People will do some pretty crazy things to get in the record books.
Though some world record-holders are physical anomalies — like the world's tallest person, or the shortest — the Guinness Book of World Records is filled with some incredibly strange attempts.
There's the people who set a record for brewing the largest cup or cappuccino, for example, and the couple who broke a record by kissing for a really long time.
Sometimes, breaking a world record is just a matter of showing up in your swimsuit.
In honor of these odd achievements, here are the 27 weirdest records broken by people around the world.
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1,010 bikini-clad women posed on an Australia beach, setting a Guinness World Record for the largest swimsuit photo shoot.
Hassan al-Zayyat shows off Quranic verses that he had copied by hand on 39- by 28-inch paper, aspiring to enter the Guinness Book of World Records for the largest handwritten Quran.
In their attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the "Biggest Barbecue in the World," about 30,000 people grilled 13,713 kilos of beef.
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