Ever wanted to have your own world record?
Of course you have, the idea of doing something better than anyone else in the world has spawned
competition for centuries, but there are some records so strange they’re hard to believe,
so join us as we count 10 shocking world records.
10.
Eye-Popping the Furthest Measured on the set of “Guinness World Records:
Primetime” Kim Goodman popped her eyeballs 0.43 inches out beyond the confines of her
eye sockets.
Kim was out with friends on a Halloween night out 30 years ago, when she accidentally popped
out one of her eyes when putting on her costume mask.
In 1997, the Guinness World Records found her and since then she has had an unbeaten
record.
9.
Buried Alive A man from the Czech Republic who’s name
I will not try to pronounce, survived 10 days buried underground without food or water.
Connected to the outside world only by a ventilation pipe, he beat out the latest record for being
buried alive which was set at 4 days.
He said the most difficult thing to endure during the feat was severe thirst, adding
that the seventh and eighth days were the most challenging.
Doctors - who were constantly monitoring the magician - said he lost 8.5kg (19lb) in the
wooden coffin.
8.
Longest Fingernails On Both Hands This is one of those records that can take
several decades to break but Melvin Booth and Lee Redmond made the sacrifice and achieved
combined fingernail lengths of 9.05 metres and 8.65 metres.
One can only wonder how on earth they do day to day tasks such as washing dishes, or even
wiping their behinds, but I guess that’s something for them to worry about, not us.
7.
Widest Mouth Francisco Domingo Joaquim - aka the Angolan
Jaw of Awe – has the widest mouth in the world.
Hailing from from Sambizanga in Angola, he can even fit a Coke can sideways in his 17cm-wide
mouth, which won him the World's Widest Mouth title at the Big Mouth competition in Rome
- setting the new world record for the Widest mouth.
After finding out that he would feature in the Guiness Book of World Records 2011, Joaquim
said that it was "a dream come true."
6.
Heaviest Weight Lifted By Tongue Here we have a rather strange man.
Thomas Blackthorne decided one day that he would dedicate 6 years of his life to increasing
the strength of his tongue, so that one day he could hold a world record.
His efforts eventually paid off and August 2008 he set the world record for the heaviest
weight lifted by tongue – which was 12.5 kilos!
Oh by the way, he did this by putting a hook through his pierced tongue.
Excuse me while I take a moment to be sick.
5.
Stretchiest skin Garry Turner of Great Britain is able to stretch
the skin of his stomach to a length of 15.8 centimeters (6.25 inches) due to a rare condition
called Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, a disorder of the connective tissues affecting the skin,
ligaments and internal organs.
The collagen that strengthens the skin and determines its elasticity becomes defective,
resulting in, among other things, a loosening of the skin and hypermobility of the joints.
In more serious cases, it can cause the fatal collapse or rupturing of blood vessels, but
for Garry it’s a party trick allowing him to carry up to 3 pints of beer using his skin
as a tray.
4.
Most Straws Stuffed In Mouth Simon Elmore of Germany broke this record
in 2009 by holding 400 straws in his mouth for 10 seconds.
I wonder what else you could fit in there?
A baseball?
Perhaps an iPhone 6 Plus, how about an Xbox, maybe a whole beaver?
In any case, it’s certainly impressive and yet somehow I wouldn’t like to be the record
holder for this.
3.
Hairiest man Victor “Larry” Ramos Gomez, and Gabriel
“Danny” Gomez are two of a Mexican family of 19 that spans five generations all suffering
from the rare condition called Congenital Generalized Hypertrichosis, characterized
by excessive facial and torso hair.
The women are covered with a light to medium coat of hair while the men of the family have
thick hair on approximately 98 percent of their bodies, apart from their hands and feet.
2.
Longest Time Spent In Direct Contact With Ice
Wim Hoff of the Netherland has come to be known as the Iceman as a result of his insane
ability to withstand cold temperatures for extended periods of time.
On January 23, 2009 he remained submerged in ice for 1 hour 42 minutes and 22 seconds
to set a decisive record in the cold exposure category.
1.
Heaviest Weight Pulled With Eyesockets Chayne Hultgren of Australia, otherwise known
as The Space Cowboy, pulled 907 pounds on the set of an Italian TV show on April 25,
2009.
Hultgren holds over 30 different world records.
Such as most chainsaw juggling catches on a unicycle, most swords swallowed underwater,
and most targets hit with throwing knives in one minute.
However, pulling over 400 kilos with his eye sockets by having fish hooks in them, is the
icing on the cake.
My eyes feel funny all of a sudden.