Amazing Canadian Guinness World Records!

Most surgical needle piercings in one session - The most surgical needle piercings in one session record stands at 4,745 in nine hours and 13 minutes, achieved by Matthew Menczyk and Russ Foxx (both Canadian) at Human Kanvas Tattoo & Piercing in Calgary on December 22, 2015.

This image shows Winnipegger Brent Moffatt attempting the record at an earlier date.

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Fastest crossing of Canada on foot - Canadian runner Ann Keane ran from St. John's, Newfoundland to Tofino, British Columbia in 143 days between April 17 and September 8, 2002. The total distance is 7,831 km and Keane ran for all but three of the days.

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Greatest distance run on a treadmill in 48 hours - Suresh Joachim Arulanantham is a Tamil-Canadian actor and producer who has broken more than 60 world records, including greatest distance run on a treadmill in 48 hours (386.41 km).

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Suresh Joachim Arulanantham - Suresh Joachim Arulanantham also set the record for the longest ten-pin bowling marathon, at 100 hours, in Toronto in June of 2005. The record is currently held by American Stephen Shanabrook (134 hours, 57 minutes).

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Most ushers for a groom - Arulanantham also holds the record for most ushers for a groom (47 at his wedding to wife Christa Rasanayagam in Mississauga in 2003).

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Largest wedding bouquet - Christa Rasanayagam is no stranger to world records either. She had the world's largest wedding bouquet at 60.09 m long. It contained 1,500 flowers, including roses and carnations.

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World's longest fruit snack - Canadian children tasted an edible Guinness World Record in the form of the world's longest fruit snack. The 91.44 m fruit snack, created by Sun-Rype Products Ltd, was unrolled and measured along the length of a football field in Kelowna, British Columbia in 2011.

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Most Winter Olympics ice hockey gold medals - The most gold medals won in men's ice hockey by an Olympic team is nine. Canada matched the USSR's record of eight at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, and then claimed the world record in Sochi in 2014.

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Longest-running sports TV program - 'Hockey Night in Canada' began on CRBC (renamed CBC) radio in 1933 before debuting on television on October 11, 1952 to cover the first televised NHL match. Since then, the show has aired every Saturday night during the regular hockey season with annual coverage of All-Star weekend, the playoffs, and the Stanley Cup Finals. Despite a break during the cancelled NHL season of 2004-05, the show resumed on October 8, 2005, with host Ron MacLean.

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Heaviest aircraft pulled - Kevin Fast holds the record for heaviest aircraft pulled (male). He pulled a CC-177 Globemaster III, weighing 188.83 tonnes, a distance of 8.8 m in Trenton, Ontario on September 17, 2009.

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Heaviest vehicle pulled with an arm wrestling move - Kevin Fast also holds the record for heaviest vehicle pulled with an arm wrestling move (held twice), at 10,540 kg. Fast is a Lutheran pastor in Cobourg, Ontario.

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Furious Pete - Pete "Furious Pete" Czerwinski is from Toronto and has participated in more than 90 eating competitions.

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Fastest time to eat a raw onion - Furious Pete holds 14 Guinness World Records in competitive eating, including one for eating a raw onion in 43.53 seconds.

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Fastest time to eat a 12-inch pizza - He also holds the record for eating a 12-inch pizza, which he did in 41.31 seconds.

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The world's largest scavenger hunt - As part of Canada’s 150th anniversary in 2017, Escape Manor Inc. created the world's largest scavenger hunt. The Ottawa-based program partnered with Ignite 150 to produce a Canadian-themed excursion for 2,732 individuals. Participants had to undergo a series of 150 challenges.

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Most use of the poo emoji - In April 2015, British developer SwitchKey confirmed to Guinness World Records that Canada is the country that uses the poo emoji the most. Aren't you proud?

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Lowest consumption of cigarettes per capita - But Guinness World Records also confirms that Canadians smoke less, per capita, than any other country. Only 17% of Canadians have a cigarette each day. That's one to really be proud of.

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Failures - Canada isn't always a record-breaker. Volunteers failed an attempt to break the World Twister record for largest game at the Rogers Centre in Toronto in 2007.

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Largest robot dance - Students took part in "Robot Rock" at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia in 2010. They were part of a group trying to break the Guinness World Record for number of people dancing like robots.

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Largest robot dance - Some took it a little more seriously than others. The title belongs to the National Association of College and University Residence Halls (USA).

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Most people inside a bubble - Bubble artist Fan Yang set a new record of 181 people inside a bubble at Science World in Vancouver on September 19, 2012.

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Most people inside a bubble - But the record has since been surpassed by Lyudmila Darina, who enclosed 374 people inside a bubble in Omsk, Russia on March 2, 2017.

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The longest beard - Sarwan Singh has the world's longest beard. It was 2.495 m when measured in Surrey, British Columbia on September 8, 2011.

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The longest beard - Singh told reporters: “Without my beard, I’m not me. I’m pretending to be someone I’m not.”

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Sweet Pepper Klopek - Klopek also holds the titles for heaviest weight lifted using a hook through the forehead, at 4.5 kg and the most animal traps released on the body in one minute (20).

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Sweet Pepper Klopek - In 2015, Sweet Pepper Klopek took the record for the most mouse traps released on the tongue in one minute (58) in Saint John, New Brunswick.

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