10 Of The Most Bizarre World Records For A Little WTF In Your Life
Kenneth Coo
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07/22/2017
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What a fascinating world we live in.
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Farthest eyeball pop. For almost thirty years, Kim Goodman has been able to pop her eyeballs out of her eye sockets. She discovered her unique talent after getting hit on the head with a hockey mask, which caused a slight eyeball protrusion. Now, her eyeballs pop out when she yawns, and she can pop them out on cue, which she has done on talk shows. -
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Largest Gathering Of People Dressed As Penguins. As you can probably guess, from the sight of the London Bridge in the background, behind the penguins, this silly record was set in London at Canary Wharf. The 624 people that dressed as penguins from head to toe showed up at The Scoop, an amphitheater located underneath the City Hall on the south side of the River Thames. The record-breaking gathering was organized by the Richard House Children’s Hospice as a fundraising event. In the end, it was proven to be worth it as it raised over $25,000 for children with life-threatening health conditions and their families. -
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Most Toilet Seats Broken By The Head In One Minute. The name of the man who holds this bizarre record is Kevin Shelley, a personal trainer from Indiana. His passion is martial arts and his record is quite impressive if you think about it—46 wooden toilet seats broken in 1 minute using his head. Shelley performed this feat on live television during a Guinness World Records Show that was held in Cologne, Germany. He also tried to break the record before, during a similar show in Italy, but he only managed to break 44 seats. At that time, he promised that he will try it again until he succeeds, and so he did. -
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Most Steps Walked By A Dog Balancing A Glass Of Water. Balancing a glass of water on your head while walking is indeed a very hard thing to do. But with training, probably anyone can do it for a few steps. Now, the question is: is it harder or easier to do it if you walk on all fours, have a tail, a long nose, and occasionally bark at the neighbor’s cat? Well, we don’t know if balancing something on the head is easier for dogs than it is for humans, but it’s certainly harder to get them to try it. The record in this category goes to Sweet Pea, an Australian Shepherd owned by Alex Rothacker. The highly trained dog managed to walk a full 10 steps while perfectly balancing a glass of water on its head. Too bad he probably doesn’t realize that he’s a world record holder. -
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Loudest Purr By A Domestic Cat. What, you ask, is there really a record for that? Yes, there is. The record holder is Merlin, a rescue kitty from Devon (UK), the owner, Tracy Westwood, said that she suspected for a long time that Merlin’s talent is very unusual and possibly record-breaking, and so she decided to call the good folks at Guinness World Records so that they test her kitten’s purr with a special device. The result was 67.8 decibels, narrowly beating the previous record of 67.68 set in 2011 by Smokey, another British cat. To give some context to this number, Merlin’s purr is about as loud as a normal conversation or an air conditioner and Tracy says that sometimes he gets much louder than he was when tested by the experts. -
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Fastest Marathon Dressed As A Vegetable. After completing the 26-mile course in a very respectable two hours, 59 minutes, and 33 seconds, 27-year-old Edward Lumley got himself much more than a medal and a complementary T-shirt. The Londoner became the fastest man to run a marathon dressed as a vegetable to raise money for Spinal Research, a charity dedicated to curing paralysis caused by a broken back or neck. -
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Most Beer Bottles Opened With A Helicopter. That's one expensive bottle opener! Yes it has been done, and it has been done so many times that the record for this feat has changed many hands. The current holder is pilot Zhao Yang from China, who managed to remove 6 bottle caps in 3 minutes during the TV program Guinness World Records Special in Zhejiang, China. -
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Longest Distance Pulled By A Horse While On Fire. This one seems downright brutal, but believe it or not, there is one man that did this willingly in order to put his name next to this shocking record. The daredevil’s name is Josef Tödtli and he is the man known for being pulled by a horse while on full body burn for 1640 feet. The professional stuntman who has no less than 49 movie credits to his name holds numerous other records that involve the same painful experiences like burning and being dragged on the ground. During the whole attempt, Josef had an ATV driving next to him in order to pour lamp oil so that the flames stay lit. I guess he couldn’t afford to not burn until he reached his goal distance. Otherwise, his record would have been compromised and all the pain would’ve been for nothing. -
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Most People In One Pair Of Underpants. In the same time, I might add; otherwise your local Walmart would win with ease. The fight for this particular record has been a very fierce one, as it started from 20 people then it got to about 50. Then it cracked 100 and so on until it started to become quite ridiculous. Not that it wasn’t from the beginning, I’m just saying it got even more so. The very disputed record is currently held by a number of 314 students at the University of Warwick, that managed to all fit in a ridiculously large pair of undergarments. -
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Most Guinness World Records Held By One Man. What should we do with a man hogging records? Give him another one! Ashrita Furman, probably the world’s only truly professional record breaker has dedicated the better part of his life to cracking every single record he could manage to, and the results are indeed astonishing. Over 600 records were set by Ashrita since 1969, and he currently still holds around 200 of them. He got his first official record after doing 12,000 jumping jacks and his accomplishments throughout the years include most underwater rope jumps in one hour, highest mountain climbed on stilts, and making the world’s largest pencil. He is truly an amazing person who took his passion for breaking records to the next level and managed to become the best at it.
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