with the
- most bridesmaids for a bride in Negombo in 2013. With 126 bridesmaids and 25 groomsmen, accompanied by
- 20 page boys and 23 flower girls, the wedding ceremony broke a previous record of having 96 bridesmaids for a bride at a wedding in
- Thailand.
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- Samat Hasan, a 24-year-old stuntman from China, walked on a 2,300 ft rope with a 1.2 inches diameter and set at a 39-degree
- gradient and successfully broke the Guinness World Record for aerial tightrope walking.
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- Romania set the Guinness World Record for world’s biggest national flag in Clinceni in May of this year. The flag measured 1,146
- feet long by 744 feet tall.
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- 1,010 bikini-clad women posed on Australia’s iconic beach Bondi Beach, setting a Guinness world record for the largest swimsuit photo
- shoot.
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- Japanese fashion designer Kazuhiro Watanabe currently holds the Guinness World Record for “tallest mohawk” at 3 feet and 8.6 inches tall.
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- On January 14, 2011, over 30 Ontario wineries poured 27 liters of icewine into a four-foot-tall flute, successfully setting the pouring record.
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- This piece of luggage, which was introduced in China, has been certified as the world’s largest. It stands nearly six feet tall.
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- Milan Roskopf of Slovakia broke his own previous world record in June 2009 by juggling three motor saws 62 successful times in a row.
- His previous record was 35.
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- Pete Glazebrook looks lovingly at his prize-winning onion which weighed a stunning 17 pounds. It’s the Guinness World Record
- holder for heaviest onion and has held the title since September 2011.
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- Franz Paternosta holds up a Christmas tree bauble in the Bavarian glassblowing company Joska on December 17, 2008.
- The company produced the world’s biggest glass Christmas tree decoration with a diameter of 25.6 inches and a weight of 44 pounds.
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- In February 2013, 4,483 people hula-hooped for seven minutes at Thammasat University stadium on the outskirts of Bangkok, setting
- the Guinness World Record for most number of people simultaneously hula-hooping. .
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- China’s Jin Songhao set the Guinness World Record for the longest time spent in direct full body contact with snow in January 2011.
- His time was 46 minutes and seven seconds.
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- The largest jigsaw made of tents was constructed in Qingdao, Shandong province in China. It took around 900 tents to complete and
- is the first record of its kind.
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- Chris ‘The Duchess’ Walton holds the Guinness World Records for the longest fingernails.
- They measure 9 ft. 7 inches on her right hand and 10 ft. 2 inches on her left.
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