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  • RENTON, UNITED KINGDOM - APRIL 07: A three-week-old chihuahua puppy named Tom Thumb poses on some fruit on April 7, 2009 in Renton, Scotland. The pup, which measures eight inches long, is thought to be one of the smallest dogs born in the UK and is just two inches short of a world record. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
  • IN FLIGHT - APRIL 07: Hot air balloons which departed from Lydden Hill race circuit near Canterbury take part in a mass crossing of the Channel on April 7, 2011 in flight over the English Channel. 51 balloonists of various nationalities from across Europe took off from Kent making for Calais, France at about 7am. It is the first time a Guinness World Record bid has been made for
  • LONDON - OCTOBER 7: Garry Stretch, who holds the Guinness World Record for having the stretchiest skin performs before he judges the auditions for the Circus of Horrors at Fairfield Halls on October 7, 2005 in London, England. Hundreds of people applied for a job in the circus after advertisments were placed in many of London's job centres. The Circus of Horrors premiers it?s brand new Revamped & Rockin? show at The Fairfield Halls next month. (Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images)
  • SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 02: A general view during the The World?s Biggest Breakfast in Bed Guinness World Record Attempt at Martin Place on March 2, 2012 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Ryan Pierse/Getty Images)
  • Nepalese Thaneswar Guragai, (22), makes an attempt to break a Guinness World Record for keeping a basketball spinning on a toothbrush in Kathmandu on April 19, 2012. Guragi, who already has six records to his name, will send a video of himself spinning the basketball for 22.5 seconds thus adding nine seconds to the old record of 13.5 seconds, to Guinness World Records for confirmation. AFP PHOTO/ Prakash MATHEMA (Photo credit should read PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP/Getty Images)
  • CHONGQING, CHINA - JANUARY 9: (CHINA OUT) Chinese man Wei Shengchu displays acupuncture needles in his forehead during a self-acupuncture performance on January 9, 2007 in Chongqing Municipality, China. Wei inserted 1,200 needles into his head skin during the show. According to local media, the sixty-year-old acupuncturist is a cosmetic doctor from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, who has the Guinness World Record for self-acupuncturing at 1,790 needles in his face. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)
  • Linlin Jin from China performs with hula-hoops during the German television show
  • WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 11: First lady Michelle Obama does jumping jacks with 400 school children on the South Lawn of the White House, on October 11, 2011 in Washington, DC. First lady Michelle Obama led local school children in doing one minute of continuous jumping jacks while attempting to help break the Guinness world record. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
  • LONDON - NOVEMBER 16: Elaine Davidson the most pierced woman attends the Guinness World Records - 50th Anniversary Party at the Royal Opera House on November 16, 2004 in London. The 2005, or 50th, edition of the famous book was actually published September 10. Total sales now exceed 100 million copies, with over 550,000 sold annually in the UK and four million sold globally. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)
  • LIAONING, CHINA - AUGUST 19: (CHINA MAINLAND OUT) Bikini clad girls take part in a Guinness World Record attempt for the World's Largest Bikini Parade during the 2nd China International Beach & Bikini Culture Exposition on August 19, 2012 in Huludao, Liaoning, China. A total of 1,085 women took part in the parade, setting a new Guinness World Record for the world's largest ever bikini parade. (Photo by TPG/Getty Images)
  • MADRAS, INDIA: Indian man and Guinness World Record holder C. Manoharan popularly known as Snake Manu practices for a new record by putting a live snake up his nose and out through his mouth in Madras, 02 September 2004. Snake Manu currently holds a record for swallowing 200 earthworms in 30 seconds. He now plans to insert a live cobra up his nose and out through his mouth. AFP PHOTO/Dibyangshu SARKAR (Photo credit should read DIBYANGSHU SARKAR/AFP/Getty Images)
