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A man who propelled a coin more than three metres with his earlobe is among the entries in the new Guinness Book of World Records.

Monte Pierce is capable of pulling the lobes up over his eyes or under his chin, as well as transforming them into slingshots.

More than 1,000 other records make their debut in the 2002 edition.

They include a man who's eaten17,500 Big Macs.

Donald A Gorske's fast-food fetish has seen him eat an average of two every day since his first Big Mac in 1972.

Australian Graham Barker is in the book for collating the world's biggest stash of belly-button fluff.

The fluff has been perfectly preserved and catalogued in a series of jars ready for his ultimate aim - to stuff a pillow with the residues. Meanwhile, retired rat-catcher Ken Edwards from Derbyshire, has made his way into the new edition, by consuming 36 medium-sized cockroaches in one minute, earlier this year. The Guinness Book of World Records features a host of new interactive and mobile phone based services for the first time. These include record-related ring tones, phone icons and SMS quizzes, games and a record news service to be launched later this year.