Hardness: 8 Amazing World Records No One Would Want To Break

It is quite likely that someday in your life you have longed to become a world record holder in something. After all, anyone would like to be considered the fastest or strongest human being on the planet - or even the person who can blow the biggest gum balls. However, not every feat recorded in the Guinness book brings good memories to those directly involved.

Some world record holders have won their "titles" without ever having planned them - much less desired. Here are some of the records that surely no one will try to break on purpose, ranging from thrown by tornadoes and too many children to a dog day and the man who would envy Bruce Willis.

8 - The man who was thrown farther by a tornado and survived

Matt Suter was 19 and in his senior year of high school on March 12, 2006, when a storm hit his hometown of Fordland, Missouri. That Sunday night, the young man was with his disabled uncle and grandmother in her trailer when a gust of wind and rain fell on them.

Suter climbed onto a couch dressed only in his underwear to close a window and then heard a great noise that described "as if ten military jets were coming towards us." Then the front and rear doors were torn open, the walls, floor and roof of the trailer softened and a lamp fell from the ceiling knocked out the boy, who cannot hold back when his body was sucked by the whirlwind in front of his grandmother.

The F2 class tornado carried Suter for a distance of 398.37 meters, the length of four football fields, depositing him alive on a field without any injury except for a small bruise on the top of his head. Miraculously, her grandmother and uncle also survived the disintegration of the trailer thanks to heavy furniture that pinned them to the floor.

7 - The most prolific parents

It is not too difficult to feel sorry for unsuspecting parents who are suddenly overwhelmed by the arrival of triplets or couples who have to juggle their wages to support large families. Thus, it is almost impossible to imagine the dimension of work that involves raising 87 children.

As unlikely as that number is, Guinness cites an account in a contemporary newspaper about Feodor Vassilyev, a peasant from the Shuya district of Moscow, Russia, who lived in the 18th century. According to the text, the man and his two wives they would have given rise to 22 pairs of twins, 9 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets.

Vassilyev was born around 1707 and had his first children at the age of 18, only closing the “factory” when he was 40 years old. According to his account, only two of his descendants did not survive childhood, which is a surprising achievement at the time. At the time she was interviewed by the 75-year-old newspaper, 84 of her pups were still alive.

6 - The heaviest humans

Three for one

It should come as no surprise to anyone that both the heaviest man and woman in the world are from the United States, after all the country is the record for the highest percentage (34%) of obese people in 2013. Coming from Washington, Jon Brower Minnoch has ever weighed 135 kg at 12 years of age. His weight steadily increased until he peaked at 635 kg in 1978.

In March of that year, Minnoch suffered from cardiorespiratory failure and it took 12 firefighters to transport him to Seattle University Hospital. Once there, he was diagnosed with massive edema and the doctor estimated that he carried 400 kg of accumulated fluid. He remained in place for two years, lying on two beds tied together.

While there, Minnoch married a woman named Jeannette and, as she weighed only 50 kg, they beat the couple's record with the largest weight difference. The man was then put on a diet of just 1, 200 calories a day, and by the time he was discharged in 1980, he had lost 419 kg, which earned him his third highest weight loss record. The process, however, was expensive and he died in 1981.

The lap over

The heaviest woman recognized by Guinness is Rosalie Bradford of Florida. Like Minnoch, she battled obesity for her entire life, but it was after getting married and having a child that her weight skyrocketed and peaked at 544 kg. It made her so depressed that she tried to commit suicide by taking painkillers, but her mass was so great that the pills only put her to sleep for a few days.

After being contacted by weight loss guru Richard Simmons, Rosalie began a special diet and exercise program that initially consisted of just clapping. In one year she eliminated 190 kg and eventually achieved a total loss of 317 kg. In 1992, weighing 136 kg, she decided to go back to school, received training in psychology and began giving motivational speeches across the country. She died in 2006 at 63 years old.

5 - Survive the car crash faster

Donald Campbell was the only child of Sir Malcolm Campbell, a racer who had 13 speed records. Even after his father's death, the runner kept trying to continue his legacy, and on September 16, 1960, it nearly cost his life. At the time, another Briton named John Cobb had reached the 634 km / h mark, breaking the previous land speed record.

Aware that his Bluebird CN7 car could go over 643 km / h, Donald was in his sixth test race at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah when he lost control of the vehicle at 586 km / h. The strength of the automobile's structure saved his life, but did not prevent him from suffering a fractured skull and a ruptured eardrum.

