Guinness World Records 2020: Aussie record-breakers revealed
A top Melbourne chef and a NSW strongman are among the star achievers who have taken out titles in the Guinness World Records 2020.
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The Aussie heroes leading the charge in the Guinness World Records 2020 have been revealed.
Topping the list of world record-breakers is Melbourne chef Johnny Di Francesco, whose jaw-dropping pizza containing 154 varieties of cheese wowed the judges.
The co-founder of the popular restaurant Gradi was inspired to create the culinary wonder after hearing news about a previous record holders’s 111-cheese pizza.
The innovative Di Francesco felt he could go one better and came up with the record-breaking recipe.
The chef had previously created the 99-cheese pizza, inspired by the 2014 film The Mutant Ninja Turtles in which Donatello referred to a pizza topped with 99 different cheeses as a “culinary impossibility”.
To celebrate Di Francesco’s achievement, Gradi at Melbourne’s Crown has put the record-breaking dish back on the menu for one week only.
Also leading the world beaters is NSW youth support worker Eddie Adams, who racked up the fastest time to pull a tank over 10 metres.
The part-time strongman, from the Central Coast, pulled off the incredible feat in a mere 36.65 seconds.
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Lovers of Nutella will be drooling over the third Aussie record — the world's longest line of pancakes.
Students at the University of Sydney got to sample pancakes from Nutella Australia’s long line measuring 110.85 metres during Orientation Week in February 2018.
On a global scale, some of the word’s newest record-breakers pushing the boundaries of what’s possible include the word’s largest table tennis bat, which 3.53 metres tall and 2.02m wide is nearly 20 times the size of a standard bat.
The bat was created by Rise Brands at Pins Mechanical Company in the US.
The rules of the International Table Tennis Federation state that rackets can be “of any size” – so it can be used in any competition.
In Poland, the world’s shortest living horse, Bombel, has galloped his way into history measuring in at 56.7 centimetres.
Nilanshi Patel, from India, has broken the world record for longest hair on a teenager growing her hair to an incredible 170.5 centimetres.
Though it takes a half an hour to dry and an hour to comb, Nilanshi sees her lengthy hair as a lucky charm.
In the US, amputee drummer Jason Barnes has taken out the record for the most drumbeats - 2,400 - in a minute using drumsticks with a prosthetic arm.
Barnes wears an electromyographic band that senses muscle activity from his forearm. The prosthetic arm, created by Gil Weinberg of the Georgia Institute of Technology, is then triggered by the muscle sensor to start drumming.
A PC gamer has also taken out a Guinness World Records title for the Most Victory Royales in Fortnite using a QuadStick mouth-operated joystick.
Rocky Stoutenburgh of the US, who goes by “RockyNoHands”, fought his way to 509 Victory Royales in Fortnite Battle Royale (Epic, 2017) using a QuadStick mouth-operated joystick. After injuring himself in a serious fall, Rocky was paralysed from the neck down. Despite his quadriplegia, he was able to train himself over many years to play games using just his mouth.