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19 March 2024

Weirdest world records: Largest hips...

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Plus-size model and part-time carer Mikel Ruffinelli, who weighs 420 lbs. and whose hips measure more than eight feet in circumference, set the new world record for World's Largest Hips. With husband Reggie and daughters (l-r) Autumn, Destynee and Justyce. (Photo courtesy of World Record Academy)

A seafood stew cooking at a Labor Day barbecue to celebrate the return of students to the campus. Chefs at the university set a new Guinness World Record by cooking the 6,656-pound seafood stew in the same custom-built, 1-ton, 14-foot frying pan used last year to set a Guinness Record of 4,010 pounds for the world's largest stir-fry. (AP)

People take part in an attempt to break the Guinness world record for most number of people simultaneously hula-hooping at Thammasat University stadium in Pathum Thani province, on the outskirts of Bangkok February 12, 2013. (REUTERS)

French athlete Philippe Croizon (L), whose arms and legs were amputated after an electric shock accident in March 1994, swims next to an unidentified diver in a 33 metre (36 yard) deep pool, the world's deepest pool built to train professional divers, at Nemo33 diving centre in Brussels January 10, 2013. Croizon, who swam with adapted prostheses that had flippers attached, broke a world record and became the first disabled person to dive to 33 metres, according to the organisers. (REUTERS)

Participants laugh as they get themselves positioned to pose for mock-up photographs for the media after getting back in the car following a successful Guinness World Record attempt to fit 28 ladies into a Mini car backdropped by Tower Bridge in London. (AP)

Michael Empric, Guiness Worlds Records Adjudicator, looks on as chef Drew Deckman adds cheese while preparing the World's Largest Fritos Chili Pie at the State Fair of Texas, on Monday, Oct. 1, 2012 in Dallas. The pie weighed in at 1,325 pounds, and was created to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Fritos Corn Chips. (AP)

Gabriel Guallo of Ecuador's Quichua tribe stands with a tarantula on his face to demonstrate how he is planning to break a world record, in El Tena October 2, 2012. Guallo hopes to carry 250 tarantulas on his body for 60 seconds during a special ceremony in February 2013 to break what he says is the existing record for most tarantulas carried on the body (240 tarantulas for 30 seconds). (REUTERS)