Record Breakers
The Craziest World Records of All Time
By The Robot Book Club · 2026
93 pages · 36 records · 6 chapters
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Picture this: You just balanced fourteen spoons on your face, hopped across the living room on a pogo stick, and successfully caught a piece of toast flying out of the toaster in your teeth. Your dog is staring at you. Your sibling is slowly clapping. Panting, you look at the clock and think: Wait... is that a world record? It’s a great question. But getting your name in the history books takes a lot more than just doing something completely absurd in your kitchen.
Table of Contents
- 01
The Human Body
Some people are living proof that the human body has settings the rest of us never unlock. The tallest, the hairiest, the longest-nailed — every one of them a real, proud, record-holding person.
- ·The Tallest Human Being in History
- ·The World's Longest Tongue
- ·The World's Stretchiest Skin
- ·The Farthest Eyeball Pop
- ·The Longest Hair Ever
- ·The World's Widest Mouth
- 02
Strength and Speed
This chapter is pure horsepower: the fastest humans alive, the heaviest things ever lifted, and the split-seconds that separate a world record from an ordinary great day.
- ·The Fastest Person on Earth
- ·The Fastest Animal Sprint
- ·The Fastest Car in the World
- ·The Most Powerful Animal Bite
- ·The Heaviest Airplane Pulled
- ·The Fastest Puzzle Solver
- 03
Eating Champions
Warning: read this chapter on an empty stomach. These are the people (and the appetites) that turned lunch into a world championship, from hot dogs to whole cars.
- ·The Ultimate Hot Dog Hero
- ·The Lifetime of Big Macs
- ·The World's Most Humongous Pizza
- ·The Giant Chicken Nugget
- ·The Speedy Salad
- ·The Blindfolded Candy Catcher
- 04
Animal Record-Holders
Nature has been setting records for a lot longer than we have. Meet the biggest, fastest, oldest, and loudest animals on the planet — the undisputed champions of the wild.
- ·The Heaviest Animal in History
- ·The Tallest Living Animal
- ·The Fastest Diving Animal
- ·The Smallest Animal With a Backbone
- ·The Largest Bird Wingspan
- ·The Loudest Animal on Earth
- 05
Things People Built
When humans decide to build the biggest — or the tiniest — version of something, they do not hold back. This chapter is the world's most extreme construction site.
- ·The World's Tallest Building
- ·The Longest Roller Coaster
- ·The Smallest Street-Legal Car
- ·The Largest LEGO Brick Sculpture
- ·The Biggest Rubber Duck
- ·The Heaviest Building Ever Moved
- 06
Records Nobody Should Want
Some records are trophies. Others are just... a lot. These are the gloriously uncomfortable ones — the longest hiccups, the most bees, the records that make you say 'why would anyone?' — all held with a grin.
- ·The Longest Attack of Hiccups
- ·The Heaviest Coat of Bees
- ·The Most Snails on a Face
- ·The Longest Baked Bean Bath
- ·Most Spoons Balanced on a Body
- ·Most T-Shirts Worn at Once