8 of the most outrageous world records ever broken

Ayanna Williams of Houston holds the world record for longest fingernails at a total length of 5.76 metres. She has been growing them for 20 years, reports Fox News. Her left thumb is her longest individual nail measuring 67.81 centimetres.

These other world records will freak you out, too.

This world record was broken at the Lantern Festival in Gutian, China. They presented a parade float that consisted of 345 sections and measured 791 metres long. The float was of a dragon and was made out of paper and bamboo.

The largest pillow fight ever recorded took place in St. Paul, Minnesota, and had 6261 participants. It was during a baseball game on July 21, 2015. The teams took a break from playing ball and the crowd started hitting each other with pillows that had been passed out.

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The largest sushi mosaic, spanning a ridiculous 56.49 square metres, was built in Norway for the 100th anniversary of the Bodo Glimt football club. Four chefs who run a sushi bar in Sweden created the masterpiece using 800 kilograms of salmon and 400 kilograms of rice.

Surprisingly, this wasn’t a gathering for March of the Penguin fans. The largest gathering of people dressed as penguins consisted of 624 people. It was achieved by the Richard House Children’s Hospice in the UK. This gathering actually helps sponsor the Richard House Children’s Hospice cause, which supports children and young adults with terminal health conditions.

In Bangkok, Thailand, 4183 members of the Department of Health and the Ministry of Public Health came together to hula-hoop for a world record. All of the participants’ hula-hoops remained in motion for two consecutive minutes. Pretty impressive.

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You probably wish you were one of the people that helped break this record; 418 people ate breakfast in bed at the Sheraton Langfang Chaobai River Hotel in China on August 16, 2015. Many children also ate breakfast in bed with their parents, but they were not counted in the total number.

On April 15, 2018, the team behind the movie Superpower Dogs broke the world record for largest dog photo shoot ever. To film the closing scene of the movie, the crew put out a casting call for four-legged locals (and their humans) in the Los Angeles area. A total of 108 dogs plus their owners are captured in this photo.

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