In this day and age of MMOverflow (I just made that up!), MMOs need a way to stand apart from one another, especially since most MMOs (EVE Online and Dungeons & Dragons Online excluded) and  get stuck in the same routine of killing or collecting X of Y, leveling to the max level, then killing bosses that drop good equipment, so you can harder kill bosses that drop better equipment, so you can kill even harder bosses that drop even better equipment. Trion Worlds is looking to separate their MMO RIFT from the rest of the pack, not with gameplay mechanics, but by attempting to set a Guinness World Record. Which one, you ask? The most virtual marriages in a 24-hour period, of course!

Today in “Things Which Cost A Lot When Greatly Enlarged And Put On Your Wall,” is this Scrabble board from Hammacher Schlemmer. Covering a whopping 49 square feet, the ad copy claims that there are only nine of these boards in existence, made by artist John Kahn, which perhaps justify the $12,000 price tag. The board itself is an exact replica of the smaller, table-top version and uses magnetic letters on a steel board for play. Oh, and it’s claimed to be the largest Scrabble board in the world, to boot. While certain to turn some heads, it’s probably best that you talk over the purchase of this colossal game board any loved ones you cohabitate with lest you find “I-M L-E-A-V-I-N-G Y-O-U” spelled out one morning. Triple word score.

While those of us living in large U.S. cities might gripe about high prices, it turns out that New York and San Francisco are amongst the cheapest cities in PriceRunner’s survey of the most expensive cities in the world. According to their findings, the Norwegian capital of Oslo took top honors as the most expensive compared to an international average of prices, and Mumbai, India, the cheapest.

This is Kristina Rei. She’s a 22-year old nail technician in St. Petersburg, Russia, and she’s had over 100 lip-enhancing injections since she was 17. While some people’s motivation for getting cosmetic surgery can be extremely complex and personal, Rei sums up hers quite succinctly as quoted by The Sun: ”I loved Jessica Rabbit’s huge lips. She was my idea of the perfect woman.”

Sichuan University professor An Shi has been awarded a patent for a tea that uses panda feces as fertilizer. Pandas only digest about 30 percent of the bamboo they eat, and bamboo, similar to green tea, contains a cancer preventative. So, considering about 70 percent of bamboo is left in the panda excrement used to fertilize the tea, the tea is supposed to provide cancer preventative effects. The tea, due to using excrement from a rare animal, could cost upwards of $69,000 per kilogram.

Called “Rhein II” and taken by Andreas Gursky, the picture above is the world’s most expensive photograph. Sold Tuesday night at Christie’s for $4.3 million, Rhein II broke the previous record for the price of a photograph, which was set by Cindy Sherman’s “Untitled #96″ at $3.89 million. The auction doesn’t make clear why such a seemingly simple, somewhat boring picture would be sold for such a high price of $4.3 million, but hey, art is art.

German unicyclist Lutz Eichholz set the new world record for riding a unicycle along the mouths of a line of beer bottles. Performing the stunt in Tel Aviv, Israel, Eichholz broke the previous record of 7.99 meters — which he set himself — by almost a full meter, measuring in at 8.93 meters. No Guinness World Records officials were present during the attempt, but they gave permission to the Israeli unicycling convention at which the record was set to host the event. Video after the jump.

The most massive fruiting body of any fungus yet discovered has been found on the underside of a tree in China. The fruiting body is similar to a mushroom in other types of fungi. The record breaking specimen is a bracket fungus that is 10m long, 80cm wide and weighs half a ton. The previous record belonged to a fungus growing on a tree in Kew Gardens in the UK.

The Chinese fungus is thought to have been growing for at least 20 years. The specimen was discovered by a team of researchers from the Herbarium of Biology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Led by professor Yu-Cheng Dai, the researchers were in the field studying wood-decaying fungi when they happened upon the record breaking fungi.

Artist Thomas Pavitt has set the unofficial record for the world’s most complicated connect-the-dots drawing — an image of the Mona Lisa — clocking in at 6,239 dots. Before starting on his project, Pavitt searched the Internet to find any references to the connect-the-dots record, but after he didn’t turn up any results, decided to set the record himself (for all he knows).

Every 400 dots, Pavitt changed their color so he could keep track of his progress, finally completing connecting the dots after nine hours and fifteen minutes. Head on past the break to see some more pictures of the work — including a fully-connected image — as well as a video.

Unfortunately, in areas of the country where roads cross through the habitats of various animals it is not uncommon to see an animal dead by the side of the road. This includes large mammals, like the mountain lion, whose range is crisscrossed by roads. However, while a dead mountain lion might be normal in South Dakota, it is certainly an unusual site in Connecticut. But, to the bewilderment of wildlife management officials, that is exactly where a mountain lion showed up in June.

DNA tests conducted on the Connecticut mountain lion have just been released, and show that the animal traveled 1,800 miles across the United States to get to the North East. The animal was native to the Black Hills of South Dakota and walked through several states, traveling the longest distance ever recorded for a land mammal.