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Big List: Weird records

PHUKET: Record books are littered with grand achievements that sometimes touch on the bizarre. Let’s pry that weird book open.


By Jean-Pierre Mestanza

Friday 30 November 2012 05:04 PM


Furthest squirting milk from eye

A 28-year-old Turkish construction worker named Iiker Yilmaz set the record in 2004. He proceeded to snort the milk up his nose and squirted the liquid about 279.5 centimetres thorugh his eye. He broke the previous record of 266 cm set in France in 2001. There have not been any record attempts since.

 

Longest fingernails

After 18 years of refusing to cut her nails, 45-year-old grandmother Chris Walton has officially set the world record for longest fingernails. Her nails are an incredibly long 6.09 metres, though she claims there are no problems with performing everyday tasks like cooking, cleaning, using the computer.

 

Longest ear hair

The grossest world record goes to India’s Anthony Victor whose ear hair is poking 18.1 cm outside of it’s waxy home. Guinness World Record officials measured the hair from the center of his outer ears to the tip. Victor smashed the previous record, almost doubling it, which was held by another Indian man and measured at 10.2 cm. Now that’s noise reduction technology, Indian-style.

 

Spin basketball on a toothbrush

The masses were enthralled the entire 22.41 seconds that Thaneshwar Guragain spun a basketball on a toothbrush held in his mouth. The 23-year-old Nepali broke the previous record of 13.5 seconds set by Thomas Connors of the UK. Guragain also holds five other Guinness World Records, including most basketball dribbles in a minute (446), longest spin of the Guinness Book on a finger (30 minutes), most tennis passes in one minute (38), and most tennis passes in three minutes (96).

 

Cycling backwards while playing violin

Christian Adam set the record for cycling backwards while playing the violin way back in 1963. Adam set the record in five hours and nine minutes and was able to cover 60.45 km on a part of the highway St. Gallen in Switzerland that was not yet opened for traffic. Want more? He did it all while wearing a tuxedo. Afterwards, it was assumed that he asked for a martini, shaken not stirred.