I'll list about ten of them.
Many people do crazy things to get into the Guinness Book of World Records ; some world record holders hold them for physical anomalies, such as being the world's tallest or shortest person, but the Guinness Book of World Records is full of strange and incredible attempts.
- A beekeeper in China is burning incense to chase bees away from his assistant's face after she broke the world record for body coverage with about 33 kg of bees, surpassing the previous world record which was 26.8 kilograms.
- Chris Walton, nicknamed "The Duchess" of New York, a world record holder, shows off her abnormally long fingernails : they measure about 26 cm on her left hand and about 24 cm on her right. She hasn't cut her nails in 18 years.
- The world's largest trolley was designed in China, measuring 175 centimeters high, 115 centimeters wide, and 46 centimeters deep. The oversized trolley caused quite a stir at the 100th Chinese Export Products Fair in Guangzhou, China.
- At the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre, seventy-four divers danced simultaneously for 10 minutes to set a world record for underwater dancing . The event was created to raise funds for charity.
- The record for the world's longest cigar , measuring approximately 81 metres in length, was made in Havana, Cuba, and was placed on tables and spread out at El Morro, an old Spanish fort overlooking Havana Bay, at the International Tourism Fair.
- Around 620 chefs threw their hats into the air in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of people throwing chef's hats at the Grand Place in Brussels.
- In Praça do Comercio, fifty thousand white candles were lit in the central square of Lisbon, setting a Guinness World Record . The candles were lit to raise funds for children suffering from terminal illnesses.
- In Sydney, Australia, 1,010 women in bikinis posed for a photo to set a Guinness World Record for the largest swimsuit photo .
- A Romanian woman wears a wedding dress with the world's longest veil during a Guinness World Record attempt in Bucharest. The dress and veil required 5,000 meters of taffeta, approximately 6 meters of lace, and 150 spools of thread, and took 100 days to create.
- During a baseball game in St. Paul, Minnesota, several people attempted to create the world's largest pillow fight . The record currently belongs to a group of 6,261 participants who threw pillows at each other.
- In 2014, a group of 261 hotel workers attempted to revive the tourism industry by breaking the Guinness World Record for the largest image of people floating in the Dead Sea.
- Runners dressed in inflatable Sumo costumes took part in a charity event in Battersea Park in London, running 5km, setting a new world record for a mass gathering dressed as Sumo wrestlers.