World's Biggest Fruit and Vegetables

For centuries people the world over have obsessed about growing the biggest and best of every fruit and vegetable variety possible. In these modern times, world records are held in higher regard than ever before with seeds from record specimens fetching thousands of dollars on Ebay.

268.8-pound watermelon grown by Lloyd Bright

Hope, Arkansas, is not only the town where Bill Clinton and Mike Huckabee got their start but also home of the world’s largest watermelons. The town’s first world-record melon was grown in 1935, and it held the prize for decades. After a brief sojourn in Tennessee, the record once again returned to Hope when Lloyd Bright grew a 268.8-pound behemoth in 2005.

Below are a few giant fruit and vegetable specimens that have broken records in recent times. These images and information sourced from this article by Raina Kelley on Newsweek.

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Amazing Biggest Disco Ball in the World

It might sound like a crazy idea, but Michael de Broin actually did it. Using a 7.5 meter disco-ball, featuring 1,000 mirror pieces, the artist managed to light up Paris on a winter night. He did so by hanging the giant disco-ball 50 meters up, using a giant crane, and projecting light onto it.

The ball was hung up in the Jardin de Luxumburg and the light effects that covered Paris were more than worth the effort of bulding the whole installation. plus now Michel de Broin could enter the record books for the World’s Largest Disco-Ball.

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World’s Biggest Mouth

Francisco Domingo Joaquim from Angola has the widest mouth in the world.
The lips and cheeks of this 20 year old were measured, at full stretch, to be 17 cm (6.69 in). Happy Halloween!