Amazing World Records

[Titana]

Just as the title of the thread says, just post a World Record you thought was really amazing.......;)


Furthest Eyeball Popper

Kim Goodman of Chicago, Illinois, USA, can pop her eyeballs to a protrusion of 11 mm. (0.43 in) beyond her eye sockets. Her eyes were measured on the set of the television show Guinness World Records: Primetime on June 13, 1998.......:eek:


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[Spock Jenkins]

I'm pretty sure the world's tallest man at 8' 11" will never be broken. His height was caused by a condition that usually gets diagnosed and treated now days - so even he wouldn't hold this record had he been born a few decades later.

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Highest freefall ever survived without parachute. Yes, you reach terminal velocity after 300m or so, but still amazing. The three survivors are listed here (http://www.greenharbor.com/fffolder/ffallers.html).

[Titana]

Greediest Animal


The larva of the polyphemus moth (Antheraea polyphemus) of North America consumes an amount equal to 86,000 times its own birthweight in the first 56 days of its life. In human terms, this would be equivalent to a 3.17 kg (7 lb) baby eating 273 tons of food.


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[cjl]

Highest massing pumpkin: 666.33 kg

Wow...

[Tog_]

Highest massing pumpkin: 666.33 kg

Wow... and a little evil...:whistle:

Samurai swords were often tested on dead criminals, live criminals, or even live members of the peasant class. There were 16 standardized cuts on the human body used to rate the swords, called tamashigiri. The record for the number of bodies cut in half with one stroke is 7. Let's hope there are no attempts to break it.

[Titana]

Largest Collection of Beer Bottles

Ron Werner (USA) has amassed a collection of 16,321 beer bottles since 1982. This includes 10,755 which are unopened.


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[ToSeek]

Kunihiko Terada (Japan) arranged a shuffled deck of cards in order (Ace through Ten, Jack, Queen, King for Diamonds, Clubs, Hearts and Spades), in his hands only, in 40.36 sec at the Hard Rock Cafe, Tokyo, Japan on January 25, 2004.

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The best time for restoring the rubik's cube in an official championship was 12.11 sec by Shotaro Makisumi (Japan) at the Caltech Spring Tournament on 3 April 2004.

Here are a bunch of other insane rubik's cube records (http://www.recordholders.org/en/list/rubik.html)

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Longest Ear Hair.....:think:

Radhakant Bajpai of Naya Ganj, Uttar Pradesh, India, has hair sprouting from the centre of his outer ears (middle of the pinna) that measures an incredible 13.2 cm (5.19 in) at its longest point. The length of the 50-year-old's pinna pelt was confirmed by medical examiner Dr. R P Gupta.



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[Titana]

Largest Outdoor Spiders' Web

In October, 1998, a cobweb that covered the entire 4.54-ha (11.2-acre) playing field at Kineton High School, Warwick, England, was discovered by Ken Thompson - the school’s caretaker. It had been created by thousands of black money spiders.


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