CDMX, Mexico.- Last April, Erick Hernández established a new Guinness record by touching the ball 351 times with his head in one minute. With this feat, the Cuban surpassed the mark of the Chinese Gao Chong by 10 shots.
Erick is precisely one of the most popular island record holders and has achieved the most media coverage; However, he is not the only one who has managed to enter the long-awaited book.
Cubanet offers you a summary of some Cubans (people and animals) that have slipped into these famous records.
Manufacture of the largest tobacco in the world in 2011 (José Castelar)
During the International Tourism Fair, the cigar roller José Castelar Cairo (Cueto as he is known) managed to make the longest tobacco in the world, by making a 81.80 meter cigar.
The twister already had experience with these distinctions. His first record was with a tobacco of 11.04 meters in length (in the year 2001); the second of 14.86 (2003); the third of 20.41 (2005), and after 45.38 meters (2008).
precautionary I explainedeither to BBC Mundo that “the most important thing when making a cigar is the quality of the leaf and then respecting the blend that it has, in the established percentages of hundreds. good”.
Control of the ball with his head in the water (Jhoen Lefont Rodríguez)
The former athlete from the water polo team in Matanzas is the owner of seven Guinness records and two in the process of being homologated.
Regarding the preparation process, he confessed to the perieitherGir saideitherno: “It demands a lot of dedication, physical preparation and constant practice. Not infrequently at night, even in bed, I think about how to do it. I get up and, in the room or in the patio, I execute the idea. It sounds easy, but it is not. You need to have a blank mind, concentration, like an inertia, especially when time advances and the body needs the rest that you cannot offer it. There is rigor, yes, a lot of rigor. But he deserves it.”
Lefont set an unprecedented world record, by giving it 183 touches during one minute, only with the head of the ball in the water.
Longest-lived musician to sell a million records
Máximo Francisco Repilado Muñoz, known as Compay Segundo, won the record as mlongest-lived musician to sell a million records musicals. The award was obtained for his album Buena Vista Social, for which he also won a Grammy award.
Mental Calculation on calendar dates
Yusnier Viera, a graduate of the Mathematics Department of the University of Havana, became famous on the island because he was invited to many television spots to show that he could calculate practically any date in the past or present. Hence, they named it with bombastic epithets such as “the human calculator” or “the human calendar”.
The Cuban guy tosure in an interview with BBC Mundo that it is not a “gift”. “To set a record, perhaps you do need to have a talent, but calculating dates quickly is enough with a lot of practice and a good algorithm.”
The largest Daiquiri in the world in 2012 (Bar El Floridita)
This record needed collective help. Dozens of Cuban waiters from the renowned El Floridita bar in Havana prepared a giant 71-gallon daiquiri. To do this, they used more than 80 bottles of Havana Club Añejo rum for three years, about 30 kg of sugar, 30 liters of lemon, ten liters of maraschino and more than 200 kilograms of frappe ice.
The smallest feathered animal
It is the hummingbird, the small multicolored bird, it is endemic to the Cuban archipelago, and it earned its place in the Guinness book as the smallest feathered animal in the world.
Another curious fact is that it is capable of flapping its wings up to 200 times per second in its mating stage, but its normal flapping frequency is 80 times per second.
The cow with the highest milk production in 1982
In the 1980s, Fidel Castro’s eccentricity with milk went a long way, along with the name of white udder, the Cuban cow that had its own monument, air conditioning and which the president called “our champion.” The record of the milk obtained from Ubre Blanca was reported on the news and stations as if it were the weather or the results of the baseball series.
The ruminant was even proudly mentioned by the Cuban dictator in his speeches, especially since it surpassed the world record for an American cow and entered the Guinness records. And one of Fidel’s biggest obsessions was competing against the United States.
Crush cans with your back
From the city of Sancti Spiritus comes this unusual Guinness record starring in 2020 by Christian Manuel Castellano Rangel, named as “Lata-Man”.
With the help of a friend, the young man placed 84 cans of beer on his back in one minute, and one by one, he crushed them all with a forceful movement of his shoulder blades.
This young man also has an admirable elasticity that helped him establish his brand. “I am able to bend my shoulders, knees, fingers and toes to unexpected positions and I don’t feel pain,” the young Cuban told clearYono.
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