For this year's Guinness World Records Day, the inadvertent theme was taking back records to for a sense of community and countrywide pride-there were Irish leprechauns and a massive tea party from Britain.

If it sounds like a cliché, it's only because it's true.

"This year, it seems to be about bringing records back home to the people who are most passionate about enjoying their culture and national identity," Craig Glenday, Editor-In-Chief of the Guinness Book of World Records, said.

More than 300,000 people were involved in this year's events and some records have already been confirmed to be broken. In Florida, the record for oldest yoga teacher (91) and largest hula hoop workout record (221 participants).

The former is Bernice Mary Bates who lives in Florida's Mainlands Retirement Community Center, and the latter was a group of school children from Longleaf Elementary School in Pinellas Park Florida.

More notably included was the largest cream tea party from Essex, England, hosted by The English Tea Company, where 334 tea drinkers made the record with scones and jam. The English Tea Company's Jane Maylon said that the record was such a wonderful event where her love for the British tradition and time leisurely spent were combined.

Dublin, 262 people dressed as leprechauns got together to win back the record formerly set in the U.S. No one said it better than Derek Mooney.

"We believe that a record for leprechauns belongs to its native soil and we're really pleased to bring it back to Ireland," Mooney, from Ireland's RTE Radio One, said.

Other record attempts include the largest number of people whistling (Switzerland), the world's biggest Zumba class taught (Netherlands), the most arrows caught blindfolded in 2 minutes (Germany), the largest rice cracker (Japan) and the largest colouring book (Nigeria).

All of the records set for World Records Day are set to be shortlisted for the next edition of the book.

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