World's Largest Snot Bubble Infographic

In all honesty, my infographicing skills have frankly gotten better since I first adapted this, and the quality of the infographic is clearly essential for getting more truth and facts into the ether.

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Longest Cow-Milking Infographic

An odd record, but one that stands as a testament to what a suitably determined farmer can do.

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World's Worst Ball Boy (tennis) Infographic

A quick note: I chose to specify tennis in the title, because there are, of course, ball boys in other sports, all with their own brands of awfulness, which I will probably attempt to document in the future. Here, though, is tennis' representative.

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Worst Answerphone message Infographic

I've had to find some new images for this entry, as the permissions on the images have changed since I originally shared it, but further research has found material that led to:

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The Record for shouting “Cha cha taxi Chi chi”

This week's entry is confusingly titled, but here is the original article, and I hope Barnaby's record is inspiring for some of my readers.

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World's biggest piece of cheese infographic

An infographic for the biggest piece of cheese, from 2008. Damn.

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Infographic of the world's largest snot bubble

This post was an early one that still seems to get a goof few hits regularly, so here it is, getting the infographic treatment, because I like that kind of thing.

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Dead cat infographic - back to the beginning!

Having been happy with last week's infographic about the Hitman's dog, I've made a few more, and here's one, developed from the first ever TYDKYDNTK (my, that is a cumbersome acronym) entry, back in 2008. I've been doing this 5 years! Blimey.

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fastest throwing of Chicken’s feet at circus clowns

The record for fastest throwing of Chicken’s feet at circus clowns was set by Canadian Pierre Kalynuk in March 1975. He threw 50 chicken’s feet in 1 min 12 seconds when the touring Crispin Circus visited his hometown of Buddirok. He said, “I’ve always hated clowns, but loved chickens. I feel that in setting this record I’ve expressed myself in a way I couldn’t have done otherwise.”

In this photograph, Kalynuk can be seen, entering the Crispin Circus from the North entrance, silhouetted in the door with a hat on. He purchased the chicken's feet from Todd Plinth, a food vendor outside. Plinth told the Buddirok Chronicle later, "Of course I was suspicious. I mean, some fella buying 9 packets of chicken feet ain't normal. Still, I thought, just how much damage can he do? Turns out that boy was fixing to do something wonderful with those feet."  Photograph by Bob n Renee.

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World's smallest roundabout

The world’s smallest roundabout is on the B247, in Walliesbottom, Sussex. It encircles a pond with a diameter of 1.25 metres, which used to be in the back garden of Marcus Sodbury’s house. When the new road was built in 2002, Mr. Sodbury’s house was demolished to make way for it, but due to a byelaw dating back to the 16^th Century, the pond had to be preserved, and the road had to go around it, rather than to the side, “lest Lucifer find his way o’er the vacant side of the lane.”

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World's biggest piece of cheese

The world’s biggest piece of cheese was made by Hamza Akhrash, a Kazakhstani farmer between January and July 1995. Hamza told the national news programme he produced the hunk of Gouda, weighing 3.4 metric tonnes, “because my home town lacked a tourist attraction. Now I hope the council will be able to build a municipal swimming baths.”

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Most Kinder Egg Surprises

The record for most Kinder Egg Surprise toys is 52, 514, owned by Martin Parsley of Norwich. Asked about his collection, he said, “I started collecting them in 1984, but the funny thing is, it wasn’t until 1991 that I realised there were toys in the little yellow thingies, so you can imagine my surprise!”

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Worst Blaxpoitation Movie

The worst ever Blaxploitation movie was the 1978 production, Brother T-Rex, starring Odell Hazelwood as Terrence “Brother T-Rex” Lucas, an African-American archaeologist, based in Queens, New York, with Cleona Versailles as his assistant Latysha “Galaxy Hazelnut” Shaw. The plot involved Lucas protecting the remains of an ancient African kingdom from historical revisionist, Ku-Klux-Klan, CIA-funded ninja monks. The film is often cited as an inspiration for Steven Spielberg and George Lucas’ Indiana Jones series of films, despite the fact that neither of them could have seen it, as the film was destroyed after it’s first showing in a Harlem cinema for being, according to the proprietor, Madame Fiji Moses, “too damn booty for words.”

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Dead cat swinging

The World record for smallest room in which a dead cat was swung was set by Sicilian Guillermo Piccolo in September 1984. He swung the corpse of his family’s 3-Year old pet cat Franco in the 1.3m² bathroom of their apartment. He said afterwards, “This was our way of giving Franco immortality before we buried her. She was a good pet.”

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