For centuries, doctors and anthropologists have studied the human body, so today scientists know a lot about the work of muscles and the maximum load that the human body is able to withstand.
Naturally, there is a certain limit of physical possibilities, which, it would seem, can not be overcome. But, contrary to all reasonable explanations, a person constantly proves that he is capable of more. Take, for example, the super abilities that can occur in extreme situations, when a person faces a deadly danger or is in a state of intense emotional arousal. In such cases, manifestations of abnormal force are possible, when an individual can perform actions that are not imaginable in the ordinary state, for example, can lift a car with his bare hands. But in this article we will not limit ourselves only to the superpower: people from time immemorial made a lot of crazy acts, like, for example, an eccentric who tried to conquer Everest in one shorts, or a teenager, who by coincidence kept for 18 days without food or water, or a person who ate the plane.
1. Airplane on a string
The Canadian athlete Kevin Fast held out a military transport aircraft weighing 188.83 tons at a distance of 8.8 m at the base of the Canadian Air Force in Trenton on September 17, 2009.
2. The machine on the head
John Evans, who is known for holding various heavy objects on his head, was able to hold a 159 kg mini Cooper in 1999 for 33 seconds. Of his other exploits, remember how he balanced with 101 bricks or 235 pints of beer on his head.
3. Hooked by the ear ... a helicopter
Lasha Pataria from Georgia earned a place in the Book of Records, dragging a military helicopter weighing 7734 kg, hooked the cable for his left ear. So he moved the Mi-8 to 26 m 30 cm. Interestingly, his right ear is as strong?
4. 50 marathons in 50 days
American supermarathonist Dean Carnazes ran 50 marathons in 50 states for 50 days in a row, calling it 50/50/50. Starting in the Lewis and Clark marathon in St. Louis on September 17, 2006, he finished in New York on November 5, 2006. After finishing the series of marathons, the tireless Forrest Gump decided to save on transportation and return home to San Francisco for his two , and also running.
5. The Spider-Man
The French climber and urban alpinist Alan Robert, nicknamed "Spiderman", is known for the fact that without insurance and equipment he climbs alone to the highest skyscrapers of the world. Restless Robert visited the peak of the highest building on earth - Burj Khalifa (828 m) in Dubai, climbed the Eiffel Tower, visited the roof of the Sydney Opera House, crossed 88 floors to climb the Petronas Tower in Kuala Lumpur, and climbed the Chicago skyscraper Willis Tower.
6. Man-lightning rod
Caretaker of the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia Roy Cleveland Sullivan, nicknamed "lightning-man", was in the Book of Records after experiencing seven lightning strikes from 1942 to 1977, although people usually do not experience even one. You do not even know how to call it a lucky or a loser.
7. On the rope above Niagara
The owner of nine Guinness World Records, American acrobat, equilibrist, stuntman and tightrope walker Nicholas Wallenda is known primarily as the first person to cross the Niagara Falls on a rope. This happened on June 15, 2012. Two years of training were spent primarily on bureaucratic formalities obtaining permits from the US and Canadian authorities, but even after that, Walland was given mandatory conditions for the transition with insurance, and for the first time in his life had to use it. But he compensated for the lack of adrenaline a year later, when on the air of Discovery for the first time in history he walked over the Grand Canyon - this time without any insurance.
8. Record on the holding of breath under the water
Since February 28, 2016 belongs to the professional Spanish freediver Alex Segura Vendrell. After he breathed a few minutes of pure oxygen, Vendrell lay down on the water and stayed in that position for a record 24 minutes and 3.45 seconds! The time was officially recorded in the Guinness Book and became the new absolute record on the holding of breath under the water.
9. The longest wakefulness
In 1964, Randy Gardner, a student from San Diego, California, set a world record for staying awake, keeping awake 264.4 hours, which was 11 days and 24 minutes. Resting after a grueling record, Gardner fully recovered his strength, and, as noted by psychologists and psychiatrists who examined the student, prolonged wakefulness had no effect on him.
10. The longest ice bath
Danish stuntman Wim Hof nicknamed "ice" has 20 records, including the longest stay in the ice bath. In 2011, he broke his own record, after sitting in an ice bath for 1 hour 52 minutes and 42 seconds.
11. The highest jump in water
In August 2015, 27-year-old Lazaro ("Lazo"), Scheller got into the Guinness Book, setting a record for height in the jump from the springboard and simultaneously from the rock. Fearless stuntman jumped into a small lagoon in the Swiss Alps from a height of 58.8 m, which is above the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
12. The Conquest of a Giant Wave
American surfing extreme Garrett McNamara is famous for fearlessly rushing to the highest waves on his surfboard. In January 2013, he broke his previous record, having conquered a 30-meter wave off the coast of Portugal.
