Weird World Records

Officials prepare to serve a fruit and cream cake in Bucharest during a Guinness World Record event for the world’s heaviest cake on Dec. 28, 2008.  (Bogdan Cristel / Reuters)

The Frrrozen Haute Chocolate is unveiled at the Serendipity-3 restaurant in New York November 7, 2007 after Guiness World Records researchers determined the $25,000 frozen hot chocolate was the most expensive dessert in the world.  (Chip East / Reuters)

Mexican workers prepare the largest sandwich in the world, in the main Zocalo square in Mexico City on April 24, 2004.  (Henry Romero/Reuters)

British strong man Mangit Singh attempts to break a world record for pulling a traditional London bus with his ears, in central London on Nov. 8, 2007.  (Toby Melville / Reuters)

A Philippine girl looks with amusement at a long sausage on display in San Fernando city, Pampanga province, north of Manila May 29, 2006. The local sausage, known as “Longganisa” and measuring about 2 miles, was an attempt by local meat processors to land the world’s largest sausage record, but it fell short.  (Stringer Philippines/Reuters)

Pugs in wedding clothes wait for their turn to walk down the aisle during an attempt to break the Guinness record for the largest mass dog “wedding”, in Littleton, Colorado on May 19, 2007.  (Rick Wilking / Reuters)

Amanda Hanes, 14, launches her kite as she takes part alongside 1,182 participants in an attempt to set the world record for the most number of kites aloft at the same time in one location in Wheaton, Ill., on April 18, 2009.  (John Gress / Reuters)

Paraguayans barbeque beef during an attempt to create the world’s biggest barbecue in Mariano Roque Alonso near Asuncion on Oct. 26, 2008.  (Jorge Adorno / Reuters)

Newlyweds Zhenya Semenov and Natasha Semenova kiss as they stand in front of Ukraine’s longest column of wedding cars in Kiev April 7, 2007.  (Stringer Russia/Reuters)

Ashrita Furman lines up a shot before bowling backwards during his attempt to break the world record at a bowling alley in Queens, New York on May 19, 2005.  (Seth Wenig/Reuters)

Holder of the most Guinness World Records, Ashrita Furman, 50, a U.S. citizen from New York attempts a new record at the Pyramids in Cairo April 3, 2005. Furman walked 7 miles balancing a billiard cue on the tip of his finger.  (Aladin Abdel Naby/Reuters)

Guitarists hold their guitars at a stadium in Shillong, the capital of India’s northeastern state of Meghalya on Oct. 26, 2007.  (Utpal Baruah/Reuters)

A couple kisses in front of Budapest’s Parliament during an attempt to break a Guinness record for simultaneous kissing on June 9, 2007.  (Karoly Arvai / Reuters)

Staff members try to move a huge trolley case during the 100th Chinese Export Commodities Fair in Guangzhou, south China’s Guangdong province on Oct. 15, 2006.  (Alvin Chan / Reuters)

Croatian cooks prepare to fry the longest sausage in the world in eastern Croatia’s town of Vinkovci some 244 miles east of Zagreb on Feb. 14, 2009.  (Nikola Solic / Reuters)

Women wear stiletto heels in a race for a prize of A$5,000 ($4,250) at Circular Quay in Sydney on Sept. 2, 2008.  (Will Burgess / Reuters)

Ashrita Furman of the U.S. holds a tiger on a leash, at the start of a world record attempt, while skipping at the Tiger Temple in Kanchanaburi province, 75 miles north-west of Bangkok on Feb. 4, 2007.  (Sukree Sukplang/Reuters)

A woman steps into a swimming pool with some 20,000 apples in it during a photo session in an attempt to set the national record for “The Most Number of Apples Used In Spa Therapy” in Port Dickson.  (Bazuki Muhammad/Reuters)

An aerial view shows the length of the train of a wedding dress during a wedding ceremony in Jilin city, Jilin province on Aug. 6, 2009.  (Stringer Shanghai / Reuters)

Workers unfurl a huge Philippine flag in commemoration of the 111th Independence Day celebrations outside a mall in Manila on June 12, 2009.  (Romeo Ranoco / Reuters)

A Guinness World Records holder Yang Xiangdong drives a car through 60-meter steel tightrope at the Yanxi Lake in Beijing on May 1, 2006.  (China Daily China Daily Information Corp - CDIC / Reuters)

Chefs prepare the traditional ceviche, a Peruvian seafood specialty, in Lima on Dec. 7, 2008.  (Pilar Olivares / Reuters)

Two girls walk next to a line of pizzas during the Italian Festival in Sydney on June 8, 2008.  (Daniel Munoz / Reuters)

Rainer Schroeder, 48, from Germany bends a horse shoe with his teeth to set a new World Record during the Impossibility Challenger in Dachau, north of Munich June 21, 2009.  (Michaela Rehle/Reuters)

Palestinians make the world’s largest Tabouleh salad in Ramallah on June 9, 2006.  (Loay Abu Haykel/Reuters)

