A 49-year-old man with the largest collection of Daleks in the world features in the 2012 Guinness World Records.

Rob Hull is recognised for having the largest collection of the Doctor Who baddies, with a total of 571 models.

His hoard, which includes a 1.8 metre (6ft) lifesize replica model, is the product of 20 years of collecting, even though he is not interested in the show.

Hull, from Doncaster, South Yorkshire, said: "I've never been a fan of the show, but I have been enchanted by the Daleks ever since I saw one in a toy store as a child.

"My mum wouldn't buy it for me, but I swore at that moment that I'd have my own one day."

He said he bought his first Dalek at the age of 29 and since then they had slowly taken over the house.

But his 43-year-old wife, Dawn, will not celebrate her husband being the newest record-holder.

She said: "I hate the bloody things and I've got a feeling this is only going to encourage him."

Another bizarre record that features in the 2012 collection has been achieved by Uchida Geinousha's Super Wan Wan Circus, based in Tsukuba City, Ibaraki prefecture, Japan.

It offers audiences a unique spectacle – the incredible sight of 13 dogs skipping on a rope.

The main dog handler at the circus said: "It actually started by accident one day when Mayonnaise, an incredibly curious poodle, started to try and skip with us.

"She clearly really enjoyed it and we decided to get the other dogs involved. It's become part of their playtime."

The Rev Darrell Best, of Shelbyville, Illinois, USA, has won the title of fastest wedding chapel after converting his 1940s fire truck into a wedding chapel on wheels.

The wedding chapel, entitled The Best Man, allows lovers to tie the knot while they are on the road and is capable of reaching speeds of 62mph.

Best, who has married more than 40 couples in the vehicle, said: "It allows them to get married in any environment they want. Sometimes they don't want to get off the vehicle so it's the bride and the groom, the two witnesses, and the minister all in the sanctuary on the back of the truck. It can get pretty intimate."

Christine Walton, 45, from Las Vegas, has been revealed as the new record-holder for the longest fingernails, measuring 10ft 2ins (309.8cm) on her left hand and 9ft 7ins (292.1cm) on her right hand – a total of 19ft 9ins (601.9cm).

With a tongue measuring 3.8ins (9.75cm) from the tip to top of her lip, student Chanel Tapper, 21, from California, USA, is revealed to have the world's longest tongue.

And Aevin Dugas, a 36-year-old social worker from New Orleans, USA, is the proud owner of the largest natural afro in the world with a circumference measuring 4ft 4ins (1.32 metres).

Craig Glenday, editor-in-chief of the Guinness World Records, said: "When you think of the weirdest and wackiest, inevitably Guinness World Records will come to mind.

"The 2012 [edition] celebrates some of the most extraordinary examples of this. The individuals that add a little colour to our day."