Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
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MOST people put up decorations and wrap up pressies to get in the Christmas spirit.
For others, it is all about huge puddings, megaexpensive trees, or attempting festive feats such as becoming the fastest at carving a turkey, eating an advent calendar, or putting together a yule log.
Here are 15 Christmas-themed world records yule be amazed by.
Guinness World Records 2020 is out now.
Susan Boyle
The Gift
November 20, 2010
More than 600,000 Subo’s second album became the first Christmas album to top the UK chart, going straight to No1 and turning double platinum in weeks. The album had the third-highest global sales of the year.
The Dubai Mall, UAE December 2018
15ft 4in (4.68m) in diameter.
American design company
Venue Arts custom built the huge orange and pink metallic bauble, which weighed in at 2,425lbs and took a team of 15 people two nights to assemble.
Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Centre, Kissimmee, Florida December 7, 2017 224 2017
Kevin Strahle New York December 4,
1 min 27 secs Competitive eater Kevin, known as LA Beast, took the record after opening each door of an advent calendar in order and eating them one by one.
Paul Kelly
Little Claydon Farm, Essex
June 3, 2009 52.84 seconds Paul, who already held the record for the fastest time to pluck three turkeys, went head to head against a local butcher to win the record at an event to celebrate the 25th anniversary of his turkey farm.
Set in the appropriatelynamed town of Kissimmee, all the couples who broke the record received a sprig of mistletoe to kiss beneath.
The villagers of Aughton, Lancs
Aughton. July 11, 1992
At 7,231lb 1oz, more than 3 metric tonnes, the pudding took villagers eight days to put together before the famous Aughton Pudding Festival.