From Firm Handshakes and The Hot Dog Man here are 19 World Records You Probably Never Heard of. Have you broken a world record? Subscribe for weekly wacky videos and learn interesting facts about the world with awesome top 10 lists and other amazing videos. 10. Giant Flavor Peter Glazebrook holds the heaviest onion world record. Glazebrook, from Nottinghamshire, England, is known as a giant vegetable grower. He’s also broken the record for world’s largest cauliflower, carrot, and heaviest potato. 9. Snow Body This image became famous after Jin Songhao won the title of longest time spent in direct and full body contact with Snow. Here he is eating a meal while submerged up to his chest in snow, because even when you’re busy breaking some of the most random world records, you should never forget your nutrition. Songhao holds the record at 46 minutes and seven seconds. 8. Firm Handshakes Longest handshake world record was once held by Lindsay Morrison and Jack Tsonis. Here they are pictured with Hulk Hogan for some reason in the midst of their record breaking moment, which lasted at 12 hours, 34 minutes, 56 seconds. They only held the record for less than a month when George Posner and John-Clark Levin from California took the title. The category first was set in 2008 by two friends, Kevin Whittaker and Cory Jens, from Iowa. As of 2011, the record was tied by two teams: one from New Zealand and one from Nepal. The four share the record at 33 hours 3 minutes. 7. Bearded Beauty Harnaam Kaur holds the youngest female with a full beard for the Guinness World Record as of 2017. Kaur, who has polycystic ovary syndrome, has a symptom that allows excessive hair growth. She could easily shave off or wax off her facial hair. But Kaur does not wish to conform to conventional beauty standards. 6. Jumping Llama Caspa the Llama holds the record for highest bar jump cleared by a llama at 1.13 meters as of 2017. The 9 year old llama lives in Wales and used to not like being around people. However, he is very close to his owner Sue Williams. 5. The Hot Dog Man In 2016, a man known as Marcus “Hot Dog Man” Daily set the world record for largest hot dog cart for the Guinness World Records. The cart pictured here with his hot dog vending crew measures to 2.81 m wide, 3.72 high, and 7.06 m long. Daily resides in Missouri where his cart and business are run in a plaza. 4. Egg Balancing Brian Spotts is known as a world record egg balancer. Yup, that’s a thing. It sounds silly, but you also have to keep in mind how hard it is to even balance one egg, which Spotts says takes an average person about 5 to 10 minutes to do. Spotts takes it to another level. When he was in college, he set the world record for fastest time to balance a dozen eggs, and went on to balance 1,290 of em in 2003 in a group world record. In 2015, Spotts held the world record for most eggs balanced in a minute while blindfolded. You might have seen him before as he’d made appearances on America’s Got Talent, CCTV’s Guinness World Record Show, and a couple editions of Ripley’s Believe It or Not. 3. Apple Biceps She goes by the stage name, Mam Lou, but her real name is Lindsey Lindbergh and she holds the world record most apples crushed with one bicep by a female. Her story sounds like something out of a fairytale. She used to work at an accounting firm, but gave up a well-paying job to join the circus. She’s a religious studies graduate from Texas who moved to New York afterward. She searched for a niche in her new field of work and found that strength was her biggest strength 2. Triple Threat Why just break one world record category? Andre Ortloff holds 3 different world records. The world record breaker is from Ausburg, Germany and has won the title for “farthest distance to blow a pea, fastest 100m dash in clogs and ski boots. Of the 3 records, Ortloff says running clogs was the most challenging. Dragged by Fire Josef Todtling from Austria holds the world record for longest distance pulled by a horse while completely on fire. He’s gotten as far as 500 meters. Don’t worry, though. Todtling is a professional stuntman who’s done over 49 movies, so you might’ve caught a glimpse of him doing stunt work on an action movie.
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