Guinness World Records Day：November 9
Thursday 12 November 2009
15.58 GMT
More than 200,000 people came together to break weird and
wacky records today on the fifth annual Guinness World Records Day.
Results from the record-breaking attempts across the globe
include...
Datca, Turkey: Ali Bahcepete broke the world record for most
concrete blocks smashed in a minute, with a total of 1,077
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London, England: Manjit Singh, 59, pulled a double decker bus
21.2 metres using ropes attached to his hair, a new world
record
Carl De Souza/AFP/Getty Images
Tirana, Albania: A mosaic made of paintbrushes standing on end
depicts the king of pop Michael Jackson. Albanian artist Saimir
Strati took 28 days to finish the 10m by 2.6m mosaic, the largest
ever, using 233,000 paintbrushes
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Helsinki, Finland: The record for the fastest 40m human
wheelbarrow race is 17 seconds, achieved by Adrian Rodrigues
Buenrostro (Mexico) and Sergiy Vetrogonov (Ukraine)
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Auckland, New Zealand: The furthest distance to blow a
malteser with a straw was set at 11.29m Alistair Galpin
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Helsinki , Finland: A new record for the most people in a
sauna was set. It was 57, it is now 76, thanks to multinational
students and staff at Haaga Helia university in Helsinki
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London, England: Early morning commuters at St Pancras station
take a minute to stop and embrace en route to work. The number of
people hugging for one minute was 112 - a new Guinness World
Record
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Milan, Italy: The longest platform-to-platform bicycle jump
was 4.02m by Italian Vittorio Brumotti in Fiera Milano, smashing
the past record of 2.95m
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Denmark: The fastest time to peel and eat 3 lemons was 28.5
seconds now belongs to Jim Lyngvild
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Memphis, Tennessee: The Universal Cheerleaders Association set
the largest cheerleading dance record, with 297 participants,
smashing the previous record of 225 for the UCLA Intramural Field,
Los Angeles
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Fort Worth, Texas: The record for the most people lassoing
simultaneously is 23, courtesy of the Stockyards Championship
Rodeo
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Beirut, Lebanon: The tallest matchstick model record was set
Toufic Daher at the City mall in Beirut. The model measured 6m 53cm
and used approximately 6m matches (150 boxes, each with 40,000
matches)
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Milan, Italy: Italian Ernesto Cesario set the record for the
fastest time to eat a bowl of pasta, gorging it down in 1min 30sec
at the Restorante Sant'Eustorgio
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Sydney, Australia: 235 people in their swimwear, including 144
men wearing "budgies", descended on the Opera House in Sydney.
Sadly this wasn't a record. The record for the largest swimwear
parade remains at 281
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