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The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times

Longest spell standing on one leg
Arulanantham Suresh Joachim balanced for 76hr 40min (Sri Lanka, May 22-25, 1997)

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Longest cowpat toss
Steve Urner’s 81.1-metre throw broke the record for 100% organic pat-tossing, the rules of which state that pats must not be “moulded into a spherical shape” to facilitate throwing (California, August 14, 1981)

Oldest barefoot water-skier
87-year-old pensioner George Blair, aka Banana George (Florida, February 10, 2002)

Bathing with rattlesnakes
Texans Rosie Reynolds-McCasland and Jackie Bibby each sat in a bathtub with 75 western diamondbacks (California, September 24, 1999)