Briton Shatters Record!!

merchant_seaman said:
My brother in law is in the Guiness book of records for running the marathon in the fastest time, dressed as a telephone box. I shit you not.
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Guinness World Records

Fastest marathon dressed as a telephone box​

- Record: Fastest marathon dressed as a telephone box, 4:06:37 hour(s):minute(s):second(s)
- Record Holder: Mark Williamson
- Date record was broken: 9/24/2017
- Location in which record was broken: Hull, United Kingdom
 
TobyC said:
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Guinness World Records

Fastest marathon dressed as a telephone box​

- Record: Fastest marathon dressed as a telephone box, 4:06:37 hour(s):minute(s):second(s)
- Record Holder: Mark Williamson
- Date record was broken: 9/24/2017
- Location in which record was broken: Hull, United Kingdom
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Or is this him?


The fastest marathon dressed as a piece of Hull's culture​


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In September 2017 Mark Williamson ran a marathon dressed in a novelty costume.

Not an animal or a super hero, but a telephone box - a cream telephone box.

The runner honoured his home city by running 26.2 miles dressed as a cream telephone box because Hull was the only place that kept the cream version rather than the red.

Mark ran the race in a time of 4:06:37, making him the World Record holder for the marathon dressed as a telephone box.
 
Jester said:
Google Monsieur Mangetout. Dunno if it was Record Breakers, but he's your man (y)
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Michel Lotito's secret method​

The truth, while still impressive, is not as shocking as someone who was not familiar with the techniques of Monsieur Mangetout might think.

Instead of trying to eat the objects he ate in one sitting, he first broke them into tiny pieces which he then ate mixed with his normal food. After all, who can eat a plane in one sitting?


Thus, the technique followed by Michel Lotito for most of his life was as follows: first he decomposed the object of his choice into tiny pieces, mixed them with his normal food, and then ingested large amounts of water and oil to prevent them from sharp pieces damage your throat or digestive system.

Still, Lotito's feat remains virtually impossible to replicate. The doctors who studied him realized that his gastric juices were much more powerful than normal; and the walls of his stomach were also thicker than usual, such that sharp objects that would have hurt other people did not cause him any problems.

Curiously, this ability to ingest dangerous and non-nutritious objects had a negative counterpart: Michel Lotito experienced severe discomfort if he ate foods that were too soft, such as bananas or eggs.

In addition, because his unusual problem ended up becoming his career, the French artist never managed to solve the pica, so throughout his life he continued to feel the need to eat non-nutritive objects.

Although at the time of his death no direct relationship was found between his curious habits and his death, it cannot be ruled out that his way of eating had a strong influence on it.

Some of the exploits of Monsieur Mangetout​

Michel Lotito's career was undoubtedly one of the most curious that has occurred throughout history. When he decided to ingest a new large object, he gave it public notice; and then it could spend a long time ingesting it piece by piece, decomposed into very small pieces.

For example, when he set out to eat a Cessna 150 (a small aircraft), it took him more than two years to ingest all the small parts into which he had divided it. Something similar happened when he ate a whole coffin, including all the nails, the wood and the handles, which earned him a mention in the Guinness Book of Records.

In fact, the organizers of this well-known book of records decided to give him a commemorative brass plaque, in recognition of his strange food life. Lotito, taking it as a personal challenge, also decided to eat the plate.
 
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