Christa Roberts - From Head to Toe: 100 Mind-Blowing Body Records from Around the World!

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GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS: AMAZING BODY RECORDS!. 2016 Guinness World Records Limited. The words GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS and related logos are trademarks of Guinness World Records Limited. All records and information accurate as of September 1, 2015. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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FIRST EDITION

Guinness World Records holders are truly amazing, but all attempts to set or break records are performed under controlled conditions and at the participants own risk. Please seek out the appropriate guidance before you attempt any record-breaking activities.

A nyone, anywhere, has the potential to be a record-breaker! For over 60 years, Guinness World Records (GWR) has timed, weighed, measured, verified, and documented thousands of achievements in every category that you can imagine. There are over 40,000 current records!

Record-breaking is free to do. If the GWR adjudicators (the official judges who confirm records) approve your idea for a new recordor if you can prove youve bettered an existing titleyoure on your way to becoming Officially Amazing!

Amazing Body Records! is the ultimate book about the ultimate machine: the human body. Youll meet people like Supatra Nat Sasuphan, the worlds hairiest teen; Lucky Diamond Rich, the most-tattooed man (he gets new tattoos on top of the old ones!); the planets loudest screamer and burper (yikes); and over 90 more amazing people whose unique talents and physical attributes have earned them a Guinness World Records title.

And who knows what you and your body can do! Maybe one day people will be reading about a new world record holder: YOU!

F rom braids to buzz cuts, blow-dries to crazy color combos, we put our hair to the test every day. But these record holders have taken their tresses, locks, and curls to totally new lengths and heights. Get ready to meet the hairiest family in the world, see a Mohawk spike that can touch the ceiling, and get the scoop about hair so strong it can pull a city bus!

American Aevin Jude Dugas has a big head of hair! Its no surprise that she won an Afro competition sponsored by a hair-care website. Thats when Aevins hair became the largest Afro (female) on record since March 31, 2012, measuring a fantastic 6.3 inches in height, 8.27 inches in width, and 4 feet, 7 inches in circumference. Aevin has been growing her hair for around 12 years. While she believes straight hair is beautiful, she decided that the pain and process of relaxing her hair wasnt something she wanted to go through. Photographs of her mother with an Afro also made her excited at the prospect of having equally large hair!

When Kazuhiro Watanabe of Japan walks through a doorway, he has to duck his head. Its not because hes unusually tallits his hair that reaches the sky! His hair was measured as the tallest Mohawk spike on October 28, 2011. When Kazuhiros long locks are styled in his trademark do, it measures a full four feet high, which is larger than the height of an average five-year-old boy. For another comparison, think of your favorite slice of pizzafive slices would equal the length of his hair! Kazuhiro is a designer in Japan, and he loves collecting vintage American clothing. Hes wanted to be a Guinness World Records holder for 20 years and it took six years to achieve this amazing goal!

Eric Hahns hair also reaches new heights. He set the record for the tallest full Mohican at 27 inches high on November 14, 2008.

Known as the Iron Man of Leicester, Manjit Singh is also known as something else: a multiworld record holder. His first record was set in 1987 for bench-pressing a weight of 56 pounds 1,035 times in one hourbut he wasnt content to stop there.

On November 11, 2009, Manjit pulled a double-decker bus almost 70 feet with his hair in Battersea Park, London, UKthe farthest distance to pull a bus with hair.

Manjit holds several records, all of which involve stamina. He says he enjoys setting records not only because they give him a sense of personal achievement, but because he has raised a lot of money for charity. In fact, he has raised thousands of dollars for worthy causes over the years.