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Biggest, Smallest and Weirdest Guinness Records


Gardener Peter Glazebrook cradles his world record breaking onion as he poses for photographers at The Harrogate Flower Show on September 16, 2011 in Harrogate, England. Peter Glazebrook from Newark, Nottinghamshire claimed a Guinness World Record with his giant onion weighing 8.150kg. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)



CHICAGO, IL - SEPTEMBER 13: Workers at the World’s Finest Chocolate company look at a 12,290 pound chocolate bar they created to set a new Guinness World Record September 13, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois. The bar, which stands nearly 3 feet high and measures 21 feet long, beat the previous record chocolate bar by more than a ton. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)



British inventor Edd China rides the worlds fastest toilet with a top speed of 68km/h during a race at the annual Guinness World Records Day in London on November 17, 2011. Wacky Guinness world record holders got together to race their unlikely vehicles like the world's fastest toilet and smallest roadworthy car in London the mark the 7th annual Guinness World Records day



British inventor of the world's smallest legally roadworthy car Perry Watkins sits in his vehicle measuring 104.14cm high, 66.04cm wide and 132.08cm long at Guinness World Records Day in London on November 17, 2011. Wacky Guinness world record holders got together to race their unlikely vehicles like the world's fastest toilet and smallest roadworthy car in London the mark the 7th annual Guinness World Records day



Actors pose with gym equipment on what the Guinness World Records bills as the world's largest 3D painting, at Canary Wharf in London November 17, 2011. British artist Joe Hill's creation measures in excess of 1120 square metres (12,000 square feet), breaking records for the longest and largest surface area 3D painting, according to Guinness.



Harbor, an 8 year old coonhound from Bolder Co. displays his winning ears after winning a Guinness World Record titlefor for the Dog With The Longest Ears in Bachelor Gulch, Co. (AP Photo/Ryan Schude/Guinness World Records)



Luigi leads the way as six dogs attempt to break the Guinness World Record for most dogs on a surfboard, during the Surf City Surf Dog event held in Huntington Beach, Calif., Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011. The dogs were not able to stay on for the required ten seconds. (AP Photo/Orange County Register, Cindy Yamanaka)



UC Irvine students play dodgeball in an attempt to set the Guinness world record for the largest dodgeball game in Irvine, Calif., Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)



Participants in their underwear break a world record for the most number of people, 57, to fit into an over-sized pair of underpants measuring 5 meters by 1.5 meters in the Canary Wharf district of London, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011. Thursday marks Guinness World Records Day in which the organization estimates some 20,000 people around the world will attempt to break a wide range of records to showcase their country.



Bikini clad participants parade along Surfers Paradise Beach in Gold Coast City on October 2, 2011 in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the longest bikini parade. 357 bikini clad girls paraded on Surfers Paradise beach to break the record of 331 set in 2010 by the Cayman Island Amateur Swimming Association



Artist Herb Williams, of Nashville, Tenn., poses with his Guinness World Record-breaking mosaic, a portrait of "Mr. Jack" made from over 2000 empty Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey bottles, during an event celebrating the brand's 161st birthday at South Street Seaport, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011 in New York. Jack Daniel's celebrated it's 161st birthday by breaking 6 Guinness World Records during the event. (AP Photo/Jack Daniel's, Jason DeCrow)



German unicycle rider Lutz Eichholz rides over beer bottles as he attempts to break his existing Guinness World record Monday, Sept. 26, 2011 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Eichholz rode his unicycle 8.93 meters over 127 beer bottles on Monday and is waiting for verification on this latest attempt . (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)



Jin Linlin, Guinness World Record holder of simultaneously spinning for 300 hula hoops, performs with 150 hula hoops during a promotional event at a shopping mall in Hong Kong Thursday, July 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)



A crowd of 262 people dressed as Leprechauns gather at the Canal Theatre to break the Guinness World Record in Dublin November 16, 2011. Irish leprechauns, tea-sipping Britons, Australian ABBA impersonators and the oldest yoga teacher on the planet were just some of the people setting world records on Thursday. More than 300,000 people around the world took part in the seventh annual Guinness World Records Day, in which a number of records have already been confirmed.



Belarussian athlete Kirill Shimko pulls a 42-tonne pit-run dump truck with a 55-tonne loading capacity during the celebrations for the Motorist Day in Minsk, October 30, 2011. A 33-year-old Guinness World Record holder broke a new world record after he succeeded to pull a 42-tonne vehicle, according to organizers. REUTERS/Vladimir Nikolsky



Guinness World Record holder for the 'Most Pierced Man', Rolf Bucholz of Germany, poses showing some of his 453 piercings in Dortmund, October 24, 2011



Filipino Muslim widow Bai Ulan Kudanding (C) poses for a photo with her children and some of her 247 grandchildren in General Santos city, in southern Philippines October 17, 2011. Kudanding, still remembers the names of her children and has a total of 247 grandchildren. From Kudanding's 14 children, she has 107 grandchildren, 138 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. One of her daughters, Marawiya, has 19 children. Kudanding wins her townmate, 94-year-old Joacquina Bartiller, who claimed to have 160 grandchildren. Currently, a couple from the United Kingdom holds the Guinness World Records of having 99 grandchildren. (REUTERS/Erik De Castro)



Marie (L) and Gabrielle (R) Vaudremer, a pair of 101-year-old Belgian twins, show pictures of themselves as they celebrate their birthday at the Chateau Sous-Bois retirement home in Spa October 2, 2011. Marie and Gabrielle were born in 1910 and are the world's oldest pair of twin sisters, according to the Guinness World Records. Picture taken October 2, 2011. REUTERS/Thierry Roge



Marie (L) and Gabrielle (R) Vaudremer, a pair of 101-year-old Belgian twins, show a childhood picture of themselves as they celebrate their birthday at the Chateau Sous-Bois retirement home in Spa October 2, 2011. Marie and Gabrielle were born in 1910 and are the world's oldest pair of twin sisters, according to the Guinness World Records. Picture taken October 2, 2011. REUTERS/Thierry Roge



25-year-old German Lutz Eichholz rides his unicycle along upright beer bottles in Tel Aviv on September 26, 2011, during his attempt to break the world record. Eichholz on Monday set a new Guinness world record by riding his unicycle over a 8.93-metre-long row of 127 beer bottles. According to organisers, the previous record was 7.99 metres. REUTERS/Nir Elias)



Bridgette (L) and Brad Jordan are seen in this undated handout image acquired by Reuters on September 20, 2011. Bridgette is a 27-inch college student who was identified by Guinness World Records today as the world's shortest woman. Brad, her younger brother, is 38-inches tall and the pair were designated as the world's shortest living siblings by Guinness. REUTERS/Gary Parker/Handout



Chris "The Duchess" Walton shows off her Guinness world record holding fingernails outside the New York Public Library in New York September 14, 2011. Her nails measure 10 feet 2 inches on her left hand and 9 feet 7 inches on her right hand that she has been growing for 18 years. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton



Participants in their underwear have a group hug after they broke a world record for the most number of individuals, 57, to fit in an over-sized pair of underpants measuring 5 meters by 1.5 meters in the Canary Wharf district of London, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011. Thursday marks Guinness World Records Day in which the organization estimates some 20,000 people around the world will attempt to break a wide range of records to showcase their world

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