  • Ukulele players perform to set a new Guinness world record for the largest ensemble by the Hawaiian guitar in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo on July 28, 2012. A total of 2,134 players strummed on ukuleles, playing Aloha Mahalo A Hui Ho, a song written by Hawaiian-born former sumo wrestler Konishiki. AFP PHOTO / KAZUHIRO NOGI (Photo credit should read KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/GettyImages)
  • Etibar Elchiyev poses with 50 metal spoons stuck to his body during an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for
  • BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA: Briton Isobel Varley, 69, the world's eldest tattooed woman according to the Guinness Book of Records, poses at a hotel in Buenos Aires, 09 July, 2005. Varley is in Argentina to take part of the 1st International Tattoo Convention being held in Buenos Aires. Artists from Switzerland, Italy, US, Spain, Denmark, Brazil, Peru and New Zealand take part in the event. AFP PHOTO/Ali BURAFI (Photo credit should read ALI BURAFI/AFP/Getty Images)
  • Some 641 Thai masseurs and masseuses perform massages as they establish a new Guinness World Record for Thai massage at an indoor sport arena on the outskirts of Bangkok on August 30, 2012. The 641 masseurs and masseuses broke a previous record set in 2010 by 236 masseuses in Australia during the event organised to promote the country's famous massage and spa industry. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/GettyImages)
  • Mexican Maria Jose Cristerna, known as
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  • BEIJING, CHINA - AUGUST 8: (CHINA OUT) 33,996 people take part in an attempt to break the Guinness world record for the largest number of people practising Tai Chi outside the National Olympic Stadium, known as the Bird's Nest on August 8, 2009 in Beijing, China. China holds various activities to mark one year anniversary of the Beijing Olympic Games. (Photo by ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images)
  • GUWAHATI, INDIA - NOVEMBER 11: Patesh Talukdar, a 25-year-old from Assam state, pierces his face with 23 needles during an attempt to make it into the annals of the Guinness Book of World Records 11 November 2002 in Guwahati. Talukdar has already made it into the Limca book of records with his bizzare feat of consuming bulbs and bricks. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read AFP/AFP/Getty Images)
  • LONDON - SEPTEMBER 16: He Pingping, the world's smallest man at 74.61 cm tall, poses with Svetlana Pankratova, who is the woman with the longest legs in the world at 132 cm, as they launch the 2009 edition of the Guinness World Book of Records at Trafalgar Square on September 16, 2008 in London, England. (Photo by Fred Duval/FilmMagic)
  • LONDON - NOVEMBER 11: Man with worlds longest tounge Stephen Taylor poses for photographers at the photocall for the 100 millionth copy of the Guinness World Records in the Tate Modern on November 11, 2003, in London. (Photo by Bruno Vincent/Getty Images)
  • 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. AFP PHOTO / MURRAY RIX (Photo credit should read MURRAY RIX/AFP/Getty Images)
  • PATTAYA, THAILAND: Boontawee Siengwong,26, Thai professional centipede performer poses with centipedes after making a new Guinness World Record for
  • LEEDS, ENGLAND - JULY 27: Katie Price attempts to break the Guinness World Record for the largest book signing at the O2 Academy on July 27, 2011 in Leeds, United Kingdom. (Photo by Shirlaine Forrest/Getty Images)
  • Indian Sikh, Sardar Pishora Singh, displays his 9 cm long eyebrow hair to the press in Amritsar, 03 July 2003. Singh, who has been growing his eyebrow hair for 8 years plans to apply to the Guinness Books of Record for having the longest eyebrow hair in the world. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)
  • BEIJING, CHINA - FEBRUARY 26: (CHINA OUT) More than 100 people take part in the first Underwear Run aiming to break the Guinness World Record at Olympic Forest Park on February 26, 2012 in Beijing, China. (Photo by ChinaFotoPress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images)
