What started as a joke has now set a Guinness World Record.
Fans of Puerto Rico's World Baseball Classic team are hoping blonde leads to gold in 2023.
Ahead of Puerto Rico's WBC opener, a group of 192 men on the Caribbean island dyed their hair blonde to support the ballclub. The event set the Guinness World Record for the most hair dyed in eight hours.of 160 was set in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in March 2013. Despite some fans being disqualified for having white or graying hair, the record was broken in under six hours.Why the blonde hair? Well, Puerto Rican players dyed their hair blonde for the 2017 World Baseball Classic as a joke.
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