Celebrating Guinness World Records Day With Some of Our Favorite World Records

To commemorate the day, which also marked 60th anniversary of the Guinness World Records book, Guinness World Records brought together the world's tallest and shortest living men, Sultan Kösen and Chandra Bahadur Dangi.
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On Nov. 13 thousands of people across the globe celebrated the tenth annual Guinness World Records Day. The record-shattering took many forms as 600,000 Guinness World Records title hopefuls from the United States, China, Dubai, Australia, France, Great Britain, Japan and numerous other locales vied to get their names to the newest Guinness World Records book.

To commemorate the day, which also marked 60th anniversary of the Guinness World Records book, Guinness World Records brought together the world's tallest and shortest living men, Sultan Kösen and Chandra Bahadur Dangi. Kösen, a Turkish native, stands at 8'3″. Dangi, who hails from Nepal, is 21.5 inches. "To be able to finally meet Chandra after all this time is amazing," said Kösen when the pair met in London. "Even though he is short and I am tall, we have had similar struggles throughout our lives and when I look into Chandra's eyes, I can see he's a good man."

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