Facts about World Records and Feats!

The strangest diet award goes to Michel Lotito for eating 900 grams (2 lbs) of metal everday. He says bananas and hardboiled eggs make him sick.
John Evans set the record for "Heaviest car balanced on head" when he balanced a 352 lb car on his head for 33 seconds in the London Studios.
The most pushups ever done using the back of hands in one hour is 1,940 achieved by Paddy Doyle.
Rakesh Kumar hung 156 lbs and 8 oz from his ear making him the record holder of the heaviest weight lifted with an ear.
The heaviest aircraft ever pulled by an individual weigh 184 tons, it was achieved by David Huxley.
The fastest lunge mile ever compled was in 30 minutes and 50 seconds by Ashrita Furman
The longest distance covered entirely by a pogo stick was 23.11 miles in 12 hours and 27 minutes also comepleted by Ashrita Furman.
Did we mention Ashrita Furman holds the most world records in the world?
He also claims the record for Greatest Distance Walked with a Milk Bottle Balanced on the Head when he walked 80.96 miles while balancing a bottle of milk on his head.
The tallest man to ever stand with irrefutable evidence is Robert Wadlow who stood at 8ft 11in tall.
Most fingers and toes on a living person is 25. There are two record holders, Pranamya Menaria and Devendra Harne who both suffer from Polydactyly. They were also both born in India.
Worlds longest hair measures 18 ft 5.54 inches from Xie Quiping who has been letting her hair grow out since she was 13.
The oldest married couples aggregate age (combined age) was 209 years and 262 days. Thomas and Elizabeth Morgan were married 81 years 260 days until Elizabeth's death on January 19, 1891.
The oldest male stripped was Bernie Barker who was 66 years old while he was working for Club LeBare before he passed away.
The youngest professional artist was 344 days old. Her name is Arushi Bhatnagar and she lives in India.
The largest collection of key chains belongs to Brent Dixon, he has 41, 418 keychains.
The largest card game tournament ever was located in Spain and included 512 pairs. The game played is called Mus and is very popular in Spain.
The smallest waist around is 15in (about the size of an average mayonnaise jar). The record holder is Cathie Jung, shes been wearing a corset everyday for the past 12 years, and now wears one everday.
Matt McCallister holds the record for most t-shirts on at one time with a whopping 155 shirts.
Dana kunze set the world record for highest dive when he dived 172 feet at the High Dive World Championchips.
Usain Bolt ran the 100 meter in 9.69 seconds setting the record for fasted 100 meter dash.
The most firecrackes little off of one megastring is 10,500,000 at the 2006 Fireworks Convention is Appleton, Wisconsin.
The world record for stone skipping is 50+ skips.
The most bras unhooked in 20 seconds is 17.
The longest backwards motorcycle ride record was achieved by Hou Xiaobin. His ride last for 93.21 miles.
The highest jump achieved by a pig was 27.5 in.
Steven Petrosino drank 1 liter of beer (33 ounces) in 1.3 seconds on June 22, 1977 at the Gingerbreadman in Carlise.
The world's largest coffee pot is located in Davidson, Saskatchewan. It measures 24 Feet(7.3 Meters) tall, is made of sheet metal and could hold 150,000 8 ounce cups of coffee.
The Tokyo World Lanes Bowling Center is the largest bowling establishment in the world. It has 252 lanes.
The longest Monopoly game ever played was 1,680 hours long, that's 70 straight days.
The highest wind velocity ever recorded in the United States was 231 miles per hour, on Mount Washington, New Hampshire, in 1934.
At 12 years old, an African named Ernest Loftus made his first entry in his diary and continued everyday for 91 years.
A Fender Stratocaster guitar signed by a host of music legends fetched US$2.7 million (then £1.57 million) at a charity auction for the Reach Out To Asia foundation. It's the most valuable guitar in the world. 
The largest school in the world is a k-12 school in the Philippines, with an enrollment of about 25,000.
The highest recorded wave reached just over 112 feet.
Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system, employing over a million people.
Westwood Studios' computer game 'Command and Conquer' is the most successful war game series of all time according to Guinness Book of World Records.
As of September 1998, the highest recorded mileage for a car was 1,615,000 miles for a 1966 Volvo P-1800.
Jackie Bibby holds the record for sitting in a bathtub with the most live rattlesnakes. He sat in a tub with 35 of them.
The company, Kodak, is the largest user of silver.
Lang Martin balanced seven golf balls vertically without adhesive at Charlotte, NC on 9 February 1980.
The greatest snowfall ever in a single storm was 189 inches at the Mount Shasta Ski Bowl in February, 1959.
Karen Roman grew the world's largest cauliflower. It weighed 22 pounds.
Most insects used in a film: 22 million bees in The Swarm.
When stuntman and parachutist Dar Robinson leaped from the ledge of the 1,170 foot high CN Tower in Toronto, he was paid $150,000, the most ever for a single stunt.
The surface speed record on the moon is 10.56 miles per hour. It was set in a lunar rover.
John Schultz set the record for most back of hand pushups in one minute when he successfully completed 123 of them.
The largest omelette in the world was made in Ontario, Canada. It weighed 6,510 lbs.
Matt Bogdanowicz set a new world record for most pullups in one minute, 46 on October 27th 2007 at Fitness Together in Livermore, California (USA).

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