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Visitors cheer as cars perform a simultaneous burnout during the Summernats festival in Canberra, Australia, on Friday, Jan. 4, 2013. Sixty-nine cars performed a simultaneous burnout setting up a new Guinness World Record.
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Visitors are covered in smoke from cars performing a simultaneous burnout during the the Summernats festival on Friday.
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Sydneysiders take part in the 'AIME Strut the Streets' in an attempt to break the Guinness record for the world's largest swimwear parade in Sydney, Australia, Dec. 7, 2012. The event was organized to raise funds and awareness for the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience.
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From left, 1770 Kummel Liqueur, circa 1900 Angostura Bitters, circa 1860 Dubb Orange Curacao and 1778 Clos de Griffier Vieux Cognac.
Bar owner Salvatore Calabrese pours out the mixed ingredients into a glass as he attempts to create the world's most expensive cocktail at his bar in London on Oct. 11. Calabrese blended 1770 Kummel Liqueur, circa 1860 Dubb Orange Curacao, 1778 Clos de Griffier Vieux Cognac and circa 1900 Angostura Bitters to create "Salvatore's Legacy," at a cost of $8,800 a glass. The event was attended by officials from the Guiness Book of World Records and was an attempt to break the previous record set by "The Skyview Bar" in Dubai whose cocktail cost around $6,000 a glass.
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Visitors to the Shocktober Fest dressed as zombies pose at Tulleys Farm on Oct. 6, in Turners Hill, England. People dressed as zombies from around the United Kingdom have converged on Tulleys Farm in an attempt to set a new Guinness World Record for the most zombies together in one place.
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A fake hand sits on a picnic table as visitors to the Shocktober Fest enjoy a meal at Tulleys Farm on Oct. 6, in Turners Hill, England.
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Visitors to the Shocktober Fest dressed as zombies enjoy the occasion at Tulleys Farm on Oct. 6, in Turners Hill, England.
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Visitors to the Shocktober Fest dressed as zombies pose at Tulleys Farm on Oct. 6, in Turners Hill, England.
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Visitors to the Shocktober Fest dressed as zombies raise their hands in unison at Tulleys Farm on Oct. 6, in Turners Hill, England.
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Masseuses take part in a mass massage event at a sports arena on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand on August 30, 2012.
Thailand has long been known as the massage capital of the world. Now it has a Guinness World Record to prove it after some 641 massage therapists mass-massaged 641 people simultaneously for 12 minutes to win the honor Thursday at an indoor arena in Bangkok. The event was organized by the Health Ministry to promote the Southeast Asian nation's massage and spa industry.
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An apprentice uses burning incense to drive bees away from She Ping's face during a world record attempt in Chongqing Municipality, China, on April 18, 2012.
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A Chinese beekeeper covered his body with 73 pounds (33.1 kg) of bees — that's an estimated 331,000 of the creatures — during a world record attempt on Wednesday, Reuters reports.
Local media reported that She Ping, 32, had broken the previous world record of 59 pounds (26.8 kg) of bees which had been set by another Chinese beekeeper, Ruan Liangming, in 2008.
However, the Guinness World Records website does not mention either man, instead awarding its "Heaviest mantle of bees" honor to Vipin Seth, an Indian whose burden is said to have weighed 136 lb 4 oz (61.4 kg). Could She Ping's brave attempt have been in vain?
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Local media reported that She had set a new world record.
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Look through images of the biggest, fastest, longest, weirdest and wackiest record breakers from the 2012 edition of Guinness World Records.
How do you get rid of 25,000 bees that have decided to hang out on your car? A Tennessee man had to find out the hard way. WMC's Jerica Phillips reports.
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Chandra Bahadur Dangi near his home in Reemkholi village, Dang district, Nepal, on Feb. 9, 2012.
Agence France Presse reports: Pilloried by neighbours, laughed at in freakshows and spurned by the women he admired from afar, Chandra Bahadur Dangi has always seen his tiny stature as a curse.
But the 72-year-old Nepali, who claims to stand at just 56 centimetres (22 inches), is on the brink of a life change as significant as a lottery win as experts prepare to test his claim to be the shortest man in history. Read the full story.
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Laksana Tiranara, left, takes an energy drink while kissing her husband Akechai Tiranarat during the World's Longest Continuous Kiss Competition in Pattaya, southeastern Thailand, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012.
Lips locked at all times — including for bathroom breaks and meals — is the less than romantic challenge facing Thai couples trying for the kiss to blow away all kisses at a Valentine's Day marathon.
Seven couples have brought their lips together in the Thai beach resort of Pattaya, some 62 miles southeast of Bangkok, hoping to break the world record for longest continuous kiss, which currently stands at nearly two days. The marathon kicked off on Sunday and will go through Valentine's Day, with prizes and glory for the pair that manages to hold out longer than 46 hours, 24 minutes and nine seconds.
Couples in Thailand have squared off in a contest to break the world record for the longest kiss. TODAY.com's Richard Lui reports.
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Four-thousand, nine-hundred, eighty-three students, faculty and staff try for the Guinness World Record for the largest dodgeball game at the University of Alberta on Edmonton, Alberta on Friday, Feb. 3, 2012.
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Four-thousand, nine-hundred, eighty-three students, faculty and staff participated game of dodge ball attempting to break the Guinness World Record.
From University of Alberta -- The University of Alberta’s ownership of the Guinness dodgeball record has been much like a yoyo game—now you have it, now you don’t. And so on Feb. 3, U of A students, staff and faculty were back at it for a third attempt to reclaim the Guinness World Record for the largest number of players in a game.
After more than an hour-long of pushing, running and throwing by players, the Guinness World Record adjudicator, Philip Robertson, who flew in from New York for the game, took to the stage.
“What can I say,” he says. “I’ve never seen so many people throw dodge balls against each other before. It was tremendous to watch, really good fun. The guidelines were all followed. And with that, I’m happy to announce that University of Alberta, Canada, has a new Guinness World Record.”
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The Baluarte bridge, built between Durango and Sinaloa states in Mexico, on Jan. 5, 2012.
The world's highest cable-stayed bridge has been constructed in Mexico. The Baluarte Bridge is 1,124 meters (3,687 feet) long and hangs at over 400 meters (1,312 feet) high, according to Reuters.
The BBC reports that the Eiffel Tower would easily fit under its central span, and that the engineering feat has been recognised by officials from the Guinness World of Records.
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People cycle their bicycles at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei Dec. 31, 2011.
From Reuters:
Hundreds of thousands people participated in a bike ride around Taiwan on New Year's Eve as part of an attempt to achieve a Guinness World Record of the largest bicycle parade in the world. Various groups began from 1000 starting points around the island and cycled clock-wise towards the next starting point within one hour.
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Etibar Elchiyev poses with 50 metal spoons stuck to his body in Tbilisi, on Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011.
The Telegraph reports:
Abandoning a bid to set Guinness world record for balancing spoons on his face, a 39-year-old Georgian sports coach instead balances 50 on his body in an apparent feat of 'magnetic' attraction.
Etibar Elchyev, a 39-year-old kick-boxing trainer, discovered his talent of attracting metal to his body less than a year ago but has quickly taken to the world of magnetism.
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