OSLO (AP) - The world's tallest man has unveiled what's touted
as the world's largest gingerbread man at an Ikea store in the
Norwegian capital.
     
The Swedish furniture chain's Oslo outlet says 8-foot-1-inch
tall Sultan Koesen of Turkey presented the cookie that weighs 1,435
pounds. It was baked in the traditional gingerbread man shape by a
local bakery and beat the previous 2006 world cookie record of
1,307 pounds set in Smithville, Texas.
     
Ikea spokesman Jan Thommesen says Guinness World Records
representative Kelly Gerret on Thursday presented a diploma for the
world record to the furniture store as part of the publication's
international Records Day.
     
Koesen in September was declared the world's tallest man by
Guinness World Records.
     
     
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