  • Thai couples kiss during a competition for the
  • Former England cricketer Andrew
  • A picture taken on May 21, 2012 shows Dubai's recently constructed Princess Tower (C) which has set a new record in the Guinness World Records as the world's tallest residential building. The tower which is located in Dubai Marina is 413.4 (1,356 feet) high and has 101 storeys above ground. AFP PHOTO /KARIM SAHIB (Photo credit should read KARIM SAHIB/AFP/GettyImages)
  • LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 25: Commonwealth Bank gathers 935 Australian sports fans and two-time Olympic Medallist Geoff Huegill on Clapham Common to set a new Guinness World Record for the ?Most people in the same team kit?. The event gave local Australians the chance to welcome the Australian Olympic Team to London on July 25, 2012 in London, England. (Photo: Alan Crowhurst/Getty Images for Commonwealth Bank)
  • Local farmers plant rice shoots during a successful Guinness World Records attempt in the fields of Hsinwu, northern Taoyuan county on August 18, 2012. Some 1,215 local farmers planted 3 million rice shoots in twenty-five miniutes to hold the new Guinness World Record for the largest amount of people gathered to plant rice. AFP PHOTO / SAM YEH (Photo credit should read SAM YEH/AFP/GettyImages)
  • Consolata Melis, who will turn 105 on tomorrow, poses with her nine children, 24 grand-children and 25 great-grandchildren, outside her house in Perdasdefogu village on the island of Sardinia on August 21, 2012. The Melis family are officially the world's oldest with nine brothers and sisters clocking up a total of 818 years between them. AFP PHOTO/ Ettore Loi (Photo credit should read ETTORE LOI/AFP/GettyImages)
  • Girls dressed in Mexican traditional costumes ride horses as they hold a new Guinness World Record at Minerva roundabout in Guadalajara, Mexico, on September 8, 2012. 129 Mexican skirmisher women set a new Guinness record riding in one place in the framework of the Traditional Mariachi Meeting. AFP PHOTO/Hector Guerrero (Photo credit should read HECTOR GUERRERO/AFP/GettyImages)
  • ZHEJIANG, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 11: (CHINA MAINLAND OUT) A man starts his Guinness World Record by walking through China on foot on September 12, 2012 in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China. He plans to finish the trip by 2015. (Photo by TPG/Getty Images)
  • LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 02:
  • LONDON, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 11: Rugby fans form a scrum of 64 people as they record a New Guinness World Record for the largest scrum at Richmond Rugby Club on December 11, 2010 in London, England. (Photo by Christopher Lee/Getty Images)
  • PARIS, FRANCE - SEPTEMBER 15: A model walks the runway during the world's biggest fashion show '2nd edition' at Galeries Lafayette where the Guinness World Record for the most people to walk in a runway show was broken at Galeries Lafayette on September 15, 2011 in Paris, France. (Photo by Kristy Sparow/Getty Images)
  • A 50-foot long bun awaits a bratwurst as Chicago's Berghoff Restaurant goes for the Guinness World Record for the Midwest's Longest Brat on Thursday, September 15, 2011. Proceeds from the sale of the brat at the German restaurant's 26th annual Octoberfest celebration (held in the Federal Plaza in downtown Chicago) were donated to Mercy Home for Boys and Girls. Father Scott Donahue was on hand to measure the brat, which came in at 47 feet and three inches. The brat weighed in at 40 pounds and was made from a pork and beef mix seasoned with salt, black pepper, whole marjoram, sugar and paprika. The pig that provided the casing was named Chic. The 50-foot long bun required 35 pounds of dough and was transported in a trailer from Highland Bakery. A backup bun was also provided. The record must still be certified by Guinness officials. AFP PHOTO / Mira OBERMAN (Photo credit should read MIRA OBERMAN/AFP/Getty Images)
