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Tallest man unveils largest gingerbread cookie
8-foot-1-inch Turk displays 1,435-pound gingerbread man in Norway
 AP Sultan Kosen, the world's tallest man, unveils a 1,435-pound gingerbread man cokie at an Ikea store in Oslo on Thursday. |
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OSLO - The world's tallest living man has unveiled the world's largest gingerbread man at an Ikea outlet in Norway's capital, Oslo.
Guinness Book of World Records spokeswoman Justine Bourdariat says 8-foot-1-inch Sultan Koesen of Turkey displayed the 1,435-pound biscuit.
Baked locally in the traditional gingerbread-man shape, it beat the previous gingerbread cookie record of 1,307 pounds set in 2006 in Smithville, Texas.
Ikea spokesman Jan Thommesen says Guinness Book of World Records representative Kelly Gerret awarded the furniture store a world record diploma Thursday as part of the publication's World Records Day.
Koesen was declared the tallest living man by the Guinness Book of World Records in September.
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