The Guinness Book of Records is the repository of some pretty arcane (some might add "inane") stuff. Here are a few entries plucked from the pages of the latest edition, published on Friday: Australian Graham Barker holds the record for collecting belly-button lint. He has preserved and catalogued the entire 15.41 grams of lint removed from his navel since 1984. Then there's Briton Paul Hunn, who went into the book for the loudest burp ever recorded. At 118.1 decibels, Hunn's belch equalled the noise of a plane taking off. Finally, there's Vic Gallucci, who holds the record for most appearances as a television extra. Gallucci has appeared as Detective Constable Tom Baker on a British TV drama 819 times since 1989 -- and has never spoken a line.
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The Guinness Book of Records is the repository of some pretty arcane (some might add "inane") stuff. Here are a few entries plucked from the pages of the latest edition, published on Friday: Australian Graham Barker holds the record for collecting belly-button lint. He has preserved and catalogued the entire 15.41 grams of lint removed from his navel since 1984. Then there's Briton Paul Hunn, who went into the book for the loudest burp ever recorded. At 118.1 decibels, Hunn's belch equalled the noise of a plane taking off. Finally, there's Vic Gallucci, who holds the record for most appearances as a television extra. Gallucci has appeared as Detective Constable Tom Baker on a British TV drama 819 times since 1989 -- and has never spoken a line.