  • PARIS, FRANCE - SEPTEMBER 15: All 800 models pose for a picture in front of the Palais Brongniart before the world's biggest fashion show '2nd edition' at Galeries Lafayette where the Guinness World Record for the most people to walk in a runway show was broken at Galeries Lafayette on September 15, 2011 in Paris, France. (Photo by Kristy Sparow/Getty Images)
  • In this picture taken on September 17, 2011, local students from 170 schools play violins together in a Guinness World Record attempt for the most amount of people playing violins together at one time, at a stadium in central Changhua County. More than 4,600 Taiwanese schoolchildren came together for a mass violin-playing session on September 17, breaking a world record that had stood for 86 years. AFP PHOTO / Sam YEH (Photo credit should read SAM YEH/AFP/Getty Images)
  • LAS VEGAS, NV - OCTOBER 14: Sam Salde of SRS Fabrication holds two margaritas in front of an 8,500-gallon, two-story margarita named
  • BOLOGNA, ITALY - NOVEMBER 16: The biggest chocolate tablet in the world made by italian confectioners Giuseppe Sartoni and Mirco Della Vecchia awarded by the Guinness World Records, during the Cioccoshow 2011 opening day at Sala Borsa on November 16, 2011 in Bologna, Italy. The seventh edition of the Bologna chocolate fair exhibits more than seventy Italian chocolate producers and will run from November 16 until November 20, 2011. (Photo by Mario Carlini - Iguana Press/Getty Images)
  • British inventor Colin Furze rides the worlds fastest mobility scooter with a top speed of 115.21km per hour during 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. AFP PHOTO / BEN STANSALL (Photo credit should read BEN STANSALL/AFP/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. AFP PHOTO / BEN STANSALL (Photo credit should read BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images)
  • 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. AFP PHOTO / BEN STANSALL (Photo credit should read BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images)
  • The Tokyo Sky Tree company president Michiaki Suzuki (L) receives a certificate from Alistair Richards, of the Guinness World Records, before the Tokyo Sky Tree tower in Tokyo on November 17, 2011. The 634-metre-tall Tokyo Sky Tree tower was recognized as the world's tallest tower by Guiness World Records. The construction of the Tokyo Sky Tree, the world's tallest self-supporting communications tower, was set to be completed on February 29, 2012 after a two-month delay due to last year's quake and tsunami. AFP PHOTO / Yoshikazu TSUNO (Photo credit should read YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images)
  • 560 Indian Odissi dancers preform to try and get into the Guinness Book of World Records during the inauguration of the International Odissi dance festival in Bhubaneswar on December 23, 2011. The International Odissi dance festival goes for 8 days with participants from over 40 countries. AFP PHOTO/ STR (Photo credit should read STRDEL/AFP/Getty Images)
  • Indian schoolchildren participate in a mass
  • Chandra Bahadur Dangi, a 72-year-old Nepali poses with his certificates after being declared the world's shortest man by Guinness World Records officials at 54.6 centimetres (21.5 inches) tall in Kathmandu on February 26, 2012. Dangi, a 72-year-old man from a remote valley in southwestern Nepal was on February 26 declared the shortest man ever documented after being measured by Guinness World Records officials. AFP PHOTO/Prakash MATHEMA (Photo credit should read PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP/Getty Images)
  • LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 11: Entertainment One is attempting to set the Guinness World Record for the longest chain of brides in one location at HMV, Oxford Street on March 11, 2012 in London, United Kingdom. The event was held to celebrate to celebrate the DVD release of The Twilight Saga: Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 1 (Photo by Dave J Hogan/Getty Images)
  • Former England cricketer Andrew
  • Dancers try to set a Guinness World Record for the greatest number of people dancing, to the iconic song of Wilson Choperena, 'La Pollera Colora', considered to be the second national anthem of Colombia, on April 29, 2012, in Bogota, Colombia, as part of the celebrations of International Dance Day. AFP PHOTO/GUILLERMO LEGARIA (Photo credit should read GUILLERMO LEGARIA/AFP/GettyImages)
