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Jeison Orlando Rodriguez Hernandez: largest feet on a living person (pictured with his nephew)Photograph: Gil Montano/Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records 2016From the fastest tortoise in the West to the woman with 2,042 gnomes, meet the host of glorious eccentrics who have had their peculiar talents added to Guinness World Records

Li Longlong: most consecutive stairs climbed on the headPhotograph: Paul Michael Hughes/Guinness World Records

Takeru Kobayashi: most hamburgers eaten in three minutesPhotograph: Paul Michael Hughes/Guinness World Records

Daring Doris Long, from Hayling Island, is the oldest abseiler she took up the sport at 85 and marked her 100th birthday by bouncing down Portsmouths 94m Spinnaker Tower. This year, at 101, she broke her own record and hopes to repeat the feat at the tower in 2016

Peter Glazebrook's mighty cauliflower could feed a family of four for a month, weighing in at a hefty 27.48kg, or 60lb 9.3 oz, and with a leaf-span of 6ft

Andre Ortolf, 21, from Augsburg, Germany - Fastest 100m in clogsPicture: Richard Bradbury/Guinness World Records

Mahadeo Bhujbal - Most Tennis Balls In The HandPicture: Ranald Mackechnie/Guinness World Records

Bob Wade, 72, from Texas, USA, who features in the Guinness World Records 2016 for creating the largest cowboy boot sculpture.

Kalawelo Kaiwi - Largest flesh tunnel (earlobe)Picture: Walter Succu/Guinness World Records

Blosom - Tallest CowPicture: Kevin Scott Ramos/Guinness World Records

Oliver Struempfel - Most beer steins carried over 40 mPicture: Paul Michael Hughes/Guinness World Records

Kim Goodman - Farthest Eyeball PopPicture: Paul Michael Hughes/Guinness World Records

Franchesca: longest fur on a rabbit (pictured with owner Betty Chu)Photograph: James Ellerker/Guinness World Records

Bharat Sinh Parmar: longest motorcyclePhotograph: Ranald Mackechnie/Guinness World Records

Linsey Lindberg: most telephone directories torn in one minutePhotograph: Ryan Schude/Guinness World Records

Marcus Daily: largest hot dog cartPhotograph: Kevin Scott Ramos/Guinness World Records

Joel Miggler - Most Flesh Tunnels In The FacePicture: Cristian Barnett/Guinness World Records

Purin - Most Balls Caught By A Dog By The PawsPicture: Shinsuke Kamioka/Guinness World Records

Alberto Busnari: most Thomas flairs on a pommel horse in one minute.Photograph: Paul Michael Hughes/Guinness World Records

Amateur gardener Peter Glazebrook, 69, from Newark, Nottinghamshire, holds the record for the heaviest carrot (above) which made up in weight what it lacked in beauty tipping the scales at 20lb 1 oz

The first people to row the navigable length of the Amazon River, Briton Anton Wright, left, and Dutch-born Mark de Rond, took just 32 days to cover 2,077 treacherous miles in often hostile conditions

Acharya Makunuri Srinivasa - Largest Ballpoint PenPicture: Ranald Mackechnie/Guinness World Records

Big Red 907, a Texas Longhorn - Largest Horn Spread on a Domestic Living SteerPicture: Guinness World Records

Olga Liashchuk: fastest time to crush three watermelons with the thighsPhotograph: Paul Michael Hughes/Guinness World Records

Devon artist Ann Atkin, 78, has a staggering 2,042 gnomes in her four-acre garden.

Bertie: fastest tortoisePhotograph: Paul Michael Hughes/Guinness World Records

Dinesh Upadhyaya - Most grapes stuffed in the mouth in a minutePicture: Ranald Mackechnie/Guinness World Records

Jagathish: longest side-wheelie, auto-rickshawPhotograph: Ranald Mackechnie/Guinness World Records

Takeru Kobayashi - Most hot dogs eaten in 3 minutesPicture: Paul Michael Hughes/Guinness World Records

Marawa Ibrahim - Most Hula Hoops Spun SimultaneouslyPicture: Paul Michael Hughes/Guinness World Records

Takahiro Ikeda, 21, from Tokyo, Japan holds the record for the most BMX 'time machine' tricks in one minute. Ikeda, a professional BMX rider, managed 83 time machines in one minute

Gerhard Donie - Most Human Targets Hit With PlungersPicture: Paul Michael Hughes/GWR

John Evans, 70, faces little competition in the 33 weight-bearing categories for which he repeatedly sets records. Honoured here for heaviest car balanced on the head (a gutted 352 lb Mini for 33 seconds), the one-eyed diabetic who avoids the gym explains: Ive got strong legs and a strong neck

Tameru Zegeye: fastest 100m on crutchesPhotograph: Richard Bradbury/Guinness World Records

Vijay Kumar: most teeth in a mouthPhotograph: Ranald Mackechnie/Guinness World Records

Sun Mingming and Xu Yan: tallest married couplePhotograph: Paul Michael Hughes/Guinness World Records

Dominic Lacasse: most chinups in the human flag positionPhotograph: Paul Michael Hughes/Guinness World Records

Andre Ortolf, 21, from Augsburg, Germany, features in the 2016 edition for three world records including the fastest 100m in clogs (16.27 seconds), fastest 100m wearing ski boots (17.65 seconds) and farthest distance to blow a pea (7.51 m (24 ft 7.66 in)

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