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World-class athletes have to train intensively for more than one year to set a world record. But there are also records in the world that have nothing to do with sports. Even mere mortals can handle them. Our review includes 17 unusual records that provide a unique opportunity to get into the Guinness Book of Records. Unless, of course, one of our readers manages to beat them.

1. Number of discs held on one finger

Current record: 50 pieces

Rules: You cannot put a CD on your finger; the discs must lie flat on your finger without falling.

2. Number of T-shirts worn in one minute

Current record: 31 T-shirts

Rules: You can use T-shirts of any size, short or long sleeve, or you can use a friend's help. T-shirts must be worn on top of each other.

3. The amount of jelly eaten per minute using Chinese chopsticks

Current record: 90.72 grams

Rules: jelly can be of any flavor. But you can only eat it with Chinese chopsticks held with one hand. The other hand should be behind your back.

4. Number of stickers glued to the face in one minute

Current record: 58 pieces

Rules: You must use stickers that are at least 73mm in size on each side. A person must put the stickers on his face himself, and they must remain on his face for another 10 seconds after the end of the competition. You should also not put stickers on your eyelids.

5. The amount of time it takes to put 24 cans in the refrigerator

Current record: 9.76 seconds

Rules: jars must be undamaged and closed, but the refrigerator can be anything. The countdown begins from the moment the refrigerator door is opened. If even one can falls or gets damaged in the process, the attempt is not counted.

6. Number of tennis balls held in one hand

Current record: 26 pieces

Rules: Balls must be placed one at a time with your free hand, and all balls must be held in place for 5 seconds after the last one is placed on your hand.

7. How many times can you carry a basketball between your legs in 30 seconds?

Current record: 68 times

Rules: You can use a soccer or basketball ball standard size. If the ball touches the floor, the try does not count.

8. Fastest time to type the alphabet in reverse order on an iPad

Current record: 2 seconds (currently under review)

Rules: an unupgraded store-bought iPad with official firmware must be used. Letters can be typed in any case, without errors in their order.

9. Number of leapfrog jumps by two people in 30 seconds

Current record: 32 times

Rules: Participants must take turns jumping over each other, with one person placing both hands on the ground and the other placing both hands on the other person's shoulders.

10. Fastest time to drink 500ml of water

Current record: 2.35 seconds

Rules: You must use a transparent glass and do not spill a drop.

11. Number of saltine crackers eaten in 1 minute

Current record: 10 pieces

Rules: You can only put 1 cracker in your mouth and after it is eaten, the participant must show an empty mouth before starting the next one. The number of crackers eaten in one minute is counted. At the same time, you cannot drink crackers.

12. Number of jumps into pants and back in 30 seconds

Current record: 9 times

Rules: One-size-fits-all panties cannot be used; their size must correspond to the actual size of the participant. The panties must be fully worn to the waist when jumping into them, and also completely removed before the next jump. Only jumps with two legs count.

13. Number of push-ups with clapping in the air per minute

Current record: 77 times

Rules: you cannot bend your knees or back, and push-ups must be done “all the way.”

14. Speedy assembly of "Mr. Potato Head" with blindfolds

Current record: 16.17 seconds

Rules: You must use only your hands, and all parts of the toy must be in place.

15. Number of coins stacked in 30 seconds

Current record: 51 pieces

Rules: You can use any coins with a maximum thickness of 3 mm. In this case, the coins must be folded with one hand, the other must be placed behind the back. After 30 seconds, the stack of coins must stand for at least 5 seconds.

16. Fastest time to put a duvet cover on a double duvet

Current record: 26.03 seconds

Rules: The blanket must be placed “neatly” in the duvet cover, with all four corners aligned exactly.

17. The largest amount of marshmallows eaten in one minute

Current record: 25 pieces

Rules: marshmallows must be a standard size, and you can only eat one at a time. It is strictly prohibited to drink marshmallows.

