Women take part in an attempt to set a new Guinness world record for most Lucy Ricardo lookalikes assembled in one place, in Jamestown, New York . “I Love Lucy” star Lucille Ball’s New York hometown will be filled with red-lipsticked, redheaded lookalikes to try to break a world record in honor of what would have been the actress’ 100th birthday.. REUTERS/Doug Benz
An apprentice of beekeeper She Ping uses burning incense to drive off bees from She’s face as he assists covering She’s body with bees in order to break a world record in Chongqing Municipality,. She Ping, 32, broke the world record on Wednesday by covering his body with 33.1 kilograms of bees (about 331,000 bees), overtaking the last world record of 26.8 kilograms of bees which was attempted by a Jiangxi province beekeeper Ruan Liangming.. REUTERS/China Daily
Chris “The Duchess” Walton shows off her Guinness world record holding fingernails outside the New York Public Library in New York. Her nails measure 10 feet 2 inches on her left hand and 9 feet 7 inches on her right hand that she has been growing for 18 years.. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
Chefs cook an omelette during a Guinness World Records attempt for the world’s largest omelette. The Turkish Egg Producers Association celebrated World Egg Daywith an attempt to cook the world’s largest omelette weighing 6 tonnes with a total of 432 litres of oil and 110,000 eggs used. The current record holder for the largest omelette was one made in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, weighing 3.625 tonnes, according to the Guinness World Records website.. REUTERS/Umit Bektas
Etibar Elchiyev poses with 50 metal spoons magnetized to his body during an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for “Most spoons on a human body” in Tbilisi. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili
Workers roll a rubberband ball to a scale for certification of weight during a Guinness Book of World Records official weigh-in in Chicago . The 4,594 pound (2,084 kg) ball beat the previous record of 3,120.. REUTERS/Frank Polich
Estonia’s strong man team pulls “Baltic Queen”, a 21746 ton passenger ferry, in Tallinn May 20, 2011. The athletes set a new world record for the heaviest weight pulled by manpower, organizers said.. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins
Television journalist Takashi Yanagisawa holds a measuring tape from atop a step ladder while interviewing Japanese fashion designer Kazuhiro Watanabe, who holds the world record for the “Tallest Mohawk,” during a media event held by the Guinness World Records to launch their 2013 book edition in New York. According to the Guinness World Records, Watanabe’s do stands at 3 feet 8.6 inches.. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
Mexican workers prepare the largest sandwich in the world, in the main Zocalo square in Mexico City. The sandwich, weighing 3,178 kg (6,991 pounds), was made by Mexican company Bimbo in conjunction with McCormick, Fud, Chalet and Petalo Jumbo. It was certified by Guinness Book of World Record officials.. REUTERS/Henry Romero
Samat Hasan, a 24-year-old stuntman from Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, walks on a tightrope in Zhangjiajie, Hunan province April 25, 2009. Walking on a 700-metre-long (2,300 ft) rope with a 3.1-centimetre (1.2 inches) diameter and set at a 39-degree gradient, Hasan successfully broke the Guinness World Record for aerial tightrope walking after failing in a previous attempt.. REUTERS/China Daily
Actors pose with gym equipment on what the Guinness World Records bills as the world’s largest 3D painting, at Canary Wharf in London. British artist Joe Hill’s creation measures in excess of 1120 square metres (12,000 square feet), breaking records for the longest and largest surface area 3D painting, according to Guinness.. REUTERS/Paul Hackett
Runners dressed in inflatable Sumo costumes take part in a charity 5km (3 miles) run at Battersea Park in London. Organisers claimed a new world record for a mass Sumo suit gathering at the annual event.. REUTERS/Toby Melville
Guinness World Record holder for the Most Pierced Man Bucholz shows some of his 453 piercings in Dortmund.. REUTERS/Ina Fassbender
A tower created from Lego bricks is pictured completed in front of Oslo City Hall. It measures 30,22 meters and beats last year’s record set in Munich by 25 centimetres, according to Norway’s media.. REUTERS/Norsk Telegrambyra AS
25-year-old German Lutz Eichholz rides his unicycle along upright beer bottles in Tel Aviv, during his attempt to break the world record. Eichholz on Monday set a new Guinness world record by riding his unicycle over a 8.93-metre-long row of 127 beer bottles. According to organisers, the previous record was 7.99 metres.. REUTERS/NIR ELIAS
