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Workers roll a rubberband ball to a scale for certification of weight during a Guinness Book of World Records official weigh-in in Chicago on Nov. 21, 2006. The 4,594 pound ball beat the previous record of 3,120.
Milan Roskopf of Slovakia juggles three motor saws during the Impossibility Challenger in Dachau, north of Munich, June 21, 2009. Roskopf, 50, improved his world record by increasing the number of successful times the motor saws were juggled to 62 from 35.
A man looks at the largest mosaic made of corks created by Albanian artist Saimir Strati in Tirana, Albania, Sept. 4, 2008. Strati glued 229,764 corks of various shapes and colors over a plastic banner measuring 12.94 metres by 7.1 metres to make the artpiece "Romeo with a crown of grapes playing the guitar while dancing with the sea and the sun." He worked 14 hours a day for 28 days and completed his project.
Franz Paternosta holds up a Christmas tree bauble in the glassblowing company Joska in Bodenmais near Deggendof, Germany, Dec. 17, 2008. The company produced the world's biggest glass Christmas tree decoration with a diameter of 65 centimeters and a weight of 20 kilograms.
Freddy Nock from Switzerland balances on the ropeway of a cable car leading on Germany's highest mountain, the 9,718-foot Zugspitze, near the southern Bavarian resort of Garmisch-Partenkirchen on August 20, 2011. Nock balanced on the 995-meter-long rope to break his own world record, as part of a charity event.
Guinness World Record holder for the Most Pierced Man, Rolf Bucholz of Germany, poses showing some of his 453 piercings in this 2011 photo.
Actors pose with gym equipment on what the Guinness World Records bills as the world's largest 3D painting, at Canary Wharf in London Nov. 17, 2011. British artist Joe Hill's creation measures in excess of 12,000 square feet, breaking records for the longest and largest surface area 3D painting, according to Guinness.
Thaneshwar Guragai spins a basketball on a toothbrush while holding the toothbrush in his mouth for exactly 22.41 seconds to break the last Guinness record of 13.5 seconds set by Thomas Connors of U.K., in Kathmandu April 19, 2012.
Beekeeper She Ping is covered with bees during a challenge to break the world record in Chongqing Municipality, April 18, 2012. She Ping, 32, broke the world record by covering his body with about 331,000 bees.
Japanese fashion designer Kazuhiro Watanabe, who holds the world record for the tallest mohawk, poses for a photographer at a media event held by the Guinness World Records to launch their 2013 book edition in New York September 12, 2012. According to the Guinness World Records, Watanabe's do stands at 3 feet 8.6 inches.
Jordan Michael Geller poses with his collection of the Nike Air Jordan Retro line at the "ShoeZeum" in downtown Las Vegas, Sept. 25, 2012. Record keepers at the Guinness Book of World Records recently certified that Geller's Shoezeum, a shrine to Nike that he says includes one of every model of Air Jordans ever made, holds the record for the world's largest collection of sneakers, with more than 2,500 pairs, all but eight of which are Nikes.
Grower Pete Glazebrook poses for photographers with his onion weighing 17 pounds 15.5 ounces, that now holds the world record holder for being the heaviest onion, at the Harrogate Autumn Flower Show in Harrogate, northern England Sept. 16, 2011.
A man jumps in a swimming pool filled with pink and green plastic balls during a Guinness World Records attempt of the largest ball pit as part of the "Pink October" campaign at Kerry Hotel in Pudong, Shanghai, Oct. 30, 2013. The event, aimed at raising awareness of breast cancer prevention, set the world record with one million balls in a swimming pool stretching 82 feet long and 41 feet wide.
Jin Songhao drinks beer as he sits in snow during a cold endurance performance in Yanji, Jilin province, Jan. 12, 2013. Jin set the Guinness record for the longest time spent in direct full body contact with snow on Jan. 17, 2011 with a time of 46 minutes and seven seconds.