Ashrita Furman of the U.S. attempts to set a new Guinness record balancing 22 milk crates on his chin in Pisa, Italy Sept. 10, 2005, but he failed in his attempt.  (Max Rossi/Reuters)

Some of the 1,200 people who gathered perform yoga at the square of a park in Chengdu, southwest China’s Sichuan province on Aug. 6, 2006.  (China Daily China Daily Information Corp - CDIC/Reuters)

Shamsher Singh Saroye, an Indian Sikh, displays his Guinness Book of World Records certificate for his 183cm-long beard, in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh on Nov. 7, 2007.  (Ho New/ Reuters)

An aerial view of the swimming pool at the resort of San Alfonso del Mar in Algarrobo city on the southern coast of Chile, some 100 km (62 miles) west of Santiago, January 21, 2008. Acknowledged by the Guinness World Records as the world’s largest swimming pool, the lagoon measures 3,323 ft. in length.  (Eliseo Fernandez/Reuters)

Cheesebearers of the Alkmaar cheese market pose with a slab of Gouda cheese weighing 600.5 kg (1,324 lbs) in Alkmaar on Oct. 6, 2006.  (Paul Vreeker/Reuters)

Synchronised swimmers from the Aquabatix team practise their routine in the fountains at Trafalgar Square in London on July 21, 2006.  (Toby Melville/Reuters)

Tipnis Shobha from India blows into a hot-water bottle during the 12th impossibilty challenger world record trials in Dachau on Nov. 6, 2005.  (Michaela Rehle/Reuters)

Students brush their teeth in Rizal park in Manila in an attempt to break the world record for simultaneous teeth brushing on Feb. 21, 2007.  (Romeo Ranoco/Reuters)

Ashrita Furman attempts to set the Guinness world record for hula hooping with the largest hula hoop in New York’s Flushing Meadow Park on July 15, 2005.  (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)

Chefs use wooden paddles to mix the world’s largest peasant omelette during an international open air cooking contest in Bucharest on May 8, 2009.  (Bogdan Cristel/Reuters)

Samat Hasan, a 24-year-old stuntman from the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, walks on a tightrope in Zhangjiajie, China.  (China Daily/Reuters)

Peter Koppen of Germany holds one of the 12 paper ships, made from 5.5 by 8 millimetre paper sheets, he folded during the Impossibility Challenger in Dachau on June 21, 2009.  (Michaela Rehle/Reuters)

About 9,829 bras are seen hanging in the Belgian seaside city of Oostduinkerke on Aug. 13, 2005.  (Peter Maenhoudt/Reuters)

People look at a 500m long durian-filled bun baked by students at the Philippine Women College in Davao City, southern Philippines on Aug. 19, 2006.  (Stringer Philippines/Reuters)

A worker adjusts glasses in the shopping center Wijnegem near Antwerp on Jan. 25, 2008.  (Francois Lenoir/Reuters)

A man looks at the largest mosaic made of corks created by Albanian artist Saimir Strati in Tirana on Sept. 4, 2008.  (Arben Celi/Reuters)

An Indian man swallows worms in the southern Indian city of Madras on Nov. 15, 2003.  (Ananthakrishnan/Reuters)

Sofie Schwarz attempts to break the children’s world record of ringing 88 hula-hoops at the same time in Copenhagen.  (Lars Helsinghof/Reuters)

People dressed as Santa Claus participate in an event attempting to win the Guinness World Record for the most numerous Santa Clauses in one town in Bucharest.  (Bogdan Cristel/Reuters)

Israeli hairdresser cuts hair while skydiving above northern Israel.  (Ho New/Reuters)

Brazilian surfing legend Rico de Souza poses with a surfboard in Rio de Janeiro.  (Sergio Moraes/Reuters)

Majed Elmalk poses for a photographer with scorpions in his mouth in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.  (Fahad Shadeed/Reuters)

Pipes of the Wanamaker Grand Court Pipe Organ in Macy’s Center City Store in Philadelphia.  (Ray Stubblebine/Reuters)

Around 400 people fight with pillows during a world record attempt in pillow fighting in Stuttgart on April 8, 2006.  (Michaela Rehle/Reuters)

Women dressed in bikinis pose for a photographer on Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Sept. 26, 2007.  (Tim Wimborne/Reuters)

Workers roll a rubberband ball during a weight certification in Chicago in 2006.  (Frank Polich/Reuters)

A cook prepares the world’s biggest green salad during an event in the Spanish southern village of Pulpi on Sept. 29, 2007.  (Francisco Bonilla/Reuters)

Stilt-walkers participate in Cirque du Soleil’s attempt at a Guinness world record for most people simultaneously walking on stilts in Montreal on June 16, 2009.  (Christinne Muschi/Reuters)

A Jordanian worker performs noon prayer on a huge sofa in Amman on June 19, 2006.  (Ali Jarekji/Reuters)

