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An Indian woman has set her sights and taste buds on breaking the Guinness record for eating the most hot peppers. And not just any hot peppers. Anandita Dutta Tamuly plans to eat as many Bhut Jolokia, or ghost chilis, as she can.

Tamuly hails from the state of Assam, where the pepper occurs as a natural hybrid. She seems pretty confident that she can scarf a record-smashing amount of what Guinness recently named the world's hottest chili pepper. On Indian television she recently chowed down on 60 of the fiery peppers in two minutes. Tamuly became a fan of the ghost chili when her mother smeared some chili paste on her tongue to cure a childhood infection.

The current record is held by Anita Crafford who consumed eight peppers in a minute. They weren't ghost peppers though, far from it. They were jalapeños, which are about one one-hundreth as hot as the dreaded Bhut Jolokia. Sheesh, what a wimp!

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Look out Victoria, Australia. The state of Colima, Mexico, has you in its sights. No, they're not looking to attack. Colima wants to beat Victoria's Guinness Record for the world's largest limeade.

Victoria's limeade clocked in at 2,500 liters. Colima is shooting for more than 3,500 liters of Mexican style limeade. It is worth noting that I am becoming thirsty as I write this. In order to prepare the gargantuan thirst quencher, 330 liters of Colima limes will be freshly cut and squeezed before an audience. The juice will then be combined with 56 liters of natural sweeetener and more than 3,000 liters of water.

The drink will be prepared in a plastic container measuring 1.46 meters in diameter and 2.46 meters tall. No word yet as to whether David Blaine plans to submerge himself in the vat of refreshing citrus beverage.

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