The Guinness World Records are wacky and extravagant! From the widest recorded mouth to the oldest person to ever live on Earth. Feast your eyes at our top 10 most popular world records in no particular order.

1. Widest Mouth (Unstretched)
Francisco Domingo Joaquim also known as “Chiquinho” Holds the record for the widest mouth which measures a whopping 17cm wide! His mouth was measured in Rome Italy in 2010 and to this day the record has still not been broken!

2. Largest Human Mattress Dominoes
The largest human mattress dominoes consists of 2,019 people and was achieved by “Globo Comunicação e Participações S.A. and Ortobom” in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 6 August 2019.

It took the human dominoes 11 minutes and 13 seconds to complete their fall of 2,019 people and donated the mattresses to charities after the record for a gesture of good will!

3. Largest Spider Ever Recorded
If you do not like creepy crawlies, it is time to skip record number 3 and go straight to number 4!

The worlds largest known spider is called “Goliath Bird-Eating Spider”. From the name itself you can imagine how big this spider is! In Venezuela, a member of the Pablo San Martin Expedition discovered the King of all spiders in 1965 with a leg span of 28 cm, big enough to cover a standard dinner plate.

4. Longest Fingernails on A Female
The longest fingernails belonged to Lee Redmond who was born in the USA. She started to grow them in 1979 and carefully grew them to reach a total length of 8.65 m or 28ft! The record happened in Madrid, Spain, on 23 February 2008.

5. The Tallest Man to Ever Live
Robert Pershing Wadlow who was Born in the USA is the tallest man ever recorded to live. He was last measured in 1940 and his height was 2.72 m (8ft 11.1in) tall!

At the age of nine, Robert was able to carry his who weighed 77 kg up the stairs of their family home.

6. The Most Dangerous Tree
Yes, you have read our 6th record correctly, you may wonder how trees are dangerous other than potentially breaking and falling on you… Wonder no more as the Manchineel tree is so poisonous and acidic that the slightest contact with human skin causes a breakout of blisters. Blindness can occur if you then touch your eyes! Even standing under it in the rain is enough to cause blistering if the skin is wetted by raindrops containing any sap.

Luckily if you live in the UK, you are safe as the most dangerous trees are in the Florida Everglades and the Caribbean coast.

7. Heaviest Train Pulled by Teeth
Velu Rathakrishnan who was born in Malaysia used his teeth to pull two KTM commuter trains, weighing a total of 260.8 tonnes! That is the equivalent to roughly 37 male African Elephants. He managed to pull the trains for 4.2 meters in 2003.

8. Fastest Motorized Toilet
The next record takes being late to work on another level!

A team of 18-year-old engineering students from Harington School in the UK, fixed a toilet to a go-kart frame powered by a 250-cc Yamaha engine, and used a toilet brush as a gear stick. They reached a speed of 113.531 km/hr (70.545 mph) on a 100m track.

9. The Largest Taekwondo Display
Martial Arts is all about respect. The largest Taekwondo display involves 8,212 participants and was achieved by The National Assembly Taekwondo Federation in South Korea, in April 2018.

The event was arranged to promote the peaceful message of taekwondo all over the world, as well as to pray for the peace and unification of South and North Korea.

10. The Oldest Person Ever Lived
Our final Guinness World Record rightfully goes to Jeanne Louise Calment who was born in France on 21 February 1875. Jeanne was the oldest human with the age of 122 years and 164 days!

Jeanne was no different to any of us, she ate chocolate, had the occasional drink of wine, and smoked for 96 years! She remained in fine health for much of her life and even took up fencing at the young age of 85.

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1.‘The Ring’
One of the old school horror films ever made created the perfect way to comeback. Pranking the public in New York. How the prank worked: sales staff approached the public and gave them a sales pitch before a little child would appear from behind screens scaring the unsuspected shoppers.

2. ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge’.
2 metre statues were placed along coastlines across the UK, to promote the latest film in the series. They were replicas of characters from the film and were found in places such as Brighton, Birling Gap, Portsmouth and Eastbourne.

3. ‘The Perfect Mum’
Baby Dove launches in London with the image of a beautiful, confident and flawless blonde woman, asking is there a perfect mum?

4. ‘Two Hour Marathon’
Nike get involved with attempted to break the 2-hour marathon record by providing runner with the latest ‘science approved’ kit. Aiming to smash the record.

5. ‘The Gin Train’
Bombay Sapphire, allowed travellers the opportunity to move in style and with gin. The immersive ‘gin train’ allowed ticket holders the chance to travel from Java to Ghana and Tuscany whilst drinking gin style cocktails and being entertained by performers.

6. ‘First LED Track’
Nike created the first ever LED track which allowed keen runners the opportunity in running against an avatar version of themselves.

7. ‘Smart Benches’
Cancer Research installed Smart Benches across London, allowing commuters and the locals to be able to donate to the charity by contactless payment. They also provided interest access to the public.

8. ‘Wonderful Every Night’
Ikea attempted to change the nations bedtime routines and habits, by encouraging us to switch off our tablets, iPhones and other devices, enjoy our evenings and take sleeping more seriously!

9.’Find your flow’
The sports drink brand, Lucozade, gave away a free tube ride to commuters by providing them with a bottle of their drink with contactless payment.

10. ‘Run for your Bun!’
A café in London opened that accepted exercise as payment in a way to tackle the UK’s issue with obesity.

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There were 5,000 Thai contestants who performed for a hula hoop competition which set a new world record for the biggest number of individuals doing the hula hoop dance all in one place.

World’s Biggest National Flag – Numerous workers helped each other to carry the national flag of Romania to set the record of the world’s biggest national flag near Bucharest. The flag was measured at 349.4 per 226.9 meters.

Biggest Gathering of Chefs – There were 2,340 chefs and sommeliers who met up to pose for a photograph in Mexico City to beat the record of Dubai which was set by 2,847 chefs in January 2013.

Canada’s Brent Lakatos – British athlete Stefanie Reid gave her hubby, Brent Lakatos, a kiss for breaking the world records by winning the men’s 100m T53 held in East London.

British Columbia’s Stirling Hart – Stirling Hart set a new world record as he competed and won for an open climb event with the pole measuring 90 feet.

Most Facial Masks Applied – In Taipei, 1,231 people broke the Guinness World Record by putting on facial masks that lasted for 10 minutes.

33.1 Kg of Bees on ShePing – She Ping is a beekeeper who broke the world record by getting his body covered with 33.1 kg of bees or 331,000 bees. The last record was set at 26.8 kg of bees only.

Longest Time In Contact With Snow – Jin Songhao even got to enjoy beer and some snack as he endured the cold of direct body contact with snow for a total of 46 minutes and seven seconds.

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