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In november 2016, a team of electrical and materials engineering. Although she is no longer alive, the 2,000 lb cow was announced as the new record holder in 2014. Smashinglists presents some of the weirdest record holding peoples along with their so called special abilities, which are sure to entertain any person who reads them. But the record of the weirdestrandom thing ever to eat was made by michel lotito 19502007, better known as. In its mysterious pages, you will find redferns personal top 25 paranormalthemed locales, and the strange, amazing, and diabolical things that lurk within them. Gorske consumed his 26,000th mcdonalds big mac on october 11, 2012 after 40 years of eating big macs on a daily basis. Weirdest guinness world record holders guinness world. Weirdest world records in new guinness world records book. Every year, we look forward to seeing what new thing is in the book. Book dominoes guinness world records 2016 guinness world records. Ask a librarian to show you their collection of guinness world record books. The following is a small sample of thirty odd or unusual world records.
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