He resumed racing a few months later, but it was not until 1964 that his car was able to set a record of 648.5 km / h. Donald then turned his eyes to the watermark and died on January 4, 1967, when his Bluebird K7 crashed at over 300 mph. His body remained at the bottom of Lake Coniston Water until it was found in 2001.

4 - Most single-arm hand amputations

Clint Hallan's first amputation took place in 1984 while he was incarcerated for fraud at Christchuch's Rollston Prison in New Zealand. At the time, a circular saw was used to cut his limb, which was replaced in place by surgeons, but became infected and had to be removed a second time in 1988.

Ten years later, Hallan was given the chance to be the first recipient in history for a hand transplant, receiving the member of a deceased French motorcyclist. However, he did not like his new hand and, after losing contact with his doctors, stopped taking his anti-rejection medication.

His body inevitably rejected the limb and he had to be amputated for the third time in 2001, leaving the medical world and his French surgeon sorry for the waste of the donor's hand. Hallam asked for another transplant in 2002, but has received nothing more.

3 - Most broken bones

By the year 1977, when he made his last jump, Robert Craig Knievel (better known as Evel Knievel) had completed 150 jumps from ramp to obstacle ramp with his motorcycle. However, on 18 of these occasions he crashed or suffered an accident, resulting in more than 433 fractures in 35 different bones over the course of his career.

His first serious accident happened when he was not on the bike. In February 1966, Knievel tried to jump over a motorcycle that would pass him at high speed, but he jumped too late and was thrown about 4.5 meters after being hit in the groin. His worst fall, however, would not come until December 31, 1967.

At the time, Knievel attempted to jump the fountains of the Ceasar Palace in Las Vegas - a 43 meter jump. He managed to get past the fountains, but eventually missed the other ramp. His upper legs and pelvis were crushed, he fractured his hip, wrist, and both ankles and suffered a concussion that left him in a coma for 29 days. He died on November 30, 2007 because of pulmonary fibrosis.

2 - Survive the largest number of fatal incidents in one day

Dosha, a 10-month-old pit bull mix living in California, USA, did not have a very good day on April 15, 2003. That morning, she jumped the fence to escape her garden and was hit by a pickup truck. . The dog was dull-eyed and limp when a police officer arrived and, thinking she was dying, shot her in the head just below her right eye.

Animal control arrived and, thinking he was dealing with a corpse, put Dosha in a plastic bag. They took her to the dog shelter and put her in a freezer. Two hours later, one of the staff members opened the machine door and found the sturdy dog ​​sitting still in the bag.

The policeman's bullet traveled through Dosha's skull, narrowly missing his brain, and lodged in the skin under his jaw. She also suffered from hypothermia, but had no broken bones on the run over. The fragments of the gunshot were removed and the dog survived, but eventually suffered some hearing loss in her right ear.

1 - The hardest man to kill

Michael Malloy was an Irish immigrant living in New York in 1933. He had been a firefighter, but at the time spent his time as an indigent alcoholic. That's when five of his acquaintances decided to put three insurance policies on him and then kill him to keep the money.

One of those involved owned an illegal liquor store and gave Malloy an infinite account in the hope that he would die of drinking, but he remained firm and strong even after days and days of sending one drink after another inside. Frustrated, the bar attendant, who was another of the conspirators, spent weeks trying to poison him with antifreeze, turpentine, and horse ointment mixed with rat poison.

When not even raw oysters marinated in wood alcohol worked, the bartender tried to serve spoiled sardines with carpet thumbtacks, and yet the Irishman returned to repeat his plate. On a cold night, with temperatures below minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit, the conspirators knocked Malloy down in a snowbank and splashed water over his bare chest, but still he came back firm and strong.

Desperate, one of them tried to run over the Irishman with his taxi and made the man fly for a few meters before going over him at the exit. The incident put him in hospital for three weeks, but he returned to the illegal store saying he was "dying for a drink." They then waited for Malloy to pass out, attached a hose to his mouth and the other end to a gas outlet, a process that took an hour or so before the man finally died.

The conspirators might have gotten away with it, but they ended up drawing so much attention in the fight for insurance money that the police eventually found out. The five were tried and four of them were sentenced to the electric chair. Everyone died on the first try.