Guinness World Records - Human Body Theme

Andi 0:01

I'm gonna chew and train until I can beat this record.

Tanner 0:05

A rocky montage of just like biting into stuff like random stuff. Yes.

Andi 0:10

Yeah. Yeah. I love it. Just crunching apples Wait, what?

Sups 0:16

the lowest temperature to which

Andi 0:18

heard you.

Tanner 0:19

I don't believe you.

Andi 0:23

like, well now you guys are just being petty. This

Tanner 0:25

Come on.

Andi 0:26

A bunch of Irish people being all petty. Hello and welcome to this episode of I Should Have Known the Trivia Game Show that Can't Be Trusted. Each week, one of our quiz masters will present you with four facts about a topic, but one of those is a lie. We are celebrating everything of the human body this month and this week. Our quiz master is soups. Hello and soups is going to be presenting us with four body extremes. So this is actually a superlatives episode, he'll give us four facts about the most biggest, longest est of the human body. But remember that one of his facts is a lie. So join me, Andy, and our other hosts, Tanner, and figuring out which one it's

Sups 1:12

all right. And all of these facts have taken, from the Guinness Book of World Records. Mm-hmm. So as of recording these are the records, but maybe, who knows by the time that's

Andi 1:23

that's true, by the time you're listening listener, these might have changed.

Tanner 1:28

Yeah.

Sups 1:28

So before we get started, we do the P Q Q

Andi 1:31

P Q Q. This is our pub quiz question.

Sups 1:34

The PQQ of the week is name the fastest moving muscle. In the human body,

Andi 1:42

Fastest moving muscle.

Tanner 1:44

So muscles have to like twitch to activate. Right.

Andi 1:48

I bet it's the tongue.

Tanner 1:49

I think it's like that. It's an organ, like the heart.

Sups 1:52

Yeah.

Andi 1:52

I feel like, I know people often say the tongue is the hardest working muscle in the body.

Sups 1:57

Mm-hmm.

Tanner 1:58

Could also be the eyes,

Andi 1:59

could be something in the eyes. It

Tanner 2:00

a couple muscles up

Andi 2:01

the head because literally it's the shorter, journey. So yeah, the eyes could be good,

Sups 2:07

Tongue. Okay. the heart. Okay, well it's neither, but you kind of dilly dallied around the right

Andi 2:13

Is it something in the eye?

Sups 2:15

It's the orbicular is oculi. Ah.

Tanner 2:17

uhhuh.

Sups 2:18

We have two of these, one in each eye, and they control the closing action of the eyelids. Yes.

Andi 2:23

blinking. Literally blinking.

Sups 2:25

And they shot the eye in less than a hundred milliseconds.

Tanner 2:29

Ooh, that's

Andi 2:30

All right. So that's the fastest muscle.

Tanner 2:32

Yes. Oh, very interesting.

Sups 2:33

So we are ready for the human body. Extreme facts.

Tanner 2:37

So ready.

Sups 2:38

Alright. So fact number one, the strongest human bite had a strength of 442 kg and lasted two seconds.

Tanner 2:48

Wow. what are you eating that you need to bite

Andi 2:51

apart.

Tanner 2:52

he would just annihilate an apple.

Sups 2:53

Let me give you some more details so then you'll know whether it's too little or too much. Yeah. Okay. So this record it happened in August, 1986. Okay. The person is Richard Hoffman in Lake City, Florida. And he achieved a bite strength of 442 kg, 975 pounds This happened, of course, not while having his breakfast, but in the research, Facility. So this was done by Dr. Charles Gibbs of the University of Florida College of Dentistry. he developed a set of padded. Bite plates. Yeah. Where Richard Hoffman, who had extra strong jaw muscles just went for it. And this was the highest that was recorded.

Andi 3:37

Um, first of all, Florida. of course it's classic Florida. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. He