10 Amazing & Bizarre Guinness World Records
This month Guinness World Records are marking 60 years of record-breaking achievements. To celebrate, here are 10 world record feats ranging from the amazing to the bizarre…
World’s Longest Moustache
The record for the longest moustache is a huge 4.29m, that’s around the length of an average car! It belongs to Ram Singh Chauhan from India and was measured on 4 March 2010.
World’s Longest Pizza
Some of Italy’s most talented chefs created the world’s longest pizza, measuring nearly a mile – that’s just over 15 football pitches long! It took 60 chefs over 18 hours to create the pizza using one and a half tonnes of mozzarella cheese and two tonnes of tomato sauce, the pizza weighed in at five tonnes.
Most People on a Surfboard
Surfers in California, America, have broken the world record for the most people riding a wave on a surfboard at the same time. Sixty-six people rode a 12.8m surfboard for more than 10 seconds to break the record.
World’s Tallest Lego Tower
A thousand volunteers in Milan, Italy spent days creating the tallest Lego brick tower in the world. At 35.5m, the structure is bigger than four double decker buses!
Most Gurning World Titles
The only male gurner to win the world title an amazing 16 times is Tommy Mattinson from Cumbria. His flexible face took the top prize at the annual Gurning World Championship at Egremont Crab Fair, the event involves hopefuls pulling an ugly face through a horse collar or "braffin".
The Longest Coin Spin
The longest coin spinning duration is 25.71 seconds, achieved by Keita Hashimoto of Japan. See if you can beat the record yourself, the only rules are: you must use a 10p, on a flat surface that is no more than 1m x 1m.
The Youngest X Games Athlete
The X Games is a yearly extreme sports tournament featuring events such as skateboarding, BMX’ing and snowboarding. The youngest ever athlete to compete is skateboarder Jagger Eaton who was 11 years, 129 days old when he made his debut at X Games 18 (28 June - 1 July 2012).
The Largest Scoop of Ice Cream
The largest scoop of ice cream in the world weighed in at a huge 1365kg (1.3 tonnes), that’s around the weight of an adult Black Rhino! The strawberry flavored ice-cream scoop measured 1.6m tall and 1.8m wide, containing 733 containers of ice-cream.
Largest real-world place created in Minecraft
The largest real-world place ever created in Minecraft is the UK! Using its open geographical data for the UK, the Ordnance Survey created a map of mainland Britain and surrounding islands in Minecraft. Using 22 billion blocks in total, each block represents a ground area of 50 square metres.
Fastest 100m on a Skateboard by a Dog
The fastest 100m on a skateboard by a dog is 19.65 seconds and was achieved by Jumpy the dog on CBBC's Officially Amazing in Los Angeles, California, USA, on 16 September 2013.
