If Guinness World Records ever creates a category for the country most obsessed with records, Mexico will surety be in the running.

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IF GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS ever creates a category for the country most obsessed with records, Mexico will surety be in the running. Clockwise from top left: On August 29, which would have been Michael Jackson's 51st birthday, thousands of people gathered in Mexico City to dance to "Thriller." Led by a Jackson impersonator named Hector Jackson, 13,597 people participated-handily beating the previous record of 242 set in May at the Cortege of William & Mary in Virginia. "This positions us as a grand city where grand things happen," says Alejandro Rojas Diaz, Mexico City's tourism...

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