Missouri museum achieves world record for largest gathering of people with underwear on their heads

A museum in Missouri not too long ago broke a Guinness World Record for internet hosting the world’s largest gathering of people with underwear on their head. 

The City Museum in St. Louis, Missouri, wished to commemorate “314 Day” this 12 months with aptitude. 

As a nod to its city’s space code, 314, the museum hosted an occasion on March 14 and determined to shoot for the celebs by making an attempt to attain yet one more Guinness World Record title. 

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The museum, recognized for being a “quirky, artist-built playground,” set out to usher in 314 people to collect and put on underwear on their heads for one minute, as Katy Enrique, director of gross sales and advertising on the museum, advised Fox News Digital. 

Before this try, the museum already held 4 different Guinness World Records: World’s Largest Pencil at 76 toes lengthy, World’s Largest Seesaw at 82 toes lengthy, World’s Largest Tennis Racket and World’s Tallest Man. 

“City Museum also touts that it owns the World’s Largest Pair of Underwear, which famously hangs in our Beatnik Bob’s Café,” she added, noting the place the inspiration for this new world record try originated. 

“The giant underwear is an icon that guests try to find on their journey, and they take tons of photos with the underwear,” she mentioned.

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Guinness World Records famous that the enormous underwear on show on the museum was created in 1996 by St. Louis-based artists Pat Eby and Ann Paidrick — that it has a 16-foot waistband. 

The underpants should not formally the world’s largest, nevertheless — as that Guinness World Record title is presently held by Cottonil in Egypt with an 82-foot waistband. 

The museum was additionally internet hosting a touring exhibit known as the “Science of Guinness World Records” earlier this 12 months. It explored “the science behind how people achieve these Guinness World Records,” Enrique defined. 

Sure sufficient, on March 14, the museum did formally obtain one other Guinness World Record title for internet hosting the world’s largest gathering of people with underwear on their heads with 355 contributors on the distinctive occasion. 

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With a motto of encouraging people to “explore, crawl, slide, climb on, swing on and simply get lost in the museum,” Enrique mentioned this Guinness World Record try was proper up their alley. 

“We take great joy in that achievement and proudly display the 355 pairs of underwear in Beatnik Bob’s right next to the giant underwear that sparked the idea,” she mentioned.  

After opening in 1997, the City Museum has turned from a ardour undertaking to a spot for adventure-seekers with indoor, out of doors and underground playgrounds. 

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Housed in an outdated shoe manufacturing unit, the St. Louis museum is discovering methods to contain and have interaction the group by means of year-round occasions corresponding to City Nights, July Fest, the International Craft Beer Festival, Fright on the Museum and rather more. 

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With Memorial Day weekend simply up forward, the museum is “saying THANK YOU to those who have served, or are currently serving, in the military. [On] Memorial Day Weekend — Friday, May 24 through Monday, May 27 — all active and retired service members get in FREE,” the museum notes on its web site (citymuseum.org).

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