![]() ![]() Largest Audience at a Camel Wrestling Festival ‘Most party balloons released simultaneously’ has also been discontinued for that reason (but unfortunately not before Cleveland’s disastrous Balloonfest of 1986). Guinness has since discontinued the category so as not to inspire people to partake in activities that could damage the environment. Participants also clinched the Guinness World Record for most sky lanterns flown simultaneously: 15,185. In May 2013, the Middle Way Meditation Institute organized a mass release of sky lanterns in Iloilo City, Philippines, to promote world peace. Most Sky Lanterns Released Simultaneously Twelve years later, the Guinness team ended the practice of awarding records for heaviest pets, cats included, because they didn’t want to encourage people to overfeed their animals. His owner, Thomas Vyse of Australia, used to cart him around via wheelbarrow. The heaviest cat ever bestowed with a Guinness World Record (well, posthumously) was 10-year-old Himmy, who tipped the scales at 46 pounds, 15.5 ounces when he died in March 1986. In 1969, 23-year-old Jack Keyes of Northern Ireland downed 36 pints of beer-576 U.S. But even if Guinness still had that record, you wouldn’t qualify for it. If you knock back 200 fluid ounces of beer in an hour next weekend (please do not), don’t expect a Guinness World Record. Perhaps unsurprisingly, records that entailed guzzling massive amounts of alcohol died with the other gluttony categories. Olivier Blondeau/iStock via Getty Images Guinness declines to monitor such gluttony records to this day, but there are still a number of speed-eating records you can try to beat, like “fastest time to eat three cream crackers.” The specified time frames and/or amounts of food are kept small enough that they generally don’t pose serious health risks. “We now regard these records as unhealthy and outmoded, in the light of growing concerns about health issues worldwide,” Guinness editor Donald McFarlan told the Associated Press at the time. That year, however, the organization announced that it would henceforth be cutting that category, along with more than 40 other “gluttony records” involving consumption of eels, pancakes, spaghetti, and more. Ketzler’s record was apparently never broken, as he was included in Guinness books until the 1990 edition, published in 1989. ![]() ![]() In 1880, according to Guinness’s 1955 edition, Germany’s Johann Ketzler ate “one whole roast ox” in 42 days-reportedly the fastest time ever. You have to either donate it or divvy it up “for general consumption by humans.” Since you can’t do that after a traditional pie fight, Guinness has updated the category to “largest shaving cream pie fight.” The current record, set in 2016 at UK arts festival Another Fine Fest, involved 1180 people. These days, Guinness has pretty strict policies against food waste for record attempts that require large amounts of anything edible. A total of 434 staff members hit each other with 1200 chocolate, apple, and cherry pies “to demonstrate the stain resistance of a premium nylon carpet.” Guinness’s 2011 edition recognized flooring company Shaw Floors as organizer of the largest pie fight ever, which took place at a sales conference in Texas on January 7, 2010.
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