Every year, a person with impressive feats of strength or super cognitive abilities leaves their mark in the annals of history for their remarkable achievements.
Inevitably, those record-holders are replaced by a successor who surpasses them, setting the bar even higher for future challengers.
However, some feats can never be outdone.
Curious to hear examples of what those might be, Redditor InviteAromatic6124 asked:
"What's a Guiness World Record you don't think will ever be broken?"
These impressive technical achievements aren't expected to be replaced any time soon.
Crowded Scene
"Greatest number of extras used in a single movie scene."
"The record holder is 1982’s 'Gandhi' which used 300,000 for a 10-minute funeral sequence. Most films now use CGI for crowds of that size."
– helloflytrap
"The Phantom Menace used Q Tips for the podrace crowd."
– JeanRalfio
Sinking Ship
"The film Titanic sold 389,792,470 cinema tickets."
"Although other films have made more money since, that's largely due to inflation pushing ticket prices up. Globally, cinema attendance is decreasing so I don't expect any film to ever sell more tickets."
– tobotic
Mother
"Children born to one mother - 69. Yes, there were a bunch of twins, triplets, and even quadruplets. And it was all natural, not medically assisted, considering it was the 18th century."
"Frankly, I would have threatened my husband with a knife if he came near me after the first 12."
– t1mepiece
"She had to have to been giving birth every year from her early teens right up to menupause. It's like her whole adult life she was practically never not pregnant."
– iamwearingashirt
Born To Lead
"The youngest monarch."
"Both Alfonso XIII of Spain and Jean I of France became kings upon birth, but you don’t see many monarchies anymore."
– helloflytrap
Going Nowhere Fast
"Fastest boat has stood since the 1970s. Cuz everyone who tries to beat the record dies."
"Perhaps 317 miles per hour is fast enough for a boat."
– Nannyphone7
"Fastest speed on water, 511.11kph (317.59mph) set in 1978 by Ken Warby. The record has been set or attempted to be set 13 times since the 1930s, with 7 of those attempts ending in death."
– Youpunyhumans
Humans have tolerance limitations that prevent world records from being constantly updated.
No Rest For The Wicked
"Longest time without sleep since they no longer will certify this due to the danger it poses to the person attempting it."
– fossilnews
"The record is 11 nights. Oof. I stayed awake through two nights (54 hours) in college getting ready for senior year finals. When I started hallucinating some bizarre things appearing at my window, I hit the pillow. Dumbest thing I ever did in college."
– Thatnerdyguy92
"Three days for me, 70+ hours. I was doing poorly in a college class, as was more than half the class, so rather than risk failing most of the class, our professor allowed us to resubmit any homework or class projects for up to 80% full credit. I stayed up from Friday through Monday, and resubmitted everything that was lower than a B."
"I ended up passing the course with the C minimum needed for the department, but I experienced what it's like to fall asleep standing up while waiting for the train ride home."
– yakusokuN8
Preventing Liver Poisoning
"Any of the records involving alcohol consumption. The editors stopped accepting new claims related to alcohol consumption to discourage people from poisoning themselves trying to out-drink previous record holders."
– cwthree
Game Changer
"Several baseball records won’t be beaten due to the way the game is played now, one of the big ones being Cy Young’s winning record. No pitcher will ever match that because they don’t pitch every day any more. No other player has even come close, that record has stood for over 100 years."
– helloflytrap
Physical traits and prowess have hit maximum levels.
Go The Distance
"The longest javelin throw record is considered unbreakable because the javelin was redesigned in 1986 to make it harder to throw long distances."
"Basically people could almost throw it into the crowd. Given athletics have to fit within the 400m track, there is an upper limit to those sports."
– stainz169
Maximum Height
"The tallest man in the world at 8'11". Pituitary gland issue that is almost always fixed before people get too tall."
– alwaysfatigued8787
"This is also the reason why the tallest person alive these days is almost always from a poorer country and not a wealthy country where people are taller on average."
– greyghibli
Human Lightning Rod
"Roy Sullivan being struck by lightning 7 times. That guy had skills."
– djp1968
Let It Grow
"Longest fingernails, I can still see the image of that dude from when I used to buy the books at school during the book fair."
– Ckn-bns-jns
Maritime Legend
"I don't believe the record for youngest person to swim the English Channel at 11 years 330 days will ever be broken."
– OP
While some of these jaw-dropping accomplishments definitely won't be seeing updates in the foreseeable future, they reinforce the fact that humans seem to possess infinite extraordinary capabilities.
We humans have no limits, and we have our respective powers within us that don't necessarily have to be validated in a publication.
We just have to recognize our unique strengths for ourselves and use them for good. That makes us true champions.
