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The annual Salon du Chocolat is the peak show for the world's serious confectioners, but from the looks of this video the sugar goes to everybody's heads.This year's show being held in Paris seemed to bring out more than usual excess, with chocolate sculptures, chocolate jewelry and even chocolate fashion -- just don't get too hot on the dance floor in some of these outfits.But the highlight of the show was a Twizy city car from French brand Renault, covered in macaroons. Renault designed the showstopping car project with famed Parisian chef Pierre Herme, known as the 'Picasso of Pastry'. Herme's team took two days to attach 1700 macaroons in a range of flavours to the Twizy's body and wheels. It's not the first vehicle venture for Herme, who created a solid chocolate Renault Clio for the recent Paris motor show. 

   

   

The team of 28 gym members squashed and squeezed their way into a 2012 Mini Hatch yesterday in London, UK, to make it into the Guinness World Records.Getting four people just into the boot space of the Min, they went on to use every available pocket of room in the car, including folding bodies into the footwells and across the dashboard.The successful bid broke the record they set last year with 27 people, but that wasn’t enough for the women.After unfolding from the Mini Hatch – and gulping a few mouthfuls of fresher air – they hightailed it for a television studio, where 23 of them set a second record for the number of people in a much smaller classic Mini from the 1960s.The stunts were part of the eighth annual Guinness World Records Day, which saw 4000 people around the world try to make it into the record book.Australia was represented by 15-year-old Lachlan Phelps from Scone, NSW, who set the record for the longest note blown on a didgeridoo -- without using the continuous circular breathing technique – blasting past the previous 60 second record with a 65.66-sec note.