On May 4, 1951, Sir Hugh Beaver - then managing director of the Guinness Brewery - went hunting in County Wexford, Ireland.
He witnessed a dispute over the fastest bird in Europe, and then realized that it was impossible to find out in reference books.
Then the idea occurred to him that such a book could become popular.
The first edition of the Guinness Book of Records, 197 pages long, appeared on August 27, 1955, and by Christmas it had already become the most popular book in Britain.
Since the first edition, more than 400 million copies have been sold. The latest book published is “Guinness Book of Records 2010”.

The largest gastropod is the African giant snail (Achatina achatina). The largest of the individuals reached 39.3 cm from head to tip of tail.
The length of the shell was 27.3 cm, and the snail weighed exactly 900 grams. (Paul Michael Hughes/Guinness World Records)


Joel Wohl from the USA pushes his masterpiece - the largest ball ever rubber bands.
The 4,097 kg ball was measured in Lauderhill, Florida on November 13, 2008. (Guinness World Records)


The largest number of people dressed as Smurfs was 1,253, who attended the Muknomania festival in Castleblayney, Ireland, on July 18, 2008. (Guinness World Records)


The record for the 100-meter steeplechase was 22.35 seconds.
The record holder was the German Maren Zonker in Cologne, Germany, on September 13, 2008. (John Wright/Guinness World Records)


The world's largest pocket knife is 3.9 meters when unfolded and weighs 122 kg.
It was designed by Telmo Cadavez from Portugal, and handmade by Virgilio Raul also from Portugal on January 9, 2003. (Guinness World Records)


The heaviest lemon in the world weighed 5 kg 265 g and was grown by Aharon Shemel on a farm in Kfar Zeitim, Israel. (Guinness World Records)


Scott Murphy of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, bent a 12-inch-diameter aluminum frying pan in 30 seconds on July 30, 2007.
The girth of the resulting “lump” was 17.46 cm. (Guinness World Records)


The largest number of beer mugs carried by a woman 40 meters is 19.
This was done by Anita Schwartz in Mesenich, Germany, on November 9, 2008, Guinness World Records Day. (Nick Hannes/Guinness World Records)


Sam Wakeling rode 453.6 km on a unicycle in 24 hours in Aberystwyth, Wales, from 29 to 30 September 2007. (Guinness World Records)


Jean-Francis Vernetti from Switzerland has collected 8,888 different "Do Not Disturb" signs from hotels in 189 countries since 1985. (Guinness World Records)


The total length of Melvin Booth's nails (left) from Michigan is 9.05 meters. Lee Redmont (right), who hasn't cut her nails since 1979 and kept them neatly filed to grow them to 8.65m, lost her 'wealth' in an accident in February.
The 68-year-old record holder says this is the most dramatic event of her life, but also admits that it is much easier without them. (Ranald Mackechnie / Guinness World Records)


227 shirts were worn by Jeff Van Dyck at the Unizo event in Brecht, Belgium on April 24, 2008. (Guinness World Records)


Harry Turner from the UK can stretch his stomach skin up to 15.8 centimeters, all because of his Ehlers-Danlos syndrome - a connective tissue disorder that affects the skin, ligaments and internal organs.
This disease affects collagen, which strengthens the skin and determines its elasticity, which leads to weakening of the skin and increased joint mobility.
In more serious cases, it can be fatal due to ruptured blood vessels. (Ranald Mackechnie / Guinness World Records)


1,911 – exactly how many bottles of Mentos soda were collected in one place, namely in Latvia by students high school business TURIBA June 19, 2008.


