Woman pulling Six Cars with Hair!

Last month, a Chinese woman dragged six cars using only her hair! Can you believe that? Take a look at the pictures. Zhang Tingting, the woman, dragged the cars to a distance of 50 meters in Beijing. We think it is a new record. What you say?

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World's Largest Recycled Artwork

Take a look at the picture. This is a sculpture made of thousands of used aluminum cans collected from around the UK. In fact, it is the world's largest recycled artwork, which was unveiled at Seven Sisters, East Sussex to mark Recycle Week 22-28 June 2009. Recycle Week is a new drive to encourage consumers to recycle their cans and bottles.

The giant sculpture, called Precious Metal, took a team of artists a week to complete and can only be fully viewed from the air. It is inspired by a classic 1949 summer poster from the Coca-Cola, which shows a swimsuit-clad lady relaxing in the sun. The odd sculpture was led by the award-winning Cornish sculptor Robert Bradford.

via: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jun/22/precious-metal-recycle-week

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60 Meter Long Trousers from Mexico!

Residents of Almoloya del Río, a small village located some 30 miles from Mexico City, made a 60 meter-long pair of trousers as they attempted to brake a Guinness record and boost their local economy and textiles industry which have been badly affected by the global recession.

 

In total, 1.8 thousand meters of fabric, and 10 thousand meters of thread were used to make the 60.1 meter long trousers. Village residents financed the tailoring of the long trousers with 44 people taking part in the production process. Almoloya Residents hope that the giant trousers will break a Guinness World Record achieved two weeks ago by a Tunisian designer who made a pair of trousers with a 50 meter length. The trousers now hang in the village square from a large crane.

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Zhao Liang : The 8ft Tall Man

Take a look at tall man in the picture. This is Zhao Liang, a 27-year-old man from Menan province, China. Believe it or not, Zhao is 8.07 ft tall (2.46m) and probably the tallest man in the world. The current world record for tallest man is in the name of Bao Xishun, who is 7.9ft (2.36m) tall.

Mr Zhao had been training as a basketball player when he sustained a foot injury over a decade ago. He was unemployed until 2006, when an art troupe in Jilin province enrolled him to perform magic tricks and play the saxophone and flute. To treat his old injury, Zhao recently came to the Tianjin hospital where his height caught attention of the hospital staff. After measuring his height in presence of media, the hospital staff learned that Zhao is 3.9 inches (10cm) taller than current world record holder for world's tallest man.

In order to get into the Guinness World Records, Zhao's height is needed to bve verified independently. We hope that the Guinness judges will do justice with him and give him official recognition as the tallest man in the world.

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Entire Village up for Sale!

Want to buy more than a home? What about a village? Believe it or not, an entire village including 22 cottages, a cricket club, a blacksmiths and a manor house has gone up for sale. The price tag is between £23,000,000 - £25,000,000.

Picturesque Linkenholt, near Andover in Hampshire, is in an area of outstanding beauty and includes 1,500 acres of farmland and 450 acres of woodland. It is located between Newbury and Andover and about 73 miles to Central London.It will be sold by the Herbert and Peter Blagrave Charitable Trust, who owns the estate. The only thing not included with the deal is the 12th century village church, which does not belong to the trust.

Under the terms of the sale, the buyer will land everything including its 22 houses, the village shop and a commercial shoot. Recently, a meeting has been held with the close-knit community of around 40, where it was decided to keep the layout of the village the same.

Estate Agent Tim Sherston, from Jackson-Stops and Staff in Newbury, told Sky News: "There has been an unusual amount of interest in the village, so we do expect it to sell."

More information about the offer: http://www.jackson-stops.co.uk/cgi-bin/properties/summary_details.pl?propID=34075

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Man kills 39,650 rats to win a contest!

Many parts of the Bangladeshi has been hit by rat attacks! The rat population soared because the rodents were feeding off the region's bamboo forests, which were blossoming for the first time in decades. Last year a plague of rats destroyed the crops of tens of thousands of people living in the remote south-eastern Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh.

So, to minimize the damages caused by rats, the Bangladeshi government started an unique contest. It was nothing but a competition of killing rats. Now, the winner of that rat killing contest has been announced. Binoy Kumar Karmakar, 40, a farmer from north Bangladesh won the contest by killing a total of 39,650 rats within a year.

Can you believe this? That man killed 39,650 rats within a year, which is equivalent to one every 13 minutes! The winning rat killer used traps, poison and flooding to kill the rodents. And as a reward, he got a 14in (36cm) color television from the government.

via: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7874517.stm

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Two kids with a collection of 7,500 Conkers

Two brothers in Basingstoke, Hampshire, are busy in collecting lots and lots of conkers, in a hope to get a place in the Guiness Book of World Records. Mason and Jordan Latter, aged 10 and nine, have already collected 7,500 conkers and it took them only about two weeks. Take a look at the picture above.

