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Guinness World Records Day Shatters Records

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See how world records were broken in this video on HowStuffWorks. From karate records, to the world's largest underwater dance class to the man with the most rattlesnakes held in his mouth, more than 100,000 people from around the world joined to help Guinness World Records break the largest number of world records ever. Watch this video from Medialink.

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