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Home » Guinness Book of World Records

Tag: Guinness Book of World Records

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Local duo Tinkerbelles will try to play 40 sets in ten days across seven states

by Luca Cimarusti May 28, 2015August 18, 2021

They’ll give Guinness a shot in June.

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Feel-good news is made near Ferguson!

by Michael Miner October 1, 2014August 18, 2021

All the news out of Saint Louis isn’t bad

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Free Groucho Marx glasses (and Duck Soup screening)

by Nicholas Teddy July 21, 2009August 19, 2021

The Chicago Outdoor Film Festival is hoping to break the Guinness World Record for “the most people wearing Groucho Marx glasses” at tonight’s free screening of Duck Soup in Grant Park’s Butler Field. (The current record is 4,077, for an event organized by the Leukemia and Lymphoma society of Springfield, Missouri.) The movie will start […]

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