Weird world records

Longest fingernails: Lee Redmond, who holds the record for the woman with the longest fingernails, shows her nails during Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Odditorium grand opening in Times Square in New York June 21, 2007. (REUTERS)
Largest fruit shortcake: Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo slices a giant strawberry shaped shortcake that won the Guiness World Record's record for the largest fruit shortcake during her visit to La Trinidad in Benguet Province north of Manila March 19, 2007. (REUTERS)
Largest mosaic made of corks: A man looks at the largest mosaic made of corks created by Albanian artist Saimir Strati in Tirana September 4, 2008. Strati glued 229,764 corks of various shapes and colours over a plastic banner measuring 12.94 metres by 7.1 metres to make the artpiece "Romeo with a crown of grapes playing the guitar while dancing with the sea and the sun". He worked 14 hours a day for 28 days. (REUTERS)
Greatest number of body piercings: Brazilian Elaine Davidson, who holds the Guinness world record for being the woman with the greatest number of body piercings - 1903 altogether - pokes her finger through her tongue at the Tate Modern art gallery in London, November 11, 2003. (REUTERS)
Completing 770 weeks of continuous screening: Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan (R) is seen in the movie screening of "Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge" inside Maratha Mandir theatre in Mumbai July 11, 2010. The movie has set a record of completing 770 weeks of continuous screening at a cinema, a feat unmatched by any other Bollywood movie the world over. The movie is screened only in the morning and has special ticket rates which range from $0.30 to $0.40 (15 to 20 Indian rupees). According to Maratha Mandir owner Manoj Desai, the movie, which is still being screened, enjoys at least 60 to 70 percent occupancy on weekdays and a full house on weekends at his theatre. (REUTERS)
Largest underwater painting: Alexandr Belozor paints on the bottom of the Black Sea near Yalta, during an attempt to create the largest underwater painting August 5, 2010. Belozor, 47, successfully created a 70 by 100 centimetres painting underwater while witnessed by a representative from Ukraine's national book of records. (REUTERS)
Highest number of riders on a single wave: South African surfers take to the water in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the highest number of riders on a single wave at Muizenberg in Cape Town, September 26, 2010. (REUTERS)
Largest handwritten Koran: Lebanese Shi'ite sheikh Hassan al-Zayyat marks punctuation on Koranic verses that he had hand copied on 100x70 cm (39x28 inch) pages in his village of Tayr Dibba, southern Lebanon, August 30, 2010, aspiring to enter the Guinness Book of World Records for the largest handwritten Koran. (REUTERS)
Largest omelette: Chefs cook an omelette during a Guinness World Records attempt for the world's largest omelette in Ankara October 8, 2010. The Turkish Egg Producers Association celebrated World Egg Day on Friday with an attempt to cook the world's largest omelette weighing 6 tonnes with a total of 432 litres of oil and 110,000 eggs used. (REUTERS)
Simultaneous chess game: Israeli grandmaster Alik Gershon (R) looks at a board during a simultaneous chess game at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv October 21, 2010. According to the organisers, Gershon played against 525 opponents on Thursday in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for simultaneous chess games, currently held by an Iranian. (REUTERS)
Most senior tattooed woman: Septuagenarian Isobel Varley poses during 'II Expotatoo' tattoo fair in Gijon, northern Spain, May 15, 2009. Varley, who was born in 1937, is the most senior tattooed woman in the world according to the Guinness World Records. (REUTERS)