  • MONCHENGLADBACH, GERMANY - JUNE 06: 320 people laid down 142.000 ball to break a new guinness record on the football ground of Borussia Moenchengladbach in the Borussiapark before the Postbank World Cup 2006 kick-off press conference on June 6, 2005 in Monchengladbach, Germany. (Photo by Christof Koepsel/Bongarts/Getty Images)
  • PHILADELPHIA, PA - NOVEMBER 2: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY) In this handout image supplied by Carnival Cruise Lines, film extras surround a huge pinata, which has broken the Guinness Record for the world's largest pinata, on November 2, 2008 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The giant mock donkey measures 60 feet, 4 inches long; 23 feet, 10.5 inches wide and 61 feet, 10.25 inches tall and is filled with 8,000 pounds of candy. A wrecking ball will be used later on Sunday to smash the pinata during a public event. (Photo by Andy Newman/Carnival Cruise Lines via Getty Images)
  • LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 16: (EMBARGOED UNTIL 00.01AM ON SEP 17) The new world's tallest man Sultan Kosen from Turkey, 246.5cm tall (8ft 1in), poses to promote the 2010 version of The Guinness World Records annual book, on September 16, 2009 in London, England. Sultan also holds the record for the largest hands and largest feet, measuring 27.5 cm and 36.5 cm respectively. (Photo by Ferdaus Shamim/WireImage)
  • Participants attempting to set a Guinness World Record in Mattress-Domino fall on mattresses on August 12, 2012 on a parking site in front of a furniture shop in Gruendau-Lieblos, western Germany. For the attempt, 1,150 volunteers fell on mattresses set up around the shop over a distance of 2,4 kilometers and broke a Chinese record, according to media reports. AFP PHOTO / FRANK RUMPENHORST GERMANY OUT (Photo credit should read FRANK RUMPENHORST/AFP/GettyImages)
  • Indian Kathak dancer Chirasree Dasgupta, 22, performs during a demonstration to photographers following her world record in Kathak dance spinning in Kolkata on August 23, 2012. Dasgupta earlier August 23 made a record Kathak dance spin of 107 rotations in a minute confirmed by Guinness World Records officials, breaking the previous record of 102. AFP PHOTO/Dibyangshu SARKAR (Photo credit should read DIBYANGSHU SARKAR/AFP/GettyImages)
  • Jyoti Amge (C), 18, cuts a cake to celebrate her birthday during a news conference in Nagpur on December 16, 2011. Amge was officially announced by the Guinness World Records on December 16 the world's
  • Lutz Eichholz, 25, from Germany, is seen during his attempt to set a new Guinness world record in riding a mono-cycle over bottles of beer in the city of Tel Aviv on September 26, 2011. He succeeded by riding a total length of 8.93 meters consisting of 127 bottles. The former record was 7.99 meters. AFP PHOTO/DAVID BUIMOVITCH (Photo credit should read DAVID BUIMOVITCH/AFP/Getty Images)
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  • NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 30: Thumbelina, billed as the Worlds Smallest Horse by the Guinness Book of World Records, stands back stage with owner Michael Goessling (R) at the Big Apple Circus where she is making a brief appearance November 30, 2006 in New York City. Thumbelina, who weighs just 58 pounds and stands at 17.5 inches tall, is officially described as a dwarf horse. She is making a brief appearance at the circus before heading back to a farm in New York State. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
  • Hong Kong, CHINA: The Guinness World Record Champion of Hula Hoops, Kareena Oates from Australia, performs her hula-hoops skills at a local shopping mall, in Hong Kong, 22 December 2006. Oates manipulates about 70 hula-hoops around her body at one time, and will be shown to the public during the X'mas period until 26 December. AFP PHOTO/Samantha SIN (Photo credit should read SAMANTHA SIN/AFP/Getty Images)
