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GHANA AFRICA<br />
GhanaNation News: From the human Popeye to the world's biggest horse: The weird and wacky entries in this year's<br />
Guinness Book of Records<br />
From the human Popeye to the world's biggest horse: The weird and wacky entries<br />
in this year's Guinness Book of Records<br />
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Staff on 13/09/2012 05:56:00<br />
By Daily Mail Reporter<br />
PUBLISHED: 18:18 EST, 12 September 2012 | UPDATED: 06:56 EST, 13 September 2012<br />
It's been a record-breaking summer thanks to the incredible efforts of our athletes. But even the likes of Mo Farah and Jessica<br />
Ennis would struggle to compete with some of the entries in the latest Guinness Book of World Records.<br />
Among the wacky wonders to find a place in the 2013 edition is Popeye lookalike Moustafa Ismail and his monstrous biceps,<br />
and a man with the tallest mohican hairstyle, measuring a towering 3ft 8in.<br />
It's not just humans either, with all creatures great and small snatching a few records — from a mighty Great Dane to a teeny<br />
bull.<br />
Biggest biceps: Popeye lookalike Moustafa Ismail, 24, from Massachusetts, has spent ten years pumping iron twice a day to<br />
get his 31in biceps. He eats lots of chicken rather than spinach - which he hates The 57th version of best-selling reference<br />
book also features new verified entries for the world's heaviest sportswoman and the most conquests of Mount Everest, as<br />
well as the tallest ever dog.<br />
Being published in 22 languages in more than 100 countries, the 2013 Guinness World Records is expected to sell around 2.7<br />
million copies and documents numerous new extremes relating to the human body.<br />
These include 86-year-old Johanna Quaas, a retired PE teacher from Leipzig, Germany, who is named the oldest gymnast;<br />
Egyptian-born Moustafa Ismail, recognised for having the largest 'guns' - biceps and triceps - with a circumference of 25.5in;<br />
and London-based sumo wrestler Sharran Alexander, who weighs 203.21 kg (32 stone), who was named the world's heaviest<br />
sportswoman. Bodybuilder Mr Ismail, now living in Franklin, Massachusetts, has arms with a greater circumference than the<br />
average human head.<br />
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Biggest horse: Big Jake, a nine-year-old Belgian gelding, from Winsconsin, U.S., tops 20 hands - or almost 7ft A 29-year-old<br />
bull called Archie, from County Antrim, Northern Ireland, measures just 30in from his hooves to his withers Tallest dog:<br />
Three-year-old Great Dane Zeus and his owner Denise Doorlag in Michigan. On his hind legs, he towers over her at 7ft 4in<br />
The 24-year-old, originally from Alexandria, Egypt, hopes his record-breaking status will be a springboard to become a<br />
professional body-builder. Among the new edition's animal-based records are new bests for the shortest bull and the tallest<br />
dog, a Great Dane measuring 44in from foot to withers.<br />
Archie, a 29-month-old Dexter breed bull owned by a County Armagh-based farm, measures just 76.2 cm (30in) from hoof to<br />
withers.<br />
Farmer's son Ryan Lavery, 15, bought Archie at five months old and admits that the bull's fate would have been different if he<br />
had been of a normal stature.<br />
Ryan said: 'When we bought Archie, he was destined for beef. However, by Christmas time, he still hadn't grown and<br />
because we had become so fond of him we decided to keep him.<br />
Heaviest female athlete: British sumo wrestler Sharran Alexander wolfed down a high calorie diet of takeaways and fried<br />
chicken to get into the record books at 32st<br />
(Left) Biggest Barbie collection: Blonde Barbie fan Bettina Dorfmann, 52, from Germany, has 15,000 dolls she's collected since<br />
1993 - they fill a room. (Right) Tallest mohican: Japanese designer Kazuhiro Watanabe’s spear-like hairdo peaks at more than<br />
3ft 8in, thanks to three cans of hairspray and a large bottle of gel<br />
Fastest sheep: Zippy Lambourghini, from a farm in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, won't bleat after winning 165 out of<br />
179 races<br />
Largest hotdog: Feeling peckish? This 7lb, 16in monster on sale in Chicago will set you back £24<br />
'His size saved his life and now he's going to live out the rest of his life as a pet. It's brilliant and amazing to have Archie in<br />
the new Guinness Worlds book.'<br />
Other records in the 57th edition of the book include the lowest roadworthy car - a vehicle created by students and teachers<br />
in Asakuchi, Japan, which measures 45.2cm (17.79in) from the ground to its highest part.<br />
The <strong>City</strong> <strong>Montessori</strong> <strong>School</strong> in Lucknow, India, also enters the new edition, with a record enrolment of 39,437 pupils for the<br />
2010-2011 academic year.<br />
VIDEO: REAL-LIFE POPEYE SAYS HE WILL NOW AIM FOR 30 INCH \'GUNS\'...<br />
VIDEO: HEAVIEST FEMALE SUMO WRESTLER, BIGGEST DOG, FASTEST SHEEP... THE BEST OF<br />
WORLD RECORD BREAKERS<br />
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