A speedy tortoise and a goalkeeping dog have made their way into the new Guinness World Records book. Other highlights from the 2016 edition of the popular tome include the world's tallest married couple and a man with enormous feet.
IBTimesUK shares photos of some of the wackiest new records. For more, see Guinness World Records 2016, published on 10 September 2015.
20-year-old Jeison Orlando Rodriguez Hernandez of Venezuela has made it into the 2016 Guinness World Records book for having the largest feet on a living person. Measuring 40.1cm (1ft 3.79in) for his right foot, and 39.6cm (1ft 3.59in) for his left, Jeison wears a size 26 shoeGuinness World RecordsThe person with the most teeth in the mouth is Vijay Kumar of Bangalore, India. He has 37 teeth. This is five more than is usually found in the average human mouthGuinness World RecordsTallest married couple: With a combined height of 13 feet 10.72 inches (423.47cm), Sun Mingming, 33, and his wife Xu Yan, 29, of Beijing claim the title for tallest married couple, measuring 7ft 8.98in (236.17cm) and 6ft 1.74in (187.3cm) respectivelyGuinness World RecordsFranchesca, a two-year-old angora rabbit from California, owned by Betty Chu, has made it into the 2016 Guinness World Records book for the longest fur on a rabbit. Her longest hair measures 36.5cm (14.37 inches)Guinness World RecordsPurin, a nine-year-old beagle who lives with her owner Makoto Kumagai in Tokyo, Japan, has made it into the 2016 Guinness World Records book for the most balls caught by a dog with its paws in one minute. Purin managed to save 14 goals in 60 secondsGuinness World RecordsThe world's fastest tortoise is Bertie, who currently resides at Adventure Valley in Brasside, County Durham, UK. Bertie clocked a speed of 0.28m/s (0.92 ft/s) on a specially designed racetrack in his enclosureGuinness World RecordsThe most Mentos fountains set off simultaneously is 4,334 and achieved by Chupa Chups Industrial Mexicana and Perfetti Van Melle at the Festival Internacional del Globo in León, Guanajuato, Mexico, on 15 November 2014Guinness World RecordsThe largest hotdog cart in the world, measuring 2.81m (9ft 3in) in width, 7.06m in length, and 3.72m high, was created by 44-year-old Marcus “Hot Dog Man” Daily of MissouriGuinness World RecordsThe highest BASE jump performed from a building is 828 metres (2,716 feet 6 inches), achieved by Fred Fugen and Vince Reffet (both from France) off the Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai, UAE, on 21 April 2014Guinness World RecordsThe most skydivers to parachute from a balloon simultaneously is 25, achieved by Skydive Dubai, above Dubai, UAE, on 10 February 2013Guinness World RecordsThe cargest cowboy boots measure 10.74m (35 ft 3 in) in height and were created by Bob Wade, 72 of Texas, where everything is biggerGuinness World RecordsThe longest ballpoint pen is 5.5 m (18 ft 0.53 in) long and weighs 37.23 kg. The record was set by Acharya Makunuri Srinivasa, aged 56 from Nizamabad, IndiaGuinness World RecordsThe largest gathering of people dressed as Batman is 542 and was achieved by Nexen Energy in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, on 18 September 2014Guinness World RecordsThe largest gathering of mascots consists of 376 people, achieved by the Executive Committee of Yuruchara Summit in Hanyu, Saitama, Japan, on 23 November 2013Guinness World RecordsThe largest gathering of people dressed as Harry Potter is 521 and was achieved by Tanbridge House School in Horsham, West Sussex, UK, on 5 March 2015Guinness World RecordsThe world's largest dental caps measure approximately 50cm (19in) long, 13cm in diameter and weigh 13kg (28lb) each. They were fixed onto a pair of cracked tusks belonging to Spike, a resident Asian elephant, at the Calgary Zoo, Alberta, Canada during a 3 hour 30 min operation on 4 July 2002Guinness World RecordsThe heaviest apple weighed 1.849kg (4 lb 1 oz) and was grown and picked by Chisato Iwasaki at his apple farm in Hirosaki City, Japan on 24 October 2005Guinness World RecordsThe largest 3D balloon sculpture used 104,668 balloons and was constructed by Jeff Wong Kwok Cheong and a team of balloon artists in the shape of a toy bear at the Peak Galleria in Hong Kong, on 28 November 2014Guinness World Records
