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Marathon runner Gladys, 92, sets marathon world record in Honolulu
Gladys Burrill has been named the oldest woman ever to finish a marathon, despite not even knowing she was eligible for the title when she entered the race. Nicknamed the Gladyator, 92-year-old Ms Burrill completed the Honolulu Marathon, in Hawaii, late last year in nine hours and 53 minutes...- cybercore
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Oldest woman in the world named as Besse Cooper, 114
Besse Cooper has officially been named as the oldest person in the world, having reached the ripe old age of 114. Guinness World Records officially named the great-great-grandmother as the person who has lived the longest, following the death of Eunice G Sanborn earlier this year. The...- cybercore
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Smallest man in the world in trouble with police for not using child seat
The world's smallest man Khagendra Thapa Magar has had a run in with police in Australia, who wanted to know why he was not travelling in a child's booster seat. At just 67cm high and weighing 5kg, Khagendra is around the size of a six-month-old baby. While on a trip to Oz to raise...- cybercore
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World's Oldest Wedding Cake
In 1898, when this cake was baked, Orville and Wilbur Wright were running a bicycle store, reading about birds and thinking how cool it would be to build a flying machine. Guinness World Records calls this 113-year-old Victorian era confection the "World's Oldest Cake." Hitler's bombs caused...- cybercore
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World's Fittest Man Sets 200th Record
If running a marathon sounds like a daunting feat, try covering 26 miles in freezing February weather through hills, mud and streams -- while carrying a 60-pound backpack. On Monday, that's just what Paddy Doyle, a former paratrooper and amateur boxer from Birmingham City, U.K., did to...- cybercore
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