Guinness

Guinness

Guinness - weird, great and wacky abound
He Pingping (R), 19, a zero.seventy three metres (2 ft, 5 inches) man, adjusts his suit as he shakes fingers with Bao Xishun (L), 56, a 2.36-metre (7 ft, 9 inches) herdsman listed by the Guinness World Records because the tallest dwelling man, in Baotou, north China's Internal Mongolia Autonomous... REUTERS/Jason Lee
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Australian John Allwood smashed forty watermelons together with his head in only one minute. Using only one hand, Germany's Thomas Vogel unfastened 56 bras in 60 seconds.
In relation to the world's weirdest achievers, nothing beats the last word accolade - a spot in Guinness World Information for demonstrating bizarre expertise.
Nothing is simply too wacky.
Can you catch seventy seven grapes in your mouth in below a minute, keep 9 yo-yo's spinning on the same time, hold your breath for greater than 14 minutes or throw a washer?
Then Guinness has a spot for you.
The annual compendium, whose latest edition is printed on Friday, even has a bit entitled Trivial Pursuits.
Few would argue with the title as Guinness lists the globe's finest practitioners at placing the quilt on a duvet, kicking yourself within the head and throwing paper plane into a bucket.
Italian Michele Santana wins an entry for typing fifty seven books backwards.
Indian yoga instructor G.P Vijayakumar snorted eight fish up via his mouth and out of his nostrils in a minute.
American Jackie Bibby shared his tub with seventy five stay western diamondback rattlesnakes.
The most recent version also has a 4-web page pullout of the world's grossest data.
China's Wei Shengchu good points notoriety for many acupuncture needles within the head and face.
Frenchman Michel Lotito claimed the weirdest weight loss plan - over the years he consumed 128 bicycles and 15 supermarket trolleys which he washed down with six chandeliers, two beds and a pair of skis.
Natasha Veruschka won Guinness immortality by swallowing thirteen swords at the Third Annual Sideshow Gathering and Sword Swallowers Conference in Pennsylvania.
Few could equal the weird feat of China's Dong Changsheng - he pulled a 1.5 tonne automotive using ropes hooked onto his lower eyelids.
Within the mass participation category, 3,541 Philippine ladies in Manila shared the report for essentially the most girls ever to have breastfed their infants concurrently.
The highest prize for survival has to go to American park ranger Roy C.Sullivan - he was struck by lightning seven instances.
Each strike took its toll - he misplaced eyebrows and a toe nail as well as suffering singed hair and chest burns.
He died in 1993 - not killed by lightning but by his personal hand after reportedly being rejected in love.
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