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A mile of pizza?! Chefs break world record


Sixty chefs just joined the mile-pizza club.

Italian pizza makers spent all night at Milan's world fair, Expo 2015, Saturday, creating a cheesy, sauce-y, record-breaking pizza, according to the Associated Press.

The occasion: The margherita pizza's 126th birthday. (How did you celebrate, eh?)

Using 1.5 tons of mozzarella and 2 tons of tomato sauce, the five-ton pizza measured in at 1.59545 kilometers — almost a full mile long — shattering the Guinness World Record and officially becoming the world's longest pizza.

The AP reports that people who attended the event got to try a hot, savory slice of history. The Italian creation (which surpassed the previous 1.1415 km. record from Spain) certainly does American pizza shame — although, let's be honest, it doesn't have a hot dog crust.

The world's longest pizza was not the only quirky Guinness World Record set on Saturday. In Huntington Beach, Calif., 66 surfers rode a wave in the Pacific on a 42-foot surfboard, breaking the record for the most people to ever ride on a surfboard.

Bet they would have demolished the pizza.

(P.S.: Sorry, Rory Gilmore.)