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5 Worlds Coolest Records

<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Making the decision to try and break one of the many Guinness World Records certainly gets people thinking&period; There are plenty of established records out there&comma; just waiting for someone to have a go&comma; but some people prefer to play on their own strengths or get creative and come up with their own&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">While&comma; in the early days&comma; Guinness World Records tended to consist of the fastest this or the heaviest that&comma; there is now a new wave of spectacular and imaginative records being established&period; Let’s take a look at the world’s five coolest records&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">1&rpar; When Estee Lauder wanted to raise awareness of its Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign&comma; some bright spark came up with the idea of illuminating major landmarks across the globe&period; The result was the record-breaking &OpenCurlyQuote;Global Landmarks Illumination Initiative’&comma; which saw 38 structures such as the EmpireStateBuilding in New York and the Taj Mahal Hotel in India lit up like Christmas Trees&period; As far as the coverage went&comma; 24 four countries reported on the event&comma; spreading the word to over six million people&comma; and boosting the Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign around the world&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-5159" alt&equals;"Television journalist Takashi Yanagisawa holds a measuring tape from atop a step ladder while interviewing Japanese fashion designer Kazuhiro Watanabe in New York" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;medusamagazine&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2013&sol;07&sol;Kazuhiro-Watanabe-REU-640x959&period;jpg" width&equals;"384" height&equals;"550" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">2&rpar; Kazuhiro Watanabe put in 15 years of hard work before finally achieving a world record in 2011&period; For hard work&comma; read… growing his hair&semi; Kazuhiro is now the proud bearer of the World’s Tallest Mohican&period; The previous owner measured up at 31&period;5 inches&period; Kazuhiro trumped that by a further 13 inches&comma; coming in at a towering 44&period;68 inches&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">3&rpar; This is one of those Guinness World Records that will probably make you scratch your head and ask &OpenCurlyQuote;why&quest;’ The answer&comma; as with most of these is&colon; because it’s cool&period; In 2009&comma; a dog handler by the name of Uchida Geinousha set the world record for the most number of dogs skipping on the same rope&period; As part of a Japanese TV special&comma; Uchida and his Super Wan Circus successfully got 13 record-breaking canines to skip over one length of rope&comma; all at the same time&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">4&rpar; 2011 seems to have been a good year for breaking Guinness World Records and while this one might not technically be one of the coolest&comma; it’s certainly one of the hottest&excl; On 11<sup>th<&sol;sup> January&comma; that year&comma; Antonio Restivo&comma; an American fire-breather broke the world record for the Highest Flame blown by a Fire Breather&period; The previous record&comma; set by Tim Black&comma; came in at an eyebrow-scorching 7&period;2 metres&period; However&comma; Antonio topped that by blowing a flame that reached 8&period;05 metres&period; Do not try this at home&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">5&rpar; Kevin Shelley’s world record is not to be sniffed at&period; In 2007 he set record bar for the Most Toilet Seats Broken by the Head in One Minute&period; You may want to reread that&comma; but that’s what he did&colon; in 60 seconds&comma; Kevin successfully broke 46 toilet seats&comma; using the ancient art of head butting&period; It’s probably fair to say that his exertions left him feeling a little flushed…<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">So there we have it&colon; the Top 5 Coolest Guinness World Records&period; Think you could do better&quest; Maybe it’s time to put your thinking cap on&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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