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Who doesn't love a good pub crawl? The camaraderie and the drinking are two selling points that many people are loathe to refuse, though the possibility of breaking a world record should be enough to convince any hesitant participants. The city of Maryborough in Queensland, Australia has just completed the world's largest pub crawl, a feat confirmed by the Guinness Book of World Records. About 2,000 of the city's 26,000 residents participated in the crawl, which required that they visit at least 10 pubs in under six hours and down at least one drink in each pub for a stamp on their official card. The drinks did not have to be alcoholic, but it's a safe bet that the majority of the over 19,000 drinks downed were beer or another alcoholic libation. Of all the participants, only 1198 official cards were collected by the city to confirm the record. A city official said that some of the more "confused" participants may have forgotten to turn theirs in. The city will attempt to break their own record when they host another crawl on June 11th, 2006.

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