24 Dumb World Records That People Broke Once (2 of 5)

Most Toilet Seats Smashed Via Head

The toilet seat is a wonderful invention, but some people have a vengeance for them it seems. One man is Kevin Shelley who decided to smash his head against these seats 46 times using only his head for a minute straight.

This is a stupid one to go for because not only are toilet seats great, but trying to break them sounds pointless and will likely result in you giving yourself a concussion.

Most Weight Loss And Weight Difference Between Couples

The record holder for this is Jon Brower Minnoch, a Washington State resident. When he was 12 years old, he weighed almost 300 pounds and that kept on rising until 1978. By that time, he weighed in at 1,400 pounds.

That March, he experienced heart and respiratory failure and had to be sent to the hospital for treatment. A total of 12 firemen needed to get in there to drag his body to get to the hospital.

Once he was there he was diagnosed with massive edema and it was estimated that 900 pounds of his body was attributed to built up fluid.

For two years, he stayed there, having to lay on two beds that were lashed together and required 13 people to roll him over when needed. During his two year stay, he was given a 1,200 calorie diet and after those two years he shed 924 pounds.

Jon Brower Minnoch is also the record holder for the most weight difference between couples as well. Going back to the story we mentioned, during his stay he met a woman named Jeannette whom he married while at the hospital.

During his treatment, she weighed in only 110 pounds so they set a record with ease that is very difficult to break.

While that’s great, it’s a little undercut by the fact that Minnoch passed away three years later after his treatment. With chronic obesity and his rapid weight loss, it severely impacted his health.

Most Non-Surgical Weight Loss

Something that Minnoch couldn’t achieve was this one, but it still went to a pretty heavy person. For this record, it went to Carol Yager, a Michigan resident. She was the heaviest woman to have lived weighing in at roughly 1,600 pounds.

Yager was also the holder of most weight loss through non-surgical methods. Over the course of three months, she was able to shed 520 pounds. Though like Minnoch, she didn’t last and in 1994 she passed away. On her death certificate, the death was caused by kidney failure with morbid obesity and organ failures as contributing causes.

The Lightest Adult To Live

A record that no adult would ever be able to achieve, especially when you look at the competition. The record holder for this is Lucia Zarate. She was recorded as the lightest woman to live weighing in at 4.7 pounds.

How she was able to achieve this was the fact she was so short as well. She was only 21.5 inches tall. Not even two feet tall. So not only was she the lightest, but the shortest to ever walk the planet.

She passed away in the 1890s due to hypothermia when her circus train became stranded in the snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Filed The Most Lawsuits

Jonathan Lee Richards is the record holder for this one. This man alone has sued over 4,000 companies and people. These include Pope Benedict XVI and Bill Gates. He even sued Guinness when he found out he was the record holder.