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Filipino workers tie the shoelace of a giant shoe, said to be the world's largest, in preparation for its unveiling in Marikina city, on October 21, 2002. Bomb blasts in the Philippines appear to have shooed off representatives from the Guinness Book of World Records who had been due in the country to size up the jumbo footwear. Photo by Romeo Ranoco/Reuters