The largest jicama weighs 21 kg and was grown by Leo Sutisna in West Java, Indonesia. (Guinness World Records)


The largest collection of LEGO Star Wars clones consisted of 35,310 individual models and was compiled by LEGO in Slough, UK on June 27, 2008. (Guinness World Records)


The oldest person to bungee jump is Helmut Wirtz.
Wirtz was 83 years, 8 months and 7 days old when he bungee jumped in Duisburg, Germany on August 9, 2008. (Guinness World Records)


The largest collection of watches belongs to Jack Shoff from the USA, who collected 1094 watches on June 17, 2008. (Guinness World Records)


A new record was set on January 23, 2009 by Wim Hof ​​from the Netherlands - he spent 1 hour 42 minutes 22 seconds completely buried in the snow. (John Wright/Guinness World Records)


The largest chalk drawing measured 8,361.31 meters and was drawn by 5,578 children from schools in Alameda, California, for a special children's project from May 27 to June 7, 2008. (Guinness World Records)


Record for the most driving fast on rear wheel motorcycle while riding the handlebars was achieved by Enda Wright in York, UK, on ​​July 11, 2006 and was 173.81 kilometers per hour. (Guinness World Records)


The most long skis in the world are 534 meters in length. These skis were used by 1,043 skiers at the event in Sweden on September 13, 2008. (Jonas Borg/Guinness World Records)


The oldest table tennis player is Dorothy de Lowe.
She was 97 years old when she represented Australia at the 14th World Cup. table tennis among veterans in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 25, 2008. (Guinness World Records)


The Snake Boat from Aleppey, Kerala, India is 43.7 meters long.
Her crew consists of 143 people, including 118 oarsmen, 2 drummers, 5 helmsmen and 18 singers.
The boat appeared in public in Kerala, India, on May 1, 2008. (Guinness World Records)


The highest speed on a skateboard in a standing position was 113 km per hour.
This record was set by Douglas da Silva in Rio Grande do Sulla, Brazil, on October 20, 2007. (Guinness World Records)


The largest gathering of Santa Clauses took place in Guilhall Square in Derry, Northern Ireland, on December 9, 2007 and amounted to 13,000 people. (Guinness World Records)


PAV1 Badger, created by Howe and Howe Technologies, became the smallest armored vehicle, being only 1 meter wide.
It's strong enough to blow down doors, but small enough to fit in an elevator. It was ordered by the California Public Defenders Service. (Guinness World Records)


Halapi Roland from Hungary set an unusual record on November 12, 2008: a horse dragged the burning Roland 472.8 meters. (Guinness World Records)


The highest speed of the lawnmower was 98 km per hour.
The record was set by Tommy Passemante from the USA in Miller Park in Utah on November 18, 2008, specially for the MTV show “Nitro Circus”. (Nate Christenson/Guinness World Records)


Japanese Kenichi Ito entered the Guinness Book of Records as the person who ran 100 meters on all fours the fastest - in just 18.58 seconds.
The record was set in Tokyo on November 13, 2008. (Guinness World Records)


The longest distance a person has traveled on a bicycle without touching the ground for exactly 24 hours is 890.2 km.
The record holder was Marko Balo from Slovenia on September 6-7, 2008. (Guinness World Records)


Sarwan Singh's beard from Canada measured 2.33 meters from the tip of his chin to the tip of his beard.
The record was recorded on November 11, 2008. (Guinness World Records)


Ashrita Fuhrman broke 80 eggs on his head in one minute at the Panorama Cafe in New York on December 10, 2008. (Guinness World Records)


The longest ears of a dog reach 34.9 cm on the right and 34.2 cm on the left. The ears belong to Tigger, a bloodhound owned by Brian and Christina Flessner of Illinois. (Ranald Mackechnie / Guinness World Records)


Indian Anthony Victor has hair growing from his ears, the length of which reaches 18.1 cm. (Guinness World Records)


The space cowboy, also known as Chain Hultgren from the show "Lo Show Dei Record", set a world record on April 25, 2009 in Milan: he pulled 411.65 kilograms using only his eye sockets. (Guinness World Records)


The heaviest vehicle that a person moved 30.48 meters weighed 57,243 kg.
Kevin Fast from Canada brought it to the TV show “Live with Regis & Kelly” in New York on September 15, 2008. (Ranald Mackechnie / Guinness World Records)


