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During the ¿Que Pasa? Festival in Richmond Virginia, 1013 piñatas made of tissue paper and papier-mache were hung up along the canal, to set a world record for largest display of piñatas. After an exhibition, the piñatas will be filled with school supplies instead of candy, and donated to local schools.
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If you noticed a bunch of gnomes gathered in a mushroom shape in Atlanta Georgia, you weren’t seeing things. 755 people dressed up as garden gnomes, to break a world record! Chantelle Rytter and the Krewe of the Grateful Gluttons had been trying to gather enough participants for the last decade, and finally succeeded!
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Brazilian surfer Rodrigo Koxa is an official world record holder. At the 2018 Big Wave Awards, it was announced that his ride on an 80 foot wave in Nazare Portugal last November, was the highest wave ever surfed! His competitor, Britain’s Andrew Cotton, won the Wipeout of the Year Award on a similar wave that day. He’s still recovering!
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The world’s largest dog photo shoot must have been fun to watch. 108 dogs had their portraits taken in Los Angeles California, to celebrate filming the final scene of “Superpower Dogs.” All of the canine subjects were also stars in the documentary about dogs. I can’t wait for the movie to come out!
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Last weekend, the London Marathon resulted in 34 new world records! There was the fastest marathon on stilts, and the fastest people dressed as a carrot, Star Wars character, cheerleader, man in a wedding dress, and Forrest Gump. Even the weather participated: it was the hottest London Marathon on record, at a balmy 75 degrees Fahrenheit.
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An art teacher in Medford, Wisconsin wanted to raise money for a food pantry with her students. She decided to do it by breaking a world record! Jill Fortin made 261 clay pots on a pottery wheel, in one hour. The art club raised $1000 for the food pantry, and kindergarten classes will decorate the pots and plant flowers.
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1,726 people came together to form the largest human recycling logo ever in Chennai India. They wore green shirts and assembled themselves into the familiar triangle of arrows, promoting the “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” motto. In Mumbai, the Plastindia Foundation recycled 200,000 plastic bottles into cloth to make the world’s largest t-shirt! India is BIG on recycling!
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The Sindh forest department in Pakistan wanted to plant some mangrove trees on an island mudflat, to help its threatened ecosystem. They decided to bring attention to coastal conservation by setting a world record in the process. 300 people planted 1,129,294 mangroves in only 12.5 hours! That averages out to 12 seconds per tree!
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The Equipe da Casa do Chocolate takes its name seriously. Brazilian for “house of Chocolate,” the company set a world record for largest chocolate sculpture by building an entire house out of chocolate! The furniture, kitchen, typewriter, and even 2 human figures are all sculpted out of delicious chocolate! I think I’ll eat the chocolate eggs first.
Brynjar Karl Bigisson, from Iceland, loved learning about the Titanic when he was 10. He decided to build a 26 foot-long Lego Titanic after visiting Legoland in Denmark. Brynjar is on the autism spectrum. The massive project helped him communicate with others, while also earning a record for the world’s largest Lego Titanic, with 56,000 bricks!