Heaviest vehicle pulled over a level 100 feet.

In this photo of the record holder for the heaviest vehicle pulled over a level 100 feet. The fire truck weighs 57,243kg (126,200lb).
I was torn between this photo and the record holder for the fastest 100 meter hurdle run  wearing swim fins. You can see those two and 12 other new records in this year's edition of the Guinness Book of World Records at The Guardian.

Dragging a ship for 6 meters with his teeth

Omar Hanapiev, a renowned strong man from the Russian town of Eisk has set a world record by dragging a ship for 6 meters with his teeth, the Regnum News Agency reports Wednesday.
According to a source from Krasnodar’s Regional Department of Resorts and Tourism Development, the sportsman dubbed “Iron teeth” pulled the vessel, with a load displacement of 2,200 tons, using a series of ropes,for a distance of 6 meters The feat took place in Eisk’s dockyard.

The multiple world record breaker claims to have beaten his own previous record. Nine years ago, in the fishing port of Makhachkala, Hanapiev dragged a 567-ton tanker, moving it from the shore into the sea for a distance of 15 meters.

The Hercules from Dagestan first demonstrated his unusual talent at the age of 10 when he used to pull out nails from a board with his teeth and bend horseshoes. However, he did not send an application to the Guinness Book of Records until he was 30. By then, he was already able to move a locomotive, a tanker and even a TU-134 airplane with his teeth.  

Gentleman wearing a beard of bees.

Not unlike this gentleman wearing a beard of bees, game designer Sid Meier has officially been entered into the arena of world records, according to Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition 2008. Through his famous studio, Firaxis Games, Meier has won more game awards than any other game designer.

Some highlights include being the second person ever inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences' Hall of Fame, induction into the Computer Museum of America's Hall of Fame, a star on the Walk of Game and a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2008 Game Developers' Choice Awards.

Longest finger nails in the world.

SALT LAKE CITY A Salt Lake City woman who was in Guinness World Records for her long fingernails has lost them in a car accident. Lee Redmond suffered serious injuries in the Tuesday crash.
Redmond was the current Guinness record holder, with nails that hadn’t been cut since 1979. Her nails measured a total of more than 28 feet long in 2008, with the longest nail — on her right thumb — stretching 2 feet, 11 inches, according to the Guinness Web site.
Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Lt. Don Hutson said Redmond was ejected from an SUV, the Deseret News reported Thursday on its Web site. Her injuries were not thought to be life-threatening.

Guinness title of tallest living.

Once held the Guinness title of tallest living person but refuses to be measured by the Guinness Book under new guidelines.

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Leonid Ivanovych Stadnyk (Ukranian) is a living man renowned for his stature. He was formerly listed as the world's tallest living man according to Guinness World Records. Craig Glenday editor-in-chief of Guineness World Records, harbingered that the title of world's tallest man had been returned to China's Bao Xishun after stadynk refused to be measured under new guidelines, last August 20, 2008, which required him to be independently measured by Guinness World Records arbitrators.

Guy Climbing without any Support.

In Jeff’s, words, “it was a beautiful day in Yosemite. Dean had a high line set up there that he measured as somewhere between 99 to 100 feet. He had walked the line leashed a few times when I saw him untying from the tether. I figured he was just taking a break. Instead, he stepped up to the line and started walking it with confidence and determination. It’s hard to imagine what it must feel like walking across a rope with over a thousand feet of air below, but it was obvious to me that Dean was exactly where he was supposed to be…”

Biggest Snake in the World

The world record for the largest snake in captivity is 48.8 feet or nearly 15 metres. This huge animal weights nearly half a ton. This Reticulated python was caught in Indonesia and is said to eat 3-4 dog’s per month, but could swallow something as big as a cow! 15 metres is about the same as 8-9 men lying down in a row! However amazingly this creature still weighs less than the worlds fattest man.

Most Cockroaches eaten by a man.

 Who:
Ken Edwards
Where:
London, UK
What:
36 cockroaches
When:
March 5, 2001



Ken Edwards of Glossop, Derbyshire, England ate 36 cockroaches in one minute on the set of The Big Breakfast, London, England on March 5, 2001.
Ken is a retired ratcatcher and part-time entertainer who first took to the stage at age 18, but his talent for carrying out bizarre stage acts was unveiled on the British TV show Over The Top when he was 39. Ken's 47 rats-down-the-trouser trick caused such a stir that he became a celebrity overnight! His friends and family are now used to his freaky acts and Ken says, "If I were to actually do something normal then they would react!"
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When Ken munches on his cockroaches, he says "It's like having an anesthetic at the back of the throat." This is due to the scent they let off to ward off predators! Tasty!
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Cockroaches have lived unchanged for more than 320 million years. They are among the oldest fossil insects and are also among the most primitive living, winged insects. If a nuclear war broke out cockroaches would be the only living creatures to survive!

FIVE FASCINATING COCKROACH FACTS
1. In Australia there is an annual Cockroach Racing Championship. The winning roach scoops a top prize of $500.
2. A cockroach has at least 18 knees!
3. It can live for a month without a head!
4. Female cockroaches are larger than males because they produce and carry their eggs.
5. A lobster is often called the cockroach of the sea since it is a scavenger.

World’s Longest Eyelashes

On 29 December 2009, a woman broke the Guinness world record as the woman with the longest eyelashes in the world. Yet, the proper information hasn’t gotten about that Chinese girl. According to sources, the growth of eyelashes is the result of side effect of the drug that she intake. By the side effect of drug, she looks like a freak now. After seeing her photos on the internet, some people are astonished regarding how she sees this beautiful world with long eyelashes! People are thinking that does she comb her eyelashes everyday and suggest that be careful that not heart her eyes and tie it with ribbon to look nice.

Guinness world record for Full Body Contact with Ice.

In this photo provided by Rubin Museum of Art, Wim Hof, of the Netherlands, stands up to his neck in ice for an hour and twelve minutes, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2008, outside the Rubin Museum of Art in New York, during a successful attempt to break his previous Guinness world record for immersion in an outdoor ice bath.

Wim Hof, nicknamed Liquidator, stunned his opportunity by stagnant in a translucent container filled with frostbitten element for 72 transactions on a Manhattan street Sat.

The 48-year old Dutchman said his buddhism meditation helped him live in the ice for so lengthened case as he could hold his body temperature with the tantrik training of tumo.

Guy with Amazing Strength.

Jordanian taekwondo instructor Mustafa Dasan breaks cement slabs with his elbow in a bid to enter the Guinness Book of World Records during a public show in Amman April 26, 2008. Dasan, 54 and father of six, on Saturday broke 5,000 kg of marble and cement bricks in one minute and sixteen seconds in the presence of Jordanian referees. In the same event, Mustafa also let another man operates a jackhammer on his stomach.

Artist's amazing illusion street art.

The apocalyptic scene may appear to be straight from a Hollywood disaster movie – but it is actually an amazing 3D-effect painting by artist Edgar Mueller. Edgar, 40, created the work – Lava Burst in Gelder – for a street painting contest in his native Germany.
An earlier piece saw him turn River Street in Moose Jaw, Canada, into a torrent and waterfall. He explained: “It’s a new artform that only a handful of people do worldwide. It tricks people’s eyes and shows them a new reality.”
Bet it’s quite an experience for motorists while Edgar’s road work is in progress. Guess that’s called being stuck in brush-hour traffic…

Giant stingray caught by British angler.

This giant stingray has smashed the world record for the biggest freshwater fish ever caught using a rod. British angler Ian Welch tussled with the monster ray for 90 minutes to secure it and then 13 men had to be recruited to heave it out of the water.The massive 55 stone (or 771 lbs) stingray is almost five times the weight of freshwater biologist Ian (11.5 stone). Its body was 7ft long and 7ft wide and its tail measured 10ft. Its lethal venomous barb had to be wrapped in cloth while it was out of the water.The previous world record was held by a 646 lbs catfish caught in 2005.
Ian was helping with a stingray tagging program in Thailand when he discovered the enormous specimen deep in the Maeklong River and used a Snake head fish as bait to snare it.
“It dragged me across the boat and would have pulled me in had my colleague not grabbed my trousers - it was like the whole earth had just moved. I knew it was going to a big one," the 45-year-old said.
"It buried itself on the bottom and the main fight was trying to get it off the floor.
"I tried with every ounce of power but it just would not budge. After half an hour my arms began shaking and after an hour my legs went.
"Another 30 minutes went by and then I put a glove on and physically pulled the line with gritted teeth and somehow I found the reserves to shift the fish."