The largest edible hamburger weighs 74.75 kg and costs $399 on the menu at Malley's Bar and Grill in Southgate, Michigan. This yummy was made on August 29, 2008. (Ranald Mackechnie / Guinness World Records)


Victor "Lary" Ramos Gomez (pictured) and Gabriel "Danny" Gomez (both from Mexico) are two members of a five-generation family who suffer from a rare condition called congenital hypertrichosis, characterized by increased facial and body hair.
Women in the family are lightly haired, while men have hair covering approximately 98% of their body, excluding the palms and soles of their feet. (John Wright/Guinness World Records)


Ilrek Yilmaz of Turkey squeezed 279.5 cm of milk out of his eyes at the Armada Hotel in Istanbul, Turkey on September 1, 2004. (John Wright/Guinness World Records)


Mike Howard from Great Britain walked along the beam between two balloons at an altitude of 6,522 meters near Somerset, UK, September 1, 2004.
This feat was filmed for the television show Guinness World Records: 50 Years of 50 Records. (Guinness World Records)


The heaviest apple weighed 1,849 grams. He was raised by Hisato Iwasaki on his farm in Hirosaki, Japan. The apple was picked on October 24, 2005. (Guinness World Records)


On July 7, 2006, the smallest horse was Tambelina, a diminutive bay mare measuring 44.5 cm at the withers, owned by Kay and Paul Gossling of St. Louis, Missouri.
Radar - a Belgian draft horse - on July 27, 2004, was 19 hands without hooves. Radar lives on the farm of Priefert Manufacturing Inc. in Texas.
The horses were photographed together for the Guinness Book of Records on September 3, 2006. (Richard Bradbury/Guinness World Records)


Bigfoot 5 is 4.7 meters tall, its wheels reach 3 meters in height, and this miracle weighs 17,236 kg.
This is one of 17 Bigfoot Jeeps built by Bob Chandler of St. Louis, Missouri.
This model was built in the summer of 1986. The car is "parked" in St. Louis and occasionally appears at city events. (Richard Bradbury/Guinness World Records)


He Pingping from Mongolia - the smallest person in the world (his height is 74.61 cm) - stands between the legs of Svetlana Pankratova - a woman with the most long legs.
Pankratova’s legs are officially 131.83 cm.
Svetlana says she loves being the woman with the longest legs, but that comes with its downsides—it's not easy to find a man who enjoys being with such a tall woman. (Andy Rain/EPA)


Michael Jackson impersonator Hector Jackson performs with hundreds of people at the Monument to the Revolution in Mexico City on August 29, 2009.
The Guinness Book of World Records recorded 13,597 people dancing simultaneously in Jackson's style. (Dario Lopez-Mills/AP)


Kim Goodman from the USA can protrude her eyes 11 mm out of her sockets. This record was recorded on the Guinness World Records Primetime TV show in Los Angeles on June 13, 1998. (Drew Gardner/Guinness World Records)


Participants in the biggest pie fight at the ABC studios in New York on September 17, 2009 during the show “Live with Regis & Kelly.” (Afton Almaraz/AP)


himself tall man in the world, Sultan Kosen from Turkey is measured by representatives of the Guinness Book of Records on September 21, 2009.
Kosen's height is 246.38 cm. Sultan Kosen, 27, says he is "proud and happy" to bear the title of the tallest person and man in the world.
“Before this, I had a pretty difficult life,” says the giant, whose height was the result of a pituitary gland disease. “Now my life will be much easier.” (Seth Wenig/AP)


Great Dane Gibson was the tallest dog in the world. His height was 107.18 cm from floor to shoulder, and on his hind legs he reached 2.19 meters.
In this photo, Gibson plays with his friend Zoey, a 19-centimeter Chihuahua. The tallest dog in the world died of bone cancer on August 12, 2009. (Deanne Fitzmaurice/EPA)


The greatest underwater depth at which a person has ridden a bicycle is 66.5 meters.
This was done by Vittorio Innocente in Santa Margherita Ligur, Liguria region, Italy, July 21, 2008. (John Wright/Guinness World Records)


93% of Isobel Varley's body is covered in tattoos. An absolute record among the elderly. (John Wright)
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Jessica Chastain set a record for being able to go a long time without blinking on the Spanish TV show El Hormiguero (“The Anthill”). The actress was able to continuously keep her eyes open for a very long time, not only breaking the previous program record set by actress Margaret Qualley (1 minute 14 seconds), but also setting the bar much higher - at 2 minutes and 1 second.

