Guinness World Records Day: People all over the world will be trying to break a record

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Image caption, Well done Simeon for making over 400 juggling catches in one minute

It's Guinness World Record Day on Thursday 16 November and people all over the world will be attempting amazing feats to celebrate.

In China, someone's trying to make the longest journey on rollerskates.

Someone in Germany is attempting to spin the most hula-hoops simultaneously on multiple body parts鈥.

And two records are being attempted in France: furthest distance to throw a bullseye in darts & furthest distance to bounce a coin into a cup.

Lots of record have already been broken this year - the 2023 book features a huge cow, super-long hair and a kid from the UK with impressive juggling skills.

Let's take a look at some of the others!

Do you think you could break a record? Which record would you like to break? Let us know in the comments!

This year's winners

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Image caption, How many astronauts can you count here?

Do you think you could break a world record? Well nearly 30,000 people around the world think they could!

Lots of people submitted their applications to the Guinness Book of World records and this year 2,638 made it into the book.

Expert juggling

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Simeon is 15 years old, and earned himself a place in the book with his juggling catching skills.

He performed the most juggling catches in a minute.

He's been a keen juggler since he was 7 years old and says he wants to teach the next generation to become amazing jugglers too. Go Simeon!

Biggest afro

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Over in the USA, 14-year-old Amir grew his afro for four and a half years, and according to Guinness, it's now the largest ever.

His afro is nearly 20cm high, nearly 25cm wide, and 226cm all around.

And on the same theme - teenager with the longest hair

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Another guy who's been growing his hair out is Sidakdeep Chahal, in India, who's hair is 130cm long!

In the 2023 book, he's down as "longest hair on a teenager".

Huge cattle

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Next up is a steer - which is a type of male cattle - look how massive he is!

Tommy the steer is from Massachusetts in the USA, and he's over 6 feet tall.

Tommy eats around 45kg of food every single day.

Oldest ninja athlete

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71-year-old Ginny MacGoll has swung into the record book with her impressive skills in Ninja tournaments.

Ninja tournaments are fitness competitions that happen over a tough assault course - they usually involve leaping, pulling yourself up, running, and doing some huge jumps.

We bet Ginny can "beat the wall!"

What record do you think you could break? Let us know in the comments!