00:00If you think you can balance a car on your head that is heavier than
00:04352 pounds, then you have a good chance of beating the current Guinness World Record
00:09John Evans from England who holds it found he had a superpower while he was working as a bricklayer at
00:1717 he could hold 24 bricks on his head
00:21Years later. He started balancing fridges cement mixers kegs and other objects on his dome to raise money for charity
00:30He managed to hold a minicar on his head for 33 seconds in
00:341999 if anything had gone wrong it would have cost him his life
00:39It took another dangerous record-breaker
00:42Michelle Lotito two years to eat an airplane
00:46He cut it up with an electric power saw to create bite-sized chunks
00:50Then he swallowed it piece by piece and washed it down with mineral oil and tons of water
00:57Before you try to beat his record you must know he had a special condition that made him crave and eat things that aren't food
01:06He consumed over nine tons of metal during his lifetime
01:10including 18 bicycles 15 supermarket trolleys
01:15six chandeliers two beds a pair of skis a
01:19Computer a coffin and the commemorative Guinness World Records brass plaque
01:25Mick Meaney from Ireland decided that he could break the world record for the most number of days buried underground and become famous
01:33He spent 61 days in a coffin seven feet under the ground in
01:381968
01:39Nick woke up at 7 in the morning every day did a workout with partial press-ups
01:44Then had breakfast and read a newspaper
01:47there were two pipes sticking out of his temporary home one for food and one for ventilation and
01:53Keeping in touch with people above the ground the TV worldwide
01:57Radio and newspapers covered his adventure, but no one from the Guinness Book of Records was there when he resurfaced
02:04Perhaps they found it too dangerous. So he never ended up in the book
02:09The longest kiss ever recorded lasted 58 hours and 35 minutes
02:15Nine couples entered the annual competition in Thailand and one of them set this record on Valentine's Day in 2013
02:23Guinness discounted this category because the rules of such competitions were too strict
02:28The people had to keep their lips touching the entire time no breaks at all
02:33They could drink liquids using a straw, but they couldn't let their lips come apart. Not even for a second
02:40They had to stay awake and stand the whole time and even if they needed to go to the bathroom
02:45They had to keep kissing
02:47To make things safer
02:49They replaced the longest kiss with a new contest called the longest kissing marathon with short breaks to rest eat and even sleep
02:58on October 14th
03:012012 8 million people were watching Austrian skydiver
03:05Felix Baumgartner live as he beat eight world records and the sound barrier
03:11He lifted off from Roswell, New Mexico to the edge of space
03:14He got there inside the largest balloon with a human on board as tall as the Statue of Liberty when fully inflated
03:23Several hours later Felix was back as the first human to break the sound barrier in freefall
03:28completing the highest freefall parachute jump and
03:32achieving the fastest speed in freefall
03:35Nick Wallenda holds 11 Guinness World Records. He's the first person who walked a tightrope over Niagara Falls
03:42Nick comes from a famous circus dynasty the Flying Wallendas. He first walked the tightrope when he was just 13
03:50He walked across the Grand Canyon and the Orlando Eye
03:55That observation wheel is higher than the Statue of Liberty
03:58It was windy and wet, but he landed another record that will be really risky to beat
04:05Jin Song Gao has spent many years training his body to handle the freezing cold
04:11He can sit in a tub filled with ice cubes not for a minute, but for hours
04:16Jin became the champion when he stayed in the ice for
04:19113 minutes and broke a world record. A couple years later
04:24He managed to beat his own record by two minutes on a TV show
04:28In the last two minutes the audience cheered him on with music which helped him push through
04:33A
04:34Fearless man from China covered his whole body in bees to create the so-called bee beard
04:41This Italian tradition is from the 19th century
04:44People place a queen bee on themselves to attract thousands of bees
04:47The record-breaker had to place not one but 60 queen bees on his body to attract
04:54637,000 bees
04:56He set the official record for the heaviest mantle of bees
05:00The Guinness adjudicators were there but watched from a safe distance
05:04The new champion explained that the secret there is to stay calm
05:08Bees usually won't bite as it would cost them their lives. So you must not annoy them
05:14Guinness doesn't accept applications for the longest fasting because they don't encourage people to deprive themselves of food
05:21The only exception was in 1971
05:25Angus Barbieri survived without food for
05:28382 days
05:30He was 27 and weighed
05:32465 pounds when he started what was supposed to be a short fasting program at the hospital
05:38But Angus felt so good and was determined that he convinced the doctors to let him continue
05:44He even stopped working at his father's fish and chips shop to avoid any temptation to eat
05:50He survived on vitamins, tea, coffee,
05:53sparkling water, and a small amount of yeast to give him the nutrients he needed
05:58Angus got regular checkups to make sure he was okay. By the end of the fast, his weight dropped to
06:05180 pounds. He stayed healthy after his fast and maintained a stable weight for years
06:11If you wanted to get in the book of records because your pet is a plus-sized beauty, sorry
06:16But it won't happen either. The heaviest cat ever, Hemi, was from Australia
06:22It passed away at the age of 10 because of health issues and will forever be the record-breaker in this category
06:29Hemi weighed over 46 pounds in its final days in
06:341986. It was so heavy that it had to move around in a wheelbarrow
06:39Guinness World Records figured out that people could start over feeding their pets by force
06:44Just to make it into the book and closed the category 12 years later
06:48Now they monitor the weight and size of animals by breed, but not by individual animals
06:55Driving around the world at top speed is definitely an adventure, but it won't get you on the record list anymore
07:02Many people tried to do it, setting record after record, going faster and faster
07:07But by 1996, the Guinness Organization decided to stop accepting new claims
07:12It's just too dangerous and against the law to ignore the speed limits set in different countries
07:18By the way, the first successful attempt to circumnavigate by car took two years and one month
07:26In 1927, a racing driver and a filmmaker started off from Frankfurt, Germany and finished just beyond the starting point in Berlin
07:34If you want to set a new record in this field, you can try a boat, plane, helicopter, or maybe an auto gyro
07:42Dance marathons started in the U.S. in the 1920s when a woman named Alma Cummings danced for 27 hours with six different partners
07:51Everyone wanted to break her record, and soon, people all over the country were joining in
07:57In the 30s, they became even more popular because they offered free food, a place to stay, and the chance to win huge cash prizes
08:06The rules were tough
08:08The rules were tough
08:10Dancers had to stay standing and keep moving their feet, even while eating, shaving, or reading
08:16If a dancer was too slow, judges would tap their leg with a ruler to keep them moving
08:21Sadly, in 1923, a man named Homer Morehouse danced for 87 hours, collapsed, and passed away
08:30They immediately banned such marathons in Boston and L.A., and New York followed
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