For those of you who consider themselves daring and up for a challenge, we bring 11 craziest records registered in the Guinness Book you could try to break.
The idea for Guinness Book of World Records came to Hugh Beaver, the managing director of the Guinness Breweries when he got into an argument with his friend about Europe’s fastest game bird. He thought that there are others who are in doubt over similar questions, and decided to create a book that would contain the answers. The first Guinness Book of World Records came out in 1955 and instantly became a hit.
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During the years, the categories of records in the book expanded, and among the usual ones, the book contains some that you would never think of. If it can be measured, it is in the Guinness Book of World Records. Just to give you a general idea, the book contains a record, held by Coco Chanel, about the first perfume launched by a couturier. You can also check if her perfume is among 6 most popular perfumes of all time.
As you can see from our example the Guinness Book of World Records doesn’t contain just the competitions, but the facts as well like how many pounds was in the heaviest tumor in the world, or which river is the shortest one. These are all interesting records, but we are dedicated to finding out the truly crazy ones. To see which of the records are craziest records registered in the Guinness Book, we checked out the online edition of the book, and went for the category of Extra Ordinary Records described as “the very best unusual records of dexterity and daring”, knowing we found what we looked for. From all those records, we picked 11 craziest, in our opinion, for both your and our pleasure. Enjoy this crazy list that will make you laugh and think.
11. Longest metal coil passed through the nose and out of the mouth
Are you ready for this one? Shoving metal coils through nose just to have it come out of your mouth is a thing apparently. Andrew Stanton from the USA is a lucky guy who set this record on 31 March 2012. The metal coil was 11 ft 10.91 in long.
10. Longest sword swallowed
The honor to hold this record (and the perk of not having a gag reflex) goes to Natasha Veruschka. She managed to swallow 22.83 in long sword on 28 February 2009.
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9. Longest distance keeping a table lifted with teeth
If you don’t have an awesome dentist who practices magic in his free time, don’t try to break this one. Georges Christen from Luxembourg lifted a table, using his teeth only, weigh 26 lb 7 oz with a person on top of it with 110 lb 3 oz of weight. As that wasn’t an achievement enough, he also ran 38 ft 8 in carrying the table.
8. Fastest time to burst three balloons with the back
The crazy things you can do and enter in Guinness Book of World Records simply amaze us. There is a discipline of bursting three balloons with your back. Current record holder is Julia Gunthel, aka ‘Zlata’ from Germany, who managed to do this in 12 seconds on 23rd November 2007.
7. Most clothes pegs clipped to the face in one minute
One painful record in our 11 Craziest Records Registered In The Guinness Book is coming up. The record for having most clothes pegs clipped to the face in one minute holds Silvio Sabbaly from Italy. He managed to clip 51 pegs in a minute on 27th December 2012.
6. Most spoons balanced on the face
Dalibor Jablanović comes from Serbia, and he is unique for one particular reason. On 28th September 2013 he managed to balance 31 spoons on his face, breaking the record on the Guinness World Record Challengers site.
5. Three contortionists in a box – duration
What do you get when you jam three contortionists in a box (26 x 27 x 22 in) and they manage to stay inside for 6 min 13.52 second? You get a world record. The current holders are Skye Broberg, Nele Siezen and Jola Siezen from New Zealand.
4. Longest distance walking over hot plates
We don’t know do people just like to walk over hot plates, or they are doing it just to get their name in Guinness Book of World Records. German TV presenter Florian Silbereisen decided to break the record for longest distance walking over hot plates during a live broadcast, and succeeded. He walked 82 ft 0.25 in.
3. Most straws stuffed in the mouth (hands off)
Stuffing 400 straws in your mouth is a challenge enough, but imagine doing that without using your hands. Well, Simon Elmore from the UK is a proud owner of this record. He even managed to hold them for 10 seconds in his mouth.
2. Farthest arrow shot using feet
You will probably wonder do people still shoot arrows at all. Well they do it with their feet apparently. Nancy Siefker managed to shoot an arrow, using only her feet, into a target that was 20 ft away. According to regulations, the target had to be at most 12 inches in diameter, but Nancy did it with a target that had 5.5 inches.
1. Most apples held in own mouth and cut by chainsaw in one minute
For a great finale of our 11 Craziest Records Registered In The Guinness Book, we prepared chainsaw and apples. This one does not only sound crazy, but it’s dangerous as well. To try and break this record, you have to put an apple in your mouth and then cut it with a chainsaw and do that all over again in a course of one minute. Johnny Strange from the UK managed to do so 8 times.
