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Here is a nice event for Halloween. At 6:00 PM on Sat. Oct. 27, 2007, in Toronto, Canada and simultaneously around the world, there will be an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the Largest Simultaneous Dance. Of course, being Halloween, the dance routine has to be the famous Michael Jackson's 'Thriller', which appropriately celebrates its 25th anniversary this year; doesn't time fly when your a Zombie.

Thousands of people in cities around the world are learning the 'Thriller' dance and if your not already involved, you can check out a participating event near you by going to the Thrill The World website.

The current record is 197,569 young students doing the Hokey-Pokey at 681 locations across Canada in April 2002.

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I have just watched South Africa beat Argentina in the Rugby World Cup semi-final to join England in the final and I guess that they started as favourites to win but I have just learned of a South African success that probably wasn't foreseen; a group of South African farmers have just beaten the Americans at their own culinary delicacy, winning the Guinness World Record for the biggest pumpkin pie ever made. The previous American record weighed in at 920 kg and the new record is a salivating, 1150 kg.

Over a ton of pumpkins was used to make the world record breaking pumpkin pie, which is to be distributed among the poor. More yummy information about the pie.

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Fall is an important tourist season in the USA,. To consider how important, consider that nearly 8 million visitors are expected to visit the state of New Hampshire alone, enjoying nature's annual color spectacular and of course, buying their Halloween pumpkins. There is a Pumpkin Carving Festival in neighbouring Vermont, which includes a world record attempt for the Most Pumpkins Being Carved Simultaneously.

I doubt they will be carving anything like the 3,000 pumpkins used at Van Cortlandt Manor, Croton-On-Hudson, NY, where Halloween is celebrated with the Great Jack O' Lantern Blaze in October. Artfully carved Jack O'Lanterns are arranged in different scenarios, including a bottom-of-the-sea aquarium and a scarecrow avalanche.

Just a 10 minutes drive south, in Sleepy Hollow, they celebrate Halloween with the tale of the headless horseman who rode through the grounds of Philipsburg Manor in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, written by Washington Irving.

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