Fun World Records

Fun world records have been kept since around 3500BC. These early records were for Kings to keep track of land, armies, crops, and ore. We can speculate that early records of this type were perhaps for the farmer with the biggest crop, or the soldier with the most kills in battle. They were rewarded by higher placement in the society.

As history of records develops, competition in sporting type events becomes popular, creating fun world records for the entertainment of the ruling classes. an example of this kind of record is the Roman Coloseum gladiator fights. The best of the fighters would be granted a record for their world accomplishment....and perhaps their life.

Moving forward with historic records, groups and countries developed competition in such events as long distance running. Events were held within the Grecian City States to denote the first of Olympic world record competition.

The modern fun world records really begin with schools and colleges competing with each other in the later times. People started keeping track of all sports and other competitions, creating bizarre, hilarious, and sometimes worthless records. these activities led to the creation of a well known book titled Guinness Book of records.

This book revolutionized record keeping. Fun record attempts of all kinds were recorded. many of these records were silly in their origin. an example of this kind of silly record would be the worlds largest ball of string, or the largest structure made entirely of toothpicks.

Recently, the folks at Guiness have chosen to limit the types of records that they will publish in their book. This was done due to the dangerous nature of some of the attempts that were undertaken to create new records.

All kinds and types of fun competition are reported across the World Wide Web. you can find such events as, tire rolling in junkyards, or the popular eating the most hot dogs at one sitting. If it can be done, you will likely find it on the web.

To showcase some of the more ludicrous, inane, and humorous types of fun world record attempts, we present a collection of sites dedicated to fun world records.

Ashrita Furman!! This guy is all about fun world records. He has a total of 144 Guinness Records and still going. Thats the most for any individual. He has set fun world records all over the globe, in all 7 continents. He currently holds 57 world records.

Talk about fun world records, here are some of his current records.

How about somersaulting for the longest continuous distance. Ashrita Furman did a somersault for 12 miles 390 yards.

Then you have pogostick jumping. Longest continuous distance for this fun world record set by Ashrita Furman is 23.11 miles.

Put on an air tank and go underwater. He holds the underwater Juggling Longest time with 3 balls without a drop. Ashrita Furman did this record for 48 minutes and 36 seconds. Anyone want to give it a try?

Can you balance things? Try balancing a Pool Cue on your finger longest continuous distance. He did this one for 7 miles 220 feet.

For all of Ashrita Furman's fun world records, visit his website at ashrita.com

Here is a site about silly things concerning recordings, games, movies, and in general. have a silly time visiting Kotaku

the Rubiks cube has been around for some time now. Here is a site with all the world records pertaining to cube manipulation. have a puzzling time at Speed Cubing

Here is a fun site for your browsing pleaseure.Search under the lists heading for Disgusting World Records. One such record deals with sucking live snails from their shells.....YUCK! There are others egually disgusting at Laugh Break

Here is a site consisting of every dumb fact, record, or human and animal stupid record in the world. you will be amazed, and hopefully amused, by visiting Dumb Facts

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