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Jun 02, 2014

Video: This Is What It Sounds Like When 600 Children Pop, Stomp On Bubble Wrap

It sounds like a world record breaking.

Mar 15, 2010

Planned Group Gay Wedding Will Fall Short of Record

Local event planner Mike Wilkinson had big hopes to get into the Guinness Book of World Records by hosting the largest ever group wedding for same-sex couples this Saturday. But he ran into a couple of snags. For one, he says the Guinness people told him they aren’t interested in keeping track of records that have to do with specific demographics, for which this would qualify. And for another, he fell quite a bit…

Dec 06, 2006

Photo of the Day: December 6, 2006

Though we usually feature our Flickr photogs here, this one was too good to pass up. This morning at National Geographic downtown, folks from their Kids magazine went for broke — setting the Guinness World Record for number of stuffed animals gathered in one place. Two-thousand, three hundred and four, to be exact. Preciousness rose to new highs in the room lined on every wall with teddy bears and smiling gorillas, as the record verification…

 
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