IN last years Jessica Chastain is one of the most sought-after actresses in Hollywood. She was twice nominated for an Oscar and in 2012 won a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama for her role in the thriller Zero Dark Thirty.

On January 6, Chastain tweeted that she had become the new record holder of a Spanish program in which guests are asked to try not to blink for as long as possible. According to her, this achievement was not easy for her.

The actress's tweet also included a link to a video clip in which she takes on the Anthill challenge and stands for two minutes with her eyes open. At first, she simply opens her eyes wide and silently looks at the camera with a calm expression on her face, but already at the twentieth second she admits that the task is not so simple.

It's getting a little complicated!

Another ten seconds later, Jessica asks the hosts if she's up to the task. They encourage her, but the actress’s face shows that she is trying her best not to lose concentration.

Then Chastain tries to show fun and enthusiasm, but she does not succeed for long: from the tension, her former serious appearance returns.

Soon tears begin to flow down Jessica's face - first from her right and then from her left eye. But the presenters are already shouting joyfully that she lasted a whole minute! Margaret Qualley's record is only a short distance away.

The actress endures the remaining few seconds decisively and confidently as the presenters count down. The old record for the Spanish show has been broken, and the only question is what the new one will be.

After this, Jessica noticeably relaxes: she begins to smile more and partially wipes away her tears. Chastain eventually states that he will wait for the round mark on the clock before blinking.

I'll wait until two minutes! I want no one to be able to get around me for a long time!

However, we may never know how long the actress can go without blinking. Towards the end she relaxes even more, and when the presenters announce that two minutes have passed, she closes her eyes joyfully, but it doesn’t look like she was holding on with all her might.

Jessica Chastain breaks the record of 2 minutes without blinking. pic.twitter.com/Elcwij1mN2

Jessica's record has impressed a variety of people, from director Charlie McDowell to comic book writer Jimmy Palmiotti (who, of course, called it a superpower).

Many of us dream of setting a world record. Who wouldn't want to break the world record for blowing the world's largest bubble gum bubbles or have the world's largest collection of traffic cones? But some record holders never planned or did not want to set any records.

1. Be transported to a tornado at a further distance and survive

Matt Suter was a 19 year old graduate high school, when a storm hit his hometown of Fordland, Missouri on March 12, 2006. That Sunday, Suter was in his grandmother's trailer with his grandmother and disabled uncle. As gusts of wind and rain hit the trailer, Suter stood on the couch trying to close the window, wearing only shorts.

At that moment, Suter heard a roar. “It got louder and louder, like ten military planes were flying straight at us,” he said. The back and front doors of the trailer were blown out, and the walls, floor and ceiling began to move “like jelly.” The trailer began to tip over and the walls began to collapse. After this, the lamp hit Suter on the head and he fell unconscious. As his grandmother saw, Suter's limp body was pulled out straight into the vortex.

It was an F2 category tornado, and it carried Suter 398.37 meters - the length of four football fields. He woke up in a field alive and unharmed, except for a small wound on his head. Miraculously, his grandmother and uncle also survived the destruction of their trailer, but were buried under heavy furniture. Suter’s record-breaking flight is not the first: in 1999, in Oklahoma, a girl survived when a tornado threw her 30 meters. In South Dakota, a girl and her pony survived a 1,000-foot ride on a tornado in 1955.