13. Ability in Mathematics
Daniel Tammet, an English writer, essayist and translator, suffers from the Savant Syndrome, which manifests itself in his unique talent for mathematical calculations, phenomenal memory and outstanding linguistic abilities (Tammet speaks 10 languages). His mathematical synesthesia is manifested in the fact that Tammet differently senses every positive number to 10,000, they appear to him of different colors, shapes and textures. Tammet set a record, transferring from memory 22514 signs of pi number for 5 hours and 9 minutes.
14. The longest dry hunger strike
In April 1979, the 18-year-old Austrian Andreas Michavets spent 18 terrible days without food and water in the pretrial detention facility, where he was placed as an accomplice in a road incident. The cell was in the basement, and the three policemen who were supposed to look after the arrested man completely forgot about him and did not hear the cries for help. After accidental rescue, losing 24 kilos, Andreas entered the Book of Records for the longest stay without food and water.
15. Hero Rescuer
Armenian athlete, multiple world champion, Europe and the USSR in the discipline of "scuba diving" Shavarsh Karapetyan saved 20 people, pulling them out of a trolley that fell into the Yerevan Lake. A trolleybus with 92 passengers sank at a depth of 10 m, and Karapetyan, who happened to be an incidental witness of the incident, rushed into the muddy water, smashed the glass and began pulling people to the surface. Shattered by the rubble of the glass, Karapetian was exhausted and weak with heavy pneumonia. For the nobility shown in saving people, the athlete was awarded the UNESCO "Fair Play" award.
16. Healingly buried for 10 days
In 2004 the Czech fakir and magician Zdenek Zahradka was buried for 10 days in a wooden coffin. All this time he was without food and water, and could breathe only through the vent pipe. For most of this insane experiment, Zahradka slept or meditated.
17. Without a parachute from a height of 10 km
Serbian stewardess Vesna Vulovich was included in the Guinness Book of Records as a man who fell from the highest height without a parachute. The plane in which Vulovic was flying exploded at an altitude of 10160 m, and she was the only survivor. Having received numerous fractures and fell into a coma for 27 days, Vulovich, however, was able to fully recover in a year and a half and continued to work in the airline.
18. The deepest immersion
Called "the deepest man on earth", the Austrian freediver Herbert Nitsch is the world champion in all eight disciplines of freediving. He set 69 world records, often competing with himself and beating his own achievements. The last record was set in June 2012 when immersed in an incredible 253.2 m.
19. Climber in shorts
In 2009, "ice" Wim Hof, the same one who set a record for staying in an ice bath, climbed Mount Kilimanjaro (5895 m above sea level) in one shorts. Two years earlier he had crossed 6.7 km of Everest, also dressed only in shorts and boots, but he could not reach the top due to a foot injury.
20. Cannonballs with bare hands
The Danish circus strongman of the 19th century. John Holtum, nicknamed "The King of the Cannonball," came up with a trick to catch a cannonball, which the assistant shot at him from a real gun. Unfortunately, the first rehearsal was unsuccessful - Holtum lost three fingers. However, later he managed to achieve considerable success and earn a comfortable old age.
21. The metal consuming
Known as Monsieur Mantzhtu ("Mr. Demeter-all"), French pop artist Michel Lotito is famous for his performances with eating things from inedible materials such as metal, glass, rubber, etc. Lotito dismantled the objects, cut them and ate bicycles , shopping carts from the store, TVs and even a Cessna-150 airplane. It is estimated that in the period 1959-1997 Lotito ate about nine tons of metal.
22. King of Torture
Tim Creedland, known under the stage name "King of Torture of Zamora", appears in the interludes, showing unusually painful numbers, including eating fire, swallowing swords, piercing the body and even electric shocks.
23. "Gutta-percha boy"
"Gutta-percha boy" Daniel Browning Smith, American acrobat, actor, TV presenter, comedian, sports entertainer and stuntman, is the title of the most flexible person in history. During one of his tricks, he sprained his hands to climb through the tennis racket, freed from the net.
24. The heaviest weight lifted by a man
Olympic champion, athlete and weightlifter American Paul Anderson in a jolt from the back was able to raise a record 2844.02 kg and get into the Guinness Book as the man who lifted the biggest weight in history. Perhaps he could have raised more, but only this attempt was officially recorded.