Liew Thow Lin is The Magnet Man

Liew Thow Lin, a 70-year-old retired contractor in Malaysia, recently made news for pulling a car twenty meters along a level surface by means of an iron chain hooked to an iron plate on his midriff. He says that he discovered he had the amazing ability to make objects stick "magnetically" to his skin, and now he's added car-pulling to his repertoire. After reading an article about a family in Taiwan who possessed such power, he says he took several iron objects and put them on his abdomen, and to his surprise, all the objects including an iron, stuck on his skin and didn't fall down. Since this "gift'' is also present in three of his sons and two grandchildren, he figures it's hereditary.

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Ben Underwood, Move With Sonar Vision

Ben Underwood taught is blind, both of his eyes were removed (cancer) when he was 3. Yet, he plays basketball, rides on a bicycle, and lives a quite normal life. He taught himself to use echo location to navigate around the world. With no guide-dogs, he doesn't even need hands: he uses sound. Ben makes a short click sound that bounces back from objects. Amazingly, his ears pick up the ecos to let him know where the objects are. He's the only person in the world who sees using nothing but eco location, like a sonar or a dolphin.
Ben was born in Riverside California on January 26th 1992, and a very healthy baby indeed. He never spent any time at the hospital or doctors office, except for baby shots and oh how we all know what that's like. I'm not able to remember the exact dates, but sometime in February of 1992 I noticed that his right eye had a peculiar glow. His eye looked similar to the glow of a cats eye when caught in the head lights of a car. With in three days from the time I noticed his eye glowing, he woke up with the right eye pupil white and at that moment I noticed he couldn't see out of it. Two years old, he didn't cry or complain that anything was hurting him, neither did he act as though his vision was going. That day I took him into the pediatrician, and she immediately sent me to see the ophthalmologist. The first thing he said when he saw Ben's eyes was "There could be thirty things to turn you pupils white, but we will be looking for tumors." I believe that was the most frightening news I had ever heard. That moment began the year long trial.


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Matthew Henshaw, Heaviest Weight Dangled

Matthew Henshaw swallowed a non-retractable 40.5 cm (15.9 in) long sword and then held a sack of potatoes weighing 20.1 kg (44 lb 4.96 oz) attached to the handle of the sword for five seconds at the studios of Guinness World Records, Sydney, Australia, on 16 April 2005.

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Manjit Singh, Heaviest Vehicle Pulled Hair

A double deck bus weighing approx. 11 tonnes 12.1 tons has been pulled using hair alone is 97m 318 ft 3 in by Manjit Singh in the UK, on 10 Mar 2000. This clip was shown on Guinness World Records, Australia. Manjit Singh hoped to pull the 7.5-tonne Routemaster at least 10 meters (33ft) to kick off the third annual Guinness World Records Day, but only succeeded in moving the vehicle part of the way.
'He only managed to pull it around five meters (16ft). He's very disappointed, but that's the nature of record-breaking.'
Earlier this year, Mr Singh, from Leicester, succeeded in pulling a passenger aircraft weighing 7.4 tonnes a distance of 3.4 meters (11ft) using his ears. He already holds several other records, including one for pulling a double deck bus with his hair, and another for lifting 85kg (187lb) with his ears.


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Derek Boyer , World Heaviest Truck Pull

This is one way to move a truck if it runs out of gas! Australian Derek Boyer pulled a Kenworth K104 truck weighing 51840 kg (114287 lb) over a level 100 ft course in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia in March 2005. Boyer is the half time entertainment in the clash between Melbourne Storm and the Parramatta Eels where he will be lifting logs over his head and taking on three people from the audience in a sack carrying competition.
In the Moscow event Boyer was put though a number of events to test his all round strength; "We had to pull a semi trailer, lift these massive stones onto platforms, do some rep's (repetitions) with a car - we were lifting the back end of the car up for reps and there was this other apparatus that was constructed call Conan's Wheel where we had to pick a post up in the crooks of our arms and walk around in a circle with this massive weight wedged in between."
Boyer has had plenty of practice towing vehicles; in fact he currently holds the Guinness World Record for pulling the heaviest; "I have got a certificate to prove that I am the current Guinness World Record holder in pulling the largest vehicle ever pulled by a human being."

"I've actually did that a couple of times now; the first time I did it in Albury but it was beaten shortly after by a priest in Canada, then I came back to beat that two years ago on the (Gold) Coast where I pulled a 52 tonne semi trailer 30 metres in 48 seconds; that is now the current standing record."

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Gary Parsons, The Longest Run

A 50-year-old Australian builder set a world record for the longest continuous run Tuesday when he wrapped up a 274-day trek around the country, clocking up 19,030 kilometers (11,799 miles). Gary Parsons started running April 25 and on Dec. 16 broke the previous world record of 17,071 km (10,584 miles) set by American Robert Sweetgall in 1983. Parsons limped into Brisbane with a badly damaged ankle after running a minimum of 20 kilometers (12 miles) a day for more than nine months.

"My left ankle is just bone on bone at the moment, completely worn out, but it got me through the world record," Parsons told Reuters.
"It was my goal to run further than anyone in the history of running. I guess it is just a bit of Aussie spirit, like the old explorers who went into the beyond and went that bit further."

Parsons averaged 72.4 kilometers (44.9 miles) a day until he broke the record and wore out a dozen pairs of running shoes during the marathon run.

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Paul Anderson, Weightlifting Champion

World (1955) and Olympic (1956) weightlifting champion - and holder of all the world records at the time - Paul Anderson, the subject of an excellent new book by Randall J. Strossen, Ph.D., was probably the strongest man who ever walked the face of the earth. One of the best known athletes of his time, no other strongman, before or since, has captured the imagination of the world the way Anderson did in the '50s and early '60s.
Paul Anderson's still unequaled prowess in the deep knee bend or squat. Outshining his historic performances in the Olympic lifts, Dr. Strossen writes, "He squatting ability surpassed anyone's wildest dreams...He was getting close to squatting double what the record had been before he assaulted it."
At a time when the world record was around 650 pounds, Anderson was doing 900 pounds for reps in exhibitions. He eventually squatted 1160 pounds before reputable witnesses at Muscle Beach and again on The Ed Sullivan Show before a national television audience. Pressed for his all-time best, Anderson told Strossen, "I did 1200 pounds face value with no reservations whatsoever."
As to doubting Thomases, he said, "My squatting power was never challenged or no one ever disputed it after they saw me do, say, 10 reps with 800". Which he did many times as a guest lifter at early power lifting contests.


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Kishan Suryavanshi, Eating Glass

After fifteen years of digging his teeth into tube lights, liquor bottles and even spectacles, Kishan Suryavanshi dreams of feasting on the windscreen of a supersonic jet. Kishan first started eating glass for a bet. He won the bet but also realized he had a taste for glass. The 35-year-old has now eaten glass in all shapes and sizes and even swallowed sharp edged blades. He faces no apparent discomfort due to his habit and can chew on glasses of varying thickness.

Kishan Suryavansh, Said:
"Its not that I eat glass everyday. It could be in a week or even 15 days. I don't even measure how much I eat. But I do like watching all those bizarre feats on adventure channels where people eat worms and insects. I also want to get my name into the Guinness Book because what I do is not easy. I bite the glass and really chew it."

Kishan Suryavansh Brother, Said:
"Earlier, when he did this, we wondered in amazement at his feat. But now, since this has given him fame, we are happy about it. We were slightly apprehensive in the beginning whether it would hurt him, but its obviously not hurting him. We are happy for him and feel that if he wants, he can even teach this art to others."

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