5. Most Concrete Blocks Broken While Holding A Raw Egg
Joe Alexander, a native of Germany can break twenty four blocks, all assembled in three stacks of eight. That should be impressive enough. Schools of martial art students try to break blocks all the time and fail to reach this milestone. Yet, the number isn’t the most impressive part. Alexander did this block breaking with a measure of care… specifically to his hands. You see, Alexander broke twenty four blocks with his elbow. Why his elbow? Because he was holding a raw egg in his hand, a raw egg mind you, that didn’t break. Oddly enough, this record breaking was even more impressive still as the previous record was a mere fourteen.
4. Most Insured Hair
Troy Polamalu, the Samoan Pittsburgh Steelers safety, is a bonafide megastar. With endorsement deals left and right, Polamalu is recognized as much from commercials as he is for his exploits on the gridiron. Yet, why, of all people, was Polamalu picked for these endorsements? Simply, the answer is his hair, his wild, free and very luxurious (for a football player at least) hair. In a sport where most players are slight varying shades of crew cut and bald, Polamalu sticks out like a sore thumb and as such was the subject of much talk. This talk, and subsequent endorsement deals, got Polamalu thinking of insurance, which he put on his famous hair, to the tune of one million dollars.
3. Longest Beard
If you aren’t careful, you might mistake Canada’s Sarwan Singh for a wizard. With a long, a very, very long beard flowing from his face, Singh is a bit of an oddity in his hometown. While long beards aren’t that out of the ordinary in a world where Hipsters have made them fashionable, Singh has gone the extra mile, growing his out to an astonishing seven feet, nine inches. This, despite that Singh himself is ‘only’ seven foot one inch tall. When your beard is longer than Shaq, you likely deserve a place on a list of bizarre world records, and Singh most certainly has that.
2. Longest Fingernails (On Both Hands)
After eighteen years, most people have had several hair styles, a few different dress styles and maybe even a whole makeover. For Chris ‘The Dutchess’ Walton, however, eighteen years has been a period of keeping things the same, most specifically her fingernails. At nineteen feet, nine inches long, her nails are mind-bogglingly long. The nail on her middle finger of her left hand is twenty two inches long alone.
1. Largest Commercially Available Hamburger
When you are really hungry and stopping at a fast food place, you might find yourself ordering two burgers, or maybe even three if the burger is light and the hunger is deep. There is a place in Corvallis, Oregon that you wouldn’t have to order two burgers to satisfy your hunger. In fact, neither you or an entire football team would likely ever want to even see another hamburger again after you polished off the masterpiece of Juicys Outlaw Grill. Their massive burger weighs in at an incredible seven hundred and seventy seven pounds and costs five thousand dollars! Don’t rush out to try it though, you have to call ahead with up to forty eight hours of preparation time needed to make the largest hamburger commercially available ready for mass consumption.