A cheesemaker works to produce a 783.6-metre-long interlaced mozzarella in the southern Italian village of Frosolone.  (Dario Pignatelli/Reuters)

Brazilian Elaine Davidson has 1903 body piercings.  (Lee Besford/Reuters)

Student chefs stand next to a big cheesecake in Mexico City on Jan. 25, 2009.  (Jorge Dan Lopez/Reuters)

South Korean models pose in front of a 28.09-metre high pair of jeans in Seoul.  (Kim Kyung Hoon/Reuters)

Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo slices a giant strawberry shaped shortcake in Manila on March 19, 2007.  (Ho New/Reuters)

Seventy-four scuba divers dance to set the world record for an underwater dance class at Sydney’s Olympic Park Aquatic Centre on Oct. 27, 2006.  (David Gray/Reuters)

Israeli Yitzhak Yazdanpana poses with a cucumber that grew in his garden in Petah Tikva near Tel Aviv on June 30, 2009.  (Gil Cohen Magen/Reuters)

Jewgenij Kuschnow of Austria poses for photographers while he does the splits between two cars for 36.48 seconds along during the Impossibility Challenger in Dachau.  (Michaela Rehle/Reuters)

People practice Taiji in multiple locations in Shenyang, China in 2009.  (Sheng Li/Reuters)

A cook counts 666 chickens which are barbequed at the same time in Stans, central Switzerland on July 5, 2008.  (Michael Buholzer/Reuters)

Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan seen in movie that set record for 770 weeks of screening in Mumbai.  (Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)

A tower created from Lego bricks is pictured completed in front of Oslo City Hall on April 24, 2010.  (Scanpix Norway/Reuters)

The media surrounds a five-room flat made of regular beer mats as the creation is destroyed by its designer and builder Sven Goebel in Vogelsang.  (Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters)

Brian Spotts of the U.S. works to balance 439 eggs on their ends on the floor of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne on Sept. 14, 2005.  (Ho New/Reuters)

Runners dressed in inflatable Sumo costumes take part in a charity 5km run at Battersea Park in London on June 19, 2010.  (Toby Melville/Reuters)

Alexandr Belozor paints on the bottom of the Black Sea near Yalta, during an attempt to create the largest underwater painting on Aug. 5, 2010.  (Mihail Semyenov/Reuters)

A Pygmy Marmoset is seen at a primate rescue and rehabilitation center near Santiago on Aug. 3, 2010.  (Ivan Alvarado/Reuters)

Thrillseekers ride nude to raise money for Southend Hospital’s breast care unit at an amusement park in Southend-on-Sea, southeast England on Aug. 8, 2010.  (Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters)

Lebanese Shi’ite sheikh Hassan al-Zayyat marks punctuation on Koranic verses that he had hand copied on 100x70 cm pages in his village of Tayr Dibba, southern Lebanon in Aug. 2010.  (Ali Hashisho/Reuters)

Mascots pose during an international mascot parade in Karlsruhe, on Oct. 10, 2010.  (Alex Domanski/Reuters)

Chefs cook an omelette during a Guinness World Records attempt for the world’s largest omelette in Ankara on Oct. 8, 2010.  (Umit Bektas/Reuters)

Giant George poses with its owner David Nasser during a photo call in N.Y.  (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)

Edward Nino Hernandez dances in his home in Bogota on Sept. 6, 2010.  (John Vizcaino/Reuters)

Israeli grandmaster Alik Gershon looks at a board during a simultaneous chess game at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on Oct. 21, 2010.  (Nir Elias/Reuters)

Septuagenarian Isobel Varley poses during ‘II Expotatoo’ tattoo fair in Gijon, northern Spain, on May 15, 2009.  (Eloy Alonso/Reuters)

A cigar that stretched 268 feet 4 inches, or most of the length of a football field, is seen in Havana on May 3, 2011.  (Desmond Boylan/Reuters)

People stand together as they create the biggest human smiley in the world on the Zagreb main square on May 6, 2011.  (Nikola Solic/Reuters)

Women take part in an attempt to set a new Guinness world record for most Lucy Ricardo lookalikes assembled in one place, in Jamestown, N.Y.  (Doug Benz/Reuters)

Junrey Balawing holds a ruler in front of his family and townmates in Sindangan, Zamboanga del Norte in southern Philippines on June 12, 2011.  (Erik de Castro/ Reuters)

Salsa dancer Paddy Jones, 76, from Britain performs with her Spanish partner Nicko during an exhibition at the International Salsa Congress in Lima on Feb. 17, 2011.  (Enrique Castro-Mendivil/Reuters)

World’s steepest roller coaster “Takabisha” with a free falling angle of 121 degrees is seen at Fuji-Q Highland amusement park in Fujiyoshida, Japan.  (Ho New/Reuters)

Chris “The Duchess” Walton shows off her Guinness world record holding fingernails outside the New York Public Library in New York.  (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)