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Guinness World Records Day: Giant horse, oldest couple and other record-breaking retro finds

These record-breaking stories from the past highlight giant animals, roller coasters and devoted couples.
Eric Jones
Eric Jones
Guinness World Records Day: Giant horse, oldest couple and other record-breaking retro finds

These record-breaking stories from the past highlight giant animals, roller coasters and devoted couples.

This is Radar and he's huge. This is *** Belgian draft horse. He's 19 hands, 3.5 inches tall. That's 6 ft seven at the Withers. Withers are right here at the, at the tallest point of his back hook on the head in this humongous hunk of horse flesh that tips the scales at £2600 tops out at better than 8 ft tall. He's about 10 ft nose tail. According to the Guinness Book of World Records. Radar wears *** size nine. Most horses wear *** zero to *** one. He's the world's tallest living horse. He was certified the latter part of 2005 and radar eats like what else? *** horse, £18 of grain, £40 of hay and 20 to 30 gallons of water *** day. Well, it was *** great idea for promotion. We like to do things. Time to time to bring people in. Radar is owned by pret ranch equipment. It can be seen Thursday only from 1230 to 630 at the Knoxville farm and home store. People used them to farm with out here in Iowa back in the old days before tractors. He is. As I tell folks been promoted from labor to Belgian draft horses worked hard. All right, here we go. Radar. Has it pretty easy now, how y'all doing down there? Except for occasionally having to haul around. *** talkative reporter, totally lacking in horse sense. *** long way down in Knoxville, Steve Carlin CCC I News Channel eight, Iowa's news leader.
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Guinness World Records Day: Giant horse, oldest couple and other record-breaking retro finds

These record-breaking stories from the past highlight giant animals, roller coasters and devoted couples.
Eric Jones
Eric Jones
Passionate people everywhere have been trying to set records ever since the first Guinness Book of World Records was published in 1954. From the common to the esoteric, there is a record for almost everything.Take, for example, the video above. It shows you Radar, who in 2007 was the world’s tallest living horse. The Belgian draft horse was more than 8 feet tall and weighed 2,600 pounds. Watch the video to find out how much food this gargantuan beast ate in a day. It will blow your mind.Here are a few other record-breaking retro finds to help celebrate Guinness World Records Day!RETRO FIND: Video game wizard set world record after 16-hour marathonTodd Bucher spent 16 hours in 1983 standing in front of a Stargate arcade machine, foregoing food and bathroom breaks to achieve the world record high score. Watch the video to see how many points it too.RETRO FIND: World’s oldest couple was together longer than most people liveFor a time in 2002, William and Claudia Ritchie were the world’s oldest couple. They had been married for 83 years! Will said, “Most people die before they reach that point.” Watch to hear their secret to a lasting marriage.RETRO FIND: Man set world record by riding roller coaster thousands of timesDon Helbig was such a fan of The Racer, a roller coaster at Kings Island amusement park; he broke the world record for riding it multiple times! This video from 1987 captured the moment he set the record for the second time.

Passionate people everywhere have been trying to set records ever since the first Guinness Book of World Records was published in 1954. From the common to the esoteric, there is a record for almost everything.

Take, for example, the video above. It shows you Radar, who in 2007 was the world’s tallest living horse. The Belgian draft horse was more than 8 feet tall and weighed 2,600 pounds. Watch the video to find out how much food this gargantuan beast ate in a day. It will blow your mind.

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Here are a few other record-breaking retro finds to help celebrate Guinness World Records Day!

RETRO FIND: Video game wizard set world record after 16-hour marathon

Todd Bucher spent 16 hours in 1983 standing in front of a Stargate arcade machine, foregoing food and bathroom breaks to achieve the world record high score. Watch the video to see how many points it too.

RETRO FIND: World’s oldest couple was together longer than most people live

For a time in 2002, William and Claudia Ritchie were the world’s oldest couple. They had been married for 83 years! Will said, “Most people die before they reach that point.” Watch to hear their secret to a lasting marriage.

RETRO FIND: Man set world record by riding roller coaster thousands of times

Don Helbig was such a fan of The Racer, a roller coaster at Kings Island amusement park; he broke the world record for riding it multiple times! This video from 1987 captured the moment he set the record for the second time.

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