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I actually visited the Guinness World Record exhibition at the London Trocadero when I was 12. They had a lifesize statue of Robert Wodlaw, the tallest man who ever lived (8'11). There was a small spiral staircase where you could walk up and see it face to face and a handprint display where you could compare your own to his. That and the world's biggest weight loss exhibition are the only two things I can really remember. I will agree with other posters, I got a Ripley's photobook around the same time which was much more interesting. It had things like men lifting anvils with their ears, pulling nails out of wood with their teeth and a guy who could blow saliva bubbles on the end of his tongue full of cigarette smoke. Also a very old woman who grew a third set of teeth. There were some things in the Ripley's book that don't seem quite so strange today. Like the woman with a neck piercing which was a bar with two diamonds on the end. Transporting some guy with a diamond studded grill back to the 1920's would have made peoples head explode.
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