Thousands of Parisians gathered for a smooch on Thursday to try to break the world kissing record, but they weren't able to do so. On a day devoted to worldwide record breaking, just 1,188 kissers showed up in Paris in an attempt to break the Budapest's 2005 world record for 11,570 people kissing in one spot at one moment, according to the Guinness World Records officials.

The event took place at La Defense, a modernist business park on the west edge of Paris.

Other weird and wacky events were staged in countries spanning from America to Asia including, South Africa's largest ever aqua aerobic class, the largest tea party in Japan and American Jackie Bibby trying to hold nine live rattlesnakes in his mouth at the same time.