Weirdest American Guinness World Records

Weirdest American Guinness World Records - Think of the strangest thing a person can do, and there's likely someone who has set a record for it. There's also probably someone who tried to do it better, faster, bigger, or weirder than someone before them. Check out this gallery of Americans who've taken on the admirable task of setting and breaking records by doing things that would probably have never crossed your mind.

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Largest margarita in the world - In 2011, the world’s largest margarita was mixed in Las Vegas, coming in at 32,176 L in a tank that was 16 ft 11 in tall, and an amazing 10 ft in diameter.

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Largest margarita in the world = best party in the world - It took 60 people more than 300 hours to mix “Lucky Rita,” which consisted of around 8,082 L of Margaritaville Gold tequila, 8,639 L of Margaritaville Margarita mix, 2,760 L of Margaritaville triple sec, and 12,870 L of Lemon-x margarita mix. Safe to say, it was a good party.

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World’s largest rubber band ball - Weighing in at 9,032 lbs, the largest rubber band ball in the world was put together by Joel Waul from Lauderhill, FL.

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World’s largest rubber band ball - It took four years and 700,000 rubber bands, it’s 6 ft and 7 in high, and it’s name is “Megaton.”

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Most people twerking simultaneously - The record was set in New York in 2013 and broken the following year in New Orleans, both thanks to musician Big Freedia (who loves twerking so much she even put on a photography exhibit called 'Twerk Of Art'). The 2014 event had 406 people twerking together in harmony.

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Most expensive dessert - If you have a hankering for The Frrrrozen Haute Chocolate ice cream sundae from Serendipity 3 in New York, it’ll set you back a record $25,000.

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Most expensive dessert - It includes a fine blend of almost 30 different cocoas and five grams of edible 23-karat gold, and it’s served in a goblet lined with an 18-karat gold bracelet decked out in a karat of diamonds. You eat the sundae with a gold spoon decorated with diamonds, which you can actually take home.

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Largest collection of sneakers - Jordy Geller owns a record amount of sneakers, totaling 2,388 pairs, which he keeps in a warehouse in Las Vegas that he fondly calls the "ShoeZeum."

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He doesn’t wear any of them - The shoes are all in perfect condition, and his collection is estimated to be worth over a million dollars.

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Largest number of people to ride a wave on a single surfboard - Surfers ranging in age from 15 to 79 came together to break the previous Australian record (47 people) in 2015 by managing to get 66 people on an enormous board for an impressive 13 seconds—three seconds longer than required for the record.

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The board also broke a record - The enormous surfboard measures 42 ft 1.5 in long, 11 ft 1 in wide, and 1 ft 4.4 in thick, breaking the record for the largest surfboard in the world.

(Photo: Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

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World’s longest pizza - Multiple pizzerias came together to set this record in 2017 in Fontana, CA. The pizza measured an astounding 6,333 ft 3.6 in.

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World’s longest pizza - It took approximately 17,700 lbs of dough, 5,000 lbs of tomato sauce, 3,900 lbs of cheese, 54 hours, and over 100 people. Leftovers were donated to local charities.

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Most umbrellas opened at the same time - During a 2016 game between the Minnesota Twins and the Los Angeles Angels, fans at Angel Stadium set the world record for the most umbrellas opened at the same time in a confined space.

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Longest fingernails ever - Americans have dominated this record over the years, but it all started with Lee Redmond, whose peak length of all her fingernails combined was 28 ft 4 in back in 2008, which, for some visual context, is as long as a school bus.

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Ayanna Williams has tips on how to do it - She’s the most recent American to set the fingernail length record for women, and if it in any way appeals to you, Williams’ tips include: having patience, endurance, and strength, avoiding crowds, and using good quality nail polish.

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Largest gathering of people wearing sombreros - Los Angeles Angels fans set a previously untried record in celebration of Cinco de Mayo in 2015, where 28,246 people donned sombreros during a game against the Seattle Mariners.

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Largest piñata - In 2011, M&M’s created the world's largest piñata, in the shape of an orange M&M candy standing on a birthday cake. It was 47 ft high, with a base that measured 68 ft 7 in long and 37 ft 9 in wide. When opened, thousands of packages of Pretzel M&M’s poured out.

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Most sumo dead lifts in one minute - Not as strange as it is weirdly impressive, Raymond Saraiva from Massachusetts lifted 408 lbs a total of 57 times in one minute, at a record total of 23,256 lbs, breaking the previous record of 20,128 lbs.

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Longest ten-pin bowling marathon - Stephen Shanabrook broke the previous record of 100 hours with 134 hours and 57 minutes of bowling, in a total of 643 games.

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Largest Robot Dance - The National Association of College and University Residence Halls in Pittsburgh, PA, set the record for the largest number of people (2,524) dancing like robots.

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Largest popcorn ball - Employees of The Popcorn Factory in Lake Forest, IL, created a ball of popcorn that was 3,423 lbs and measured 24.5 ft around. The only thing missing from this world record was a good movie.

(Photo: Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

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Most people to do jumping jacks in 24 hours - As part of Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move!” initiative, she helped National Geographic Kids rally 300,265 people in various locations across the country to do jumping jacks for one minute, starting at the White House.

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Largest hot dog cart - Marcus Daily created the largest hot dog cart ever made, which is also a full-time family business and stands 12 ft 2.75 in high, 9 ft 3 in wide, and 23 ft 2 in long.

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Largest horn spread on a living steer - A Texas Longhorn cow named Bluegrass, from Lazy J Longhorn ranch, has a horn spread of 117.25 in—a record all American cattle can be proud of.

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Longest usable golf club - You might catch Michael Furrh at the Waterchase Golf Club in Fort Worth, TX, sporting a golf club that is 30 ft 6 in. He broke the record for the fourth time in 2017.

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America’s Guinness World Record record holder - Ashrita Furman, from Brooklyn, NY, has set the record for the most Guinness World Records. He’s set over 600 records and still holds over 200 of them.

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Ashrita Furman - He has gone up Mt. Fuji on a pogo stick, extinguished matches and blow torches with his tongue, performed the most consecutive jumping jacks, blown eggs in cups upside down, hula hooped underwater, and broken arrows with his neck. You’d have a difficult time finding a record he hasn't set.

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A few more for Furman - Most knives caught in a minute, most skips of a rope wearing clogs in a minute, most ice cream scoops balanced on a cone, most bowling balls held simultaneously, fastest time to cross 10 m on light bulbs, fastest time to dry bob six marshmallows, and most baked beans eaten in five minutes with a cocktail stick are just a few of Furman's weirdest achievements.

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