Video: The world's longest ever basketball shot

A number of other records were broken yesterday

Friday 15 November 2013 13:31 GMT

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How do you celebrate the ninth annual Guiness World Records Day?

Getting a load of people together dressed as penguins, walking on Champagne bottles and catching darts were just some of the records attempted - but perhaps the most impressive record set yesterday was a basketball shot from 109ft.

Check out all the records in the video above.

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