  • A hundred Brazilian surfers attempt to ride a wave and set a new Guinness World Record for the most surfers riding one wave simultaneously, at 'Quebra Mar' beach, in Santos, some 80km south of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 02 September 2007. The event is part of the 1st Earthwave Global Surf Challenge project which aims to raise awareness of global warming and issue a call to action on how to reduce our impact on climate change. The project is taking place also in South Africa -which has the last record with 73 surfers at the same time- Australia, Reunion Island, Portugal, Argentina, England, the USA and Tahiti. AFP PHOTO/Mauricio LIMA (Photo credit should read MAURICIO LIMA/AFP/Getty Images)
  • LONDON - NOVEMBER 08: First News received the Guinness World Record for the smallest newspaper on November 8, 2007 in London, England. The children's newspaper published the paper for Guinness World Record Day. (Photo by Cate Gillon/Getty Images)
  • WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA - DECEMBER 14: Tattoo artist Kat Von D inks a tattoo on someone in an attempt to break the 24-hour Guinness World Tattoo Record at LA Ink December 14, 2007 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Michael Buckner/Getty Images)
  • LAS VEGAS - JANUARY 26: Members of the Red Hat Society crowd a sidewalk after participating in a Guinness World Record attempt for most people in a chorus line January 26, 2008 in Las Vegas, Nevada. About 1,700 members of the RHS lined the Las Vegas Strip to attempt to break the record as part of the celebration of the opening of HATS!, a new musical at Harrah's Las Vegas. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images for Harrah's)
  • LAUDERHILL, FL - AUGUST 14: Joel Waul, 27, poses for a photograph with the 8,200 pound rubber band ball that he created in the driveway of his home August 14, 2008 in Lauderhill, Florida. Once he is finished, Mr. Waul plans on submitting the ball to the Guinness World Records to try and break the record of the current largest rubber band ball in the record book. Waul's ball already is made up of more than 300,000 bands of different sizes and he plans on adding 2,000 more pounds once the material is delivered to his home. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
  • LAS VEGAS - MAY 14: Model and television personality Holly Madison (C) flanked by
  • CHICAGO, IL - JULY 25: (EDITORS NOTE: MULTIPLE EXPOSURE IMAGE) In this handout image provided by Red Bull Photofiles, professional motocross athlete Ronnie Renner broke his own Guinness World Record for highest motorcycle jump off a quarterpipe at the Red Bull High Rise where he jumped 63 feet 5 inches above the ground on July 25, 2009 at Grant Park in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Chris Tedesco/Red Bull via Getty Images)
  • Residents of Sydney pose on the steps to the Sydney Opera House as they attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the largest swimwear parade on November 12, 2009. The attempt held as a fundraiser for the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience and run by swimwear company Budgy Smuggler, fell short of the current record of 287 participants set recently in South Africa. AFP PHOTO / Greg WOOD (Photo credit should read GREG WOOD/AFP/Getty Images)
  • Internationally renowned street performer Chayne Hultgren (a.k.a. 'The Space Cowboy'), re-enacts his 18-sword swallowing attempt for a Guinness World Record in front of the Sydney Opera House on February 8, 2010. The Australian beat his own world record when he simultaneously swallowed 18 swords, each blade measuring 50.8cm by 1.3cm, in the lead-up to this year's International Sword Swallowing Day on February 28. AFP PHOTO / Torsten BLACKWOOD (Photo credit should read TORSTEN BLACKWOOD/AFP/Getty Images)
  • Lebanese chefs celebrate around the largest plate of hummus after setting a new Guinness world record in Beirut on May 8, 2010. The massive hummus serving weighed at 10,452 kilogram (23,520 pounds), the size of Lebanon in square kilometers. This is the third time that the record is broken for the largest hummus serving after Lebanon set the first record in 2009. in January 2010, neighbouring political and culinary rival Israel mashed up over four tonnes of hummus and broke the record. AFP PHOTO/ANWAR AMRO (Photo credit should read ANWAR AMRO/AFP/Getty Images)
 

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