According to Telegraph, the conkers were originally kept in bags of 500 inside the family home. But, as the numbers grew, the odd collection had to be moved into the garden. Some of their friends also helped the boys in collecting the conkers.

Matt, 39, the father of the boys said: "Every year the boys try and collect as many as they can but this year they decided to try and collect 1,000. Then when they had 1,000 they wanted 2,000 and it just went on like that. As the collection grew they looked at the Guiness World Records and saw that there was no record for the largest conker collection. That gave them the impetus to get more and more."

Well, according to Damian Field, a spokesman of Guiness World Records, currently there is no category for 'largest conker collection.' But, he encouraged the boys to apply through the website of Guiness World Records, so that the record management team can make a decision. We hope that the boys will get a name in the record book, for their hard work! What you think?

Via:Telegraph

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World's Largest Tow Truck Parade

In a bid to create a New World Record for 'Largest Tow Truck Parade'. 292 tow trucks rumbled through New York City on Saturday, September 20, 2008. The previous world record was set in Wenatchee, Wash., in 2004, with a total of 83 trucks.

The parade, that was organized by the Metropolitan New York Towing Association, included flatbeds, wreckers and 50-ton rotators. The tow trucks started from the Shea Stadium in Queens and cruised down a couple of highways before finishing at the small historic airport in Gateway National Park in Brooklyn.

The above picture provided by the Metropolitan New York Towing Association, shows the tow trucks forming "New York" in the abandoned airport tarmac.

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Most Expensive Mobile Phone Number

How much you will pay for a phone number? The phone number 666-6666 of Qtel is the World's Most Expensive Mobile Phone Number. Why? Because it was sold for $ 2.75 million! This is just unbelievable, but true. Now, it is official and listed in the 2009 edition of Guinness Book of World Records.

Last year, the phone number 666-6666 was sold for $ 2.75 million (Qatar Riyal 10 million) to an anonymous buyer during a charity auction hosted by Qatar Telecom in Doha, Qatar on 23 May 2006. The previous record price for a phone number was made in China where the number 8888-8888 was sold for $ 480,000. Link

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World's Longest Legs and World's Smallest Man

Take a look at the photograph above. Found anything odd? Yes, on this photograph, the World's Smallest Man meets the Woman with World's Longest Legs!

With a height of 74.61 cm (2ft 5.37 in), He Pingping from Mongolia is the World's Smallest Man. On Tuesday, he met 1m 96cm (6ft 4in) tall Svetlana Pankratova, from Russia, in Trafalgar Square, London, to launch the 2009 edition of the Guinness World Records book. With 132 cm (4 ft 3.9 in) long legs, Svetlana Pankratova has her name in the record book for the Woman with the Longest Legs in the World.

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World's Largest Marrow that weighs 65kg

Take a look at the picture above. Can you recognize the object that the girl on the picture is holding? This is the World's Largest Marrow. This giant marrow was grown by Ken Dade in Norfolk and it weighs 65kg (113lbs). It has entered the Guinness Book of World Records by beating the previous title holder by 3kg.

What caused this marrow to grow like a monster? Well, there is no exact reason, but experts thinks that this year's weather was preety good and helped in growth of this giant marrow.

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Record by Australian Stiletto Runners

On Tuesday, hundreds of glamorous women broke a World Record in Sydney, Australia. The record was for the maximum number of women running a race while wearing stilettos (at least 3 inches high heels). A total of 265 competitors, including a few men, participated in the annual stiletto race of Sydney. The previous record of 150 which was made in Holland.

Former Australian sprinter Melinda Gainsford-Taylor inspected the athletes and ensured they were wearing the mandatory three-inch heels. The participants ran around the 80m track at Sydney's Circular Quay to win a pair of gold stilettos.


Professional hurdler Brittney McGlone won the race and took home the designer gold sandals and £2,500. On the other hand, many of the competitors suffered scratches and scrapes to knees and hands as stopped in the end point.

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16-year-old Girl Drags 5 Vans with Teeth!

A 16-year-old school girl in Chennai, India, attempted to get her name registered in Guinness book of world records by pulling five vans with her strong teeth! What an weird attempt? I am sure that you are thinking that it is not possible! Actually the girl did it and pulled the vans to 10 meters. Watch the video.

Apsara, the girl, is a student of Vellamal School, participated in the event called '99999 lights out' jointly organised by her school and Exnora international, a non profit organisation working on global warming related issues in her locality. The campaign aims to persuade the masses to turn off the lights for 9 minutes at 9 p.m. on the 9th day of the 9th month (September) of the 9th year (2009) of this millennium on their own accord.

The teenage girl dared to drag five vans with her teeth covering a distance of almost ten meters. Apsara, who is very concerned about the global warming, was happy about her performance.

"I attempted this record to launch 99999, which is to spread awareness about global warming. Global warming is a very serious threat to our world. I made this record mainly to enter the Guinness book of world records," she said.

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Big Catfish caught on Toy fishing rod

Can you catch a real and big fish with a toy fishing rod? Surely chances are very less. Well, it is not impossible also! A man in US has actually caught a record-breaking catfish with the help of a Barbie fishing rod.

How it happened? David Hayes and his 3-year-old granddaughter Alyssa were angling in the pond behind his Wilkes County home. Alyssa asked him to hold her 2-and-a-half feet long rod while she nipped to the loo and then the catfish hit the cricket. Hayes struggled for 25 minutes with the pink plastic toy and ultimately caught the 21 lbs, 1oz catfish.

Can you imagine this? A 32 inches long catfish caught with the help of a 30 inch long toy fishing rod! Later, a state fisheries biologist from North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission has certified the big catch as a record. via Ananova

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Highest air ever attained on Motorcycle Record

Love motor sports? I will love this news! Last Friday, freestyle motocross star Ronnie Renner established a Guinness World Record for highest air ever attained on a motorcycle at the pier in Santa Monica, USA. Renner set the record by jumping 59 feet, 2 inches on a quarterpipe, in front of an estimated 20,000 people. Take a look at the picture. Want to try it?

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World's Tallest Roller Coaster Model

This is Branden Moyer, a 18-year-old boy from USA, who have just set a new world record for building the Tallest Roller Coaster Model. Moyer achieved this feat by building a 36 feet tall, 50 feet long free-standing roller coaster out of thousands of K'NEX toy pieces. His coaster is a 1/10th-scale replica of Kingda Ka, a 456-foot high steel roller coaster situated at Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey.

The track of Moyer's roller coaster is about 400 feet long and the roller coaster car will travel up to 70 mph, after being sling shotted to the top of the first hill by 25 rubber bands. Moyer, who has an obsession for roller coasters, used about 35,000 to 40,000 K'NEX pieces and spent $6,000 in building his model. Most of the money came from 30 local businesses that have sponsored his project. What's next? Moyers now wants to make a living by designing amazing roller coasters for theme parks. via World Records Academy

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Longest Karaoke Session World Record

On Friday, Kouvola Karaoke Club of Finland set the new world record for the longest karaoke session of 216 hours. Can you believe this? The official from the Guinness Book of World Records has given approval for the new record. The previous record of 214 hours was held by a club in China. Now, Kouvola's goal is to reach 600 hours of non-stop karaoke, which would be reached on July 27.

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Toaster that pops toast to 8ft

Freddie Yauner, 26, from London, set a World Record by creating a toaster that pops toast 8ft 6ins high into the air. Can you believe this? This record was first of it's kind in the record books and an adjudicator who was present to witness the attempt confirmed it as an World record. Freddie Yauner is an art student and he used a high-pressure CO2 gas system and mechanical ram to create the toaster. He demonstrated his creation during the graduate show in the Royal College of Art. Link

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Seagaia Ocean Dome

This is Seagaia Ocean Dome, the World's largest Indoor Waterpark. It is located in Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan. The Ocean Dome, which is a part of the Sheraton Seagaia Resort, measures 300 metres in length and 100 metres in width, and is listed on the Guinness World Records as the 'World's Largest Indoor Waterpark". It was opened in 1993, and visitor numbers peaked in 1995 at 1.25 million a year.


The Ocean Dome sported a fake flame-spitting volcano, artificial sand and the world's largest retractable roof, which provided a permanently blue sky even on a rainy day. The air temperature was always held at around 30 degrees Celsius and the water at around 28. The Ocean Dome was officially closed on October 1, 2007.

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World's Largest Swimming Pool

The World's Largest Swimming Pool is situated in the San Alfonso del Mar, Algarrobo, Chile. It is 1,013 m (3,324 ft) long and has an area of 8 ha (19.77 acre). Can you imagine it's size? This swimming pool utilizes a technology developed by the Chilean company Crystal Lagoons, which uses water pumped from the Pacific Ocean, that is then filtered and treated for supply to the pool. Take a look at the pictures of the World's Largest Swimming Pool.

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