2. The most fertile parents

There is a reality show that shows how the Duggar family from Arkansas survives with their 19 children. But how can you live with 87 children? No matter how strange the number may seem, this record is recorded in “” for Fyodor Vasilyev, an 18th-century peasant from Shuya near Moscow. Fedor and his two wives gave birth to 22 pairs of twins, nine times triplets and four times quadruplets.

Vasiliev was born around 1707 and became a father for the first time at the age of 18. Four years later they stopped. He said that all but two of the children survived infancy, a remarkable number for the time. And when asked at the ripe old age of 75, all of his 84 children were still alive. His fertility was so extreme that he was summoned to St. Petersburg to meet with Empress Catherine II.

Who is the most fertile mother? This is Fedor's first wife. But no one seems to care about her name because it hasn't been found, which is a shame, of course, because she deserves a much better reward than her husband. She eventually experienced 27 pregnancies and 69 births. Fyodor's second wife - also unknown - experienced only eight pregnancies and 18 births.

3. The heaviest people

It probably won't surprise anyone that the heaviest men and women ever recorded are Americans. Of all countries in 2012, the United States has the highest percentage - 34% - of obesity.

John Brower Minnoch from Washington state weighed 135 kg at the age of 12 years. His weight steadily increased until it peaked at 635 kg in 1978. That March, he suffered from heart and respiratory failure and it took 12 firefighters to transport him to University Hospital in Seattle. He was diagnosed with severe dropsy, and the doctor estimated that he had 400 kg of accumulated fluid. Minnoch was in the hospital for two years, lying on two beds pushed together. It took 13 people to turn it over.

While in hospital, Minnoch married a woman named Jeanette and, as she weighed only 50kg, they set the record for the couple with the largest weight difference. He was put on a 1,200-calorie diet and by the time he was discharged in 1980, he had lost 419 kg, the most weight loss ever recorded. But it took a serious toll on his body and he died in 1983 at the age of 41.

The Guinness Book of World Records entry for the heaviest woman goes to Rosalie Bradford from Florida, who reached a peak weight of 544 kg. Like Minnoch, Bradford struggled with obesity all her life, but that was before she got married and had a child, causing her weight to skyrocket. She was so depressed that she tried to kill herself with painkillers, but due to her weight, the pills simply made her fall asleep for a few days.

After she contacted weight loss guru Richard Simmons, she went on a diet and started an exercise program. At the beginning, the exercises consisted of clapping your hands. In the first year she lost 190 kg, and in total she lost 317 kg - a record weight lost by a woman. In 1992, she weighed 136 kg, received a degree in psychology and began traveling around the country giving motivational speeches. She died in 2006 at the age of 63.

4. Largest number and size of kidney stones

By December 2009, 45-year-old Dhanraj Vadile, a store owner in Shahada, India, had been living with severe abdominal pain for six months. Dr Ashish Ravandale-Patil determined that Vadile was suffering from kidney stones. Using an endoscope and a scalpel, Dr Patil spent four hours removing 172,155 calcium oxalate and phosphate stones, ranging in size from a millimeter to 2.5 cm, all from Vadile's left kidney.

Dr. Patil's team counted the stones for a month. When finished, they sent the stones to Guinness for confirmation. Of course, Vadile's feat was recorded in the book, breaking the previous record of 14,098 stones removed from one patient.

The lucky record holder of the largest stone is also from India - 37-year-old police officer Vilas Guge from Mumbai. In February 2004, Guge had a stone, which was 13 cm in diameter, surgically removed. Usually the stones are no more than 9 cm in diameter. There is another contender: in 2009, a Hungarian named Sandor Sarkadi had a 1.13 kg stone, which was the size of a coconut, removed.

5. Survive a car accident at the highest speed

Donald Campbell holds eight world speed records on land (RSZ) and on water (RSV). He is still the only person to break both types of records in one year. But on September 16, 1960, he set a record he didn’t expect.

Donald was the only son of Sir Malcolm Campbell, racing pioneer and holder of 13 speed records(nine on land and four on water). Shortly after his father's death, Donald learned that an American was going to beat his father's RSV and decided that he needed to hold the banner of his family. In the 1950s Campbell steadily raised his RSV from 257 to 418 km/h. He constantly compared his success with his father's and often asked his best friend whether Sir Malcolm would be proud of him. And in 1960, young Campbell took the RSZ, which once broke his father's record.

John Cobb / © www.motorsportretro.com

This record speed was 634 km/h, set by Briton John Cobb. Cobb also set records on land and water, and in 1952 he died trying to break Donald's record. Donald was confident that his Bluebird CN7 could be pushed to 643 km/h, and he was on his sixth test run at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah when he lost control at 586 km/h. The Bluebird's structural strength saved his life on that fateful day of September 16, 1960, but he suffered a skull fracture and a ruptured eardrum.

Campbell raced again a few months later, but it was not until 1964 that the Bluebird achieved the 648.5 km/h record. He turned his gaze back to the water and died on January 4, 1967, when he lost control of his Bluebird K7 at more than 300 mph. His body remained at the bottom of Coniston Water until 2001.

6. Longest time spent on a medical gurney in a hospital hallway

The Guinness Book of World Records introduced a new category when Tony Collins, a 40-year-old Briton, reported that he lay on a gurney for 77 hours and 30 minutes. Collins is a diabetic and contracted a virus that sent him to Princess Margaret Hospital in Swindon, England, on Saturday February 24, 2001. He was told he would have to wait for a hospital bed and was left on a gurney parked outside the bathroom at three o'clock in the afternoon.

“My back hurt, I had no privacy, and I had to rely on the nurses to bring me something to drink because there was nowhere to put a jug.”

In the end. They found a room for him at 8:30 pm - on Tuesday.

Ironically, while Guinness was studying Collins' application, he fell ill again and returned to hospital. This time he lay on the gurney for 60 hours. Regarding his record, he said:

“Unfortunately, this is likely to be a record that changes every day in the NHS.”

He was referring to the National Health Service, the health care system funded by the British government.

Collins' predictions turned out to be true: in March 2013, 62-year-old Herbert Edwards was admitted to the Great Western Hospital, also in Swindon, with a suspected heart attack. He waited for a room on a gurney for six days, a total of 144 hours. He, however, did not break Collins' record because he was in a specially designated area instead of a corridor. At the same hospital, 41-year-old June Rogers waited 157 hours for a bed, 88 of them on a gurney. She also didn't break Collins' record because her hours on the gurney were not consecutive.

7. Amputations on the same arm

Some records are unlikely to be repeated, not only because no one will want to break them, but also because of the controversy that the record holder created. Clint Hallam's three arm amputations are just such a record.

Hallam's first amputation came in 1984, when he was jailed at Christchurch Rolleston prison for fraud in his native New Zealand. The circular saw cut him off right hand above the wrist. Surgeons replaced the limb, but it became infected and was amputated again in 1988.

Ten years later, Hallam was offered the opportunity to receive the first hand transplant. He was sent to Lyon, France, where the late French motorcyclist's arm was successfully reattached. Hallam later said that he hated the new hand from the very beginning:

“The donor's hand was larger than mine, bald and pink. My skin has an olive tint, and there is hair on it. She didn't fit."

During his recovery, Hallam fell in love with his French nurse and left his wife of 12 years and children. “Marty (the nurse) is the only good thing the surgeons gave me,” Hallam said. “Besides her, I received nothing.”

Hallam lost contact with his doctors and stopped taking his anti-rejection medication. Inevitably, his body rejected the arm, and it had to be amputated a third time in 2001. The medical world and its French surgeon were saddened by the waste of the donor hand. Hallam asked for another transplant in 2002 but has yet to receive one.

8. Most broken bones

Since he jumped into last time In 1977, Robert Craig Knievel, known as Evel Knievel, had 150 motorcycle jumps from ramp to ramp over various obstacles. He crashed or failed on 18 of those jumps. As a result, he suffered more than 433 fractures on 35 different bones - a world record. He broke his skull, his nose, his jaw, both collarbones, both arms, both wrists, his chest bone, every rib and his back five times. In addition, he broke both ankles, some toes, his right shin, right knee, tailbone, left hip and fractured his pelvis three times.

When did his first one happen? serious injury, he hasn't even driven a motorcycle yet. In February 1966, Knievel tried to jump over a speeding motorcyclist. He jumped too late and was hit in the groin, throwing him 4.5 meters. A much worse accident occurred on December 31, 1967, when he tried to jump over the fountain at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, a distance of 43 meters. He jumped over the fountain, but landed poorly, knocking over the handlebars of his motorcycle and sliding across the parking lot. His top part his legs and pelvis were shattered, he broke his hip, wrist, both ankles and suffered a concussion that put him in a coma for 29 days.

Stopping jumping did not stop hospital visits. A fall on the golf course was followed by a hip replacement. Knievel fell into his own pool twice, breaking his ribs and knee. He underwent a liver transplant in 1999 after alcohol killed his own. Towards the end of his life, he wore a pump on his stomach that delivered morphine and synthetic heroin directly to his spine. He died on November 30, 2007 from pulmonary fibrosis.

9. Survive deadly incidents in one day

Dosha, a 10-month-old pit bull mix living with her owner in Clearlake, California, had a very bad day on April 15, 2003. That morning, she jumped over a fence to escape her yard and was then hit by a pickup truck. When police arrived, Doshi had glassy eyes and a limp. Believing the dog was mortally wounded, the officer shot it in the head just below its right eye to end its suffering. Animal control arrived and placed what they thought was a dead body in a plastic bag. They brought Dosha to the dog pound and placed him in a freezing chamber. Two hours later the employee opened freezer and saw Dosha sitting, and she was still in the bag.

The officer's bullet traveled along Dosha's skull - narrowly missing her brain - and lodged in the skin under her jaw. The dog also suffered hypothermia, but did not suffer any broken bones after the initial incident. The bullet fragments were recovered, but she had some degree of hearing loss in her right ear. Because Dosha managed to escape death three times, Guinness called her the luckiest dog in the world.

10. The hardest thing to kill

Since they don't want people competing for this record, Guinness doesn't have a special category for it. But if they do, they will become winners. Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin is a man who, one frantic night, was poisoned, shot three times, castrated and thrown into a frozen river before he died. But the record holder is undoubtedly Michael Malloy.

Malloy was a 50-year-old Irish immigrant living in New York City in January 1933. He used to be a firefighter, but is now homeless and an alcoholic. Five acquaintances made a plan to take away three insurance policies and kill him. One of the conspirators owned a bar that sold illegal booze, and he gave Malloy unlimited credit in the hopes that he would drink himself to death. But even though Malloy spent virtually every waking moment exercising his elbow, he did not die.

Frustrated, the bartender, another conspirator, replaced Malloy's whiskey with antifreeze. Malloy had six drinks before passing out - but he didn't die. For a whole week, Malloy drank nothing but antifreeze. Then there was turpentine. Behind it was liquid horse ointment mixed with rat poison. When raw oysters pickled in wood alcohol failed to kill him, the conspirators tried spoiled sardines sprinkled with nails on him. Malloy returned a few seconds later.

One night the temperature dropped to -25°C, and the conspirators threw Malloy into a snowdrift and poured water on his bare chest. When that didn't work, another conspirator hit Malloy with his taxi, sending the unfortunate man flying like a rag doll. Then the conspirator ran over Malloy for backup. After this, Malloy went to the hospital for three weeks, but returned to the bar, complaining:

"I'm dying for a drink."

In the end, they waited until Malloy passed out, inserted a rubber hose into his mouth and released the gas. An hour passed before Malloy's face turned red and he finally gave up his life.

The conspirators would have gotten away with it, but they argued about the money received loudly enough for the police to get wind of the scheme. They were tried, and four of the five conspirators were executed in the electric chair. They all died on the first try.

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