The record for longest fingernails on a single hand is held by sridhar pillai from India. The longest nail is his thumbnail measuring 197.8 cm, which sridhar claims has caused permanant disfiguration to his fingers. Sadly, sridhar cut his nails on 2018 at the Ripley's believe it or not museum, where it is currently put on display.
Imagine cutting an Onion and making a whole town cry, that is exactly what this monstrosity is capable of. Weighing in at 8.5 kg Tony Glover of United Kingdom broke the world record for heaviest onion on 2014. On asked how he did it, Tony let out a chuckle and said "Just some sunlight and nutritious food".
Rolf Buchholz is the most pierced man in the world with a eye watering 453 piercings in his body. When the record was set in 2010, he had 8 piercings in his nose, 15 in his left ear, 16 in his right ear, 25 in his eyebrows, 2 in his tounge, 3 in his nipples, 8 on the rest of his body, 4 in his navel, 94 around his lips and a staggering 278 in the genital area.
Davinder Singh from India hit the headlines on August 2017 when he became the official record holder for the fastest time to type the given sentence using only his nose. For the record he had to type "Guinness World records have challenged me to type this sentence using my nose in the fastest time". He typed that in 40.19 seconds.
Joel strasser from United States set a new world record in 7th July 2018 by sticking a lot of toothpicks into his beard. On his attempt he said that the secret to doing this is not about having the biggest beard rather having the best technique. It took him approximately 3 hours to do it.
Ken Edwards became a over night celebrity when he munched down 36 cockroaches under one minute on live TV (The big breakfast) in 2001. Formerly a rat catcher and a part time entertainer, ken says that eating cockroaches is like having the back of your throat anaesthetised because of the scent they produce to fend off predators.
Sandeep Singh Kaila from Canada achieved what most people wouldn't even think of in their lifetime by spinning a basketball on a toothbrush for 1 minute and 13.90 seconds. He achieved this incredible feat ok June 2021, Sandeep says that he started seeing a lot of videos of spinning basketballs and realized he could do it too. He started practicing spinning basketballs and is focused on breaking other world records that involve spinning basketballs in the future.
Kirby Roy, a proclaimed combat expert took a 1100 lb kick straight to his groin in a way of demonstrating that he could control his pain. Roy claims that he has been kicked in the crotch for so many times to the point he only feels about 10% of the pain.
Gerad Jessie of Philippines hit the news in 2016 when he set the world record for blowing out the most number of candles using farts. We don't know what made him train to do that or what got him started, but blowing out five candles using only farts is quite impressive.
Topping the list of our weird records is Elisa Cagnoni from Italy. During the annual Ruttosound competition in 2009 Elisa managed to burp at 107 db, in comparison a motorcycle engine produces about 95 decibels. Today the competition attracts about 30,000 people, where each of the burpers compete for the best burper title.
