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The world’s largest plate of nachos was presented at an event called ‘Noche of Nachos’, organised with the city of La Cruces and New Mexico Department of Agriculture. A 2,282kg (5,030 lb) plate of tortilla chips, spiced up with lotte cheese, minced meat, vegetables and salsa sauce was served up to locals. 200 portions were donated to a local homeless charity.
Ciudad Juarez resident Manuel Garcia Hernandez claims to be the world’s oldest man at the ripe old age of 121, taking care of his chickens every day and never missing a chance to be active.
A literal army of snowmen, 2,018 to be exact, greeted residents of the Chinese city of Harbin on Thursday at the Qunli Bund theme park to ring in the New Year. Some 424,000 cubic feet of snow were reportedly used in making the sculptures. The exhibition is set to bid for the Guinness World Record for the greatest number of snowmen in a park.
101-year old Russian war veteran Nadezhda Myagkikh has a surprising nickname. Even though members of the elderly generation usually don't take too kindly to computers, locals call Nadia the 'Grandma-Hacker' because her love of surfing the Internet. The craziest thing about this tech savvy grandma is that she was around when electricity was first introduced in her village during the Russian empire. Now 101-year-old Nadia watches movies, Skypes with friends and family, and listens to music online.
Staying fit is a challenge at any age, but 103-year-old Mieko Nagaoka continues to swim laps well past her century mark. In fact, the Japanese world record swimmer is training twice a week with her son Hiroyuki Nagaoka at the Yanai Swimming school in Japan's Yamaguchi prefecture, for another major competition. Her body is not failing her, in fact, she is only getting stronger and quicker in preparation for when her speed in the water will be measured against the clock.
This is Maximo Gomez Hernandez, a Nicaraguan man who claims to be 117 years old. Maximo's Nicaraguan ID reports his date of birth as May 7, 1900, giving the elderly man claim to the title of world's oldest living man. If his birth date is confirmed, it would make him three years older than Yisrael Kristal, born 15 September 1903, currently named by the Guinness World Records as the world's oldest living male.
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