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Kiyomura Co's employees push a cart carrying a 222 kg (489 lbs) bluefin tuna outside Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo on Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013. Kiyomura Co's President Kiyoshi Kimura, who runs a chain of sushi restaurants, won the bid for the tuna with a record of 155.4 million yen ($1.76 million) at the fish market's first tuna auction this year.
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A girl looks at a coffee grain-made paint, competing for a Guinness book record, in central Moscow on June 26. One painter and his five assistants made a 30 square meters mural within twelve days.
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An artist assistant sticks coffee beans on a mural while completing the creation after more than ten days of work at the Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure in Moscow, on June 26. According to participants and event organizers, the artwork that occupies an area of about 30 square meters has been considered the biggest picture in history made of coffee beans. Its creators intend to send an application to get the artwork to be registered in the Guinness World Records book.
See more photos of record breakers in our slideshow: Guinness World Records 2012
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Participants of a world record challenge observe a line of toy cars in Pausa, Germany, Sunday, June 10. According to the Trabant Club Pausa, the club managed to create the longest line of toy cars in the world with 3100 miniature vehicles and broke a world record.
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Participants celebrate after creating the world record for the category of "Most Participants in a Multi-legged Race" in a riverside park in Taipei on Tuesday. A group of 450 tourists from Japan's Junior Chamber International and 152 Taiwanese youth jointly created a new world record in a 603-legged race.
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Participants make an attempt to challenge the world record for the category of "Most Participants in a Multi-legged Race" in a riverside park in Taipei.
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A spiral of dominoes is set up on Jan. 6 in Kefenrod, Germany. 15-year-old Patrick Sinner and friends try to break the world record by constructing the longest spiral-shaped wall of dominoes.
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Patrick Sinner sets up dominoes on Jan. 6 in Kefenrod, Germany.
See images of past world record breakers in our slideshow: Guinness World Records 2012
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A boy hugs a tree trunk as he prepares to take part in an attempt to create a Guinness World Record for the most number of people hugging trees for two minutes in Kathmandu, June 5. Eight-hundred seventy-nine people took part in the event, which was held on World Environment Day to spread the message of saving the environment.
Speaking of the environment, it looks like greenhouse gasses are setting record highs according to the AP.
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South Africans Enrico Schoeman and Andre de Kock practice riding their Kawasaki sidecar motorcycle through a short fire tunnel.
The South African attempt on the Guinness Book of World Records distance mark for riding a motorcycle through a tunnel of fire will take place at the Tarlton International Raceway near Krugersdorp on Monday, March 21. See the story here. See more world's records here.
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Khagendra Thapa Magar is weighed in front of a Guinness World Records official (not pictured) at a local hospital in Pokhara, west of Kathmandu, on October 14, 2010. The Nepalese teenager whose tiny stature has made him a celebrity in his homeland entered the record books as the world's shortest man, standing at just 25.8 inches tall, as he celebrated his 18th birthday.
Khagendra Thapa Magar from Nepal was named the world's shortest man today by Guinness World Records. See photos of Khagendra who is just over two feet tall.
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Edward Nino Hernandez, 24, waits outside his home for a ride that will take him to a store where he works as a performer in Bogota, Colombia, Sunday Sept. 5, 2010. Nino, who works part time as a performer at department stores and is currently acting in a film, is recognized as the world's shortest man in the new Guinness World Records 2011.
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Edward Nino Hernandez, left, walks with his eleven-year-old brother outside their home in Bogota September 6, 2010. Edward, 24, is 2 ft 3.46 inches tall,
I'm always concerned that photos of small people tend to exploit them. These two are done with a great deal of sensitivity. Read about Edward Nino Hernandez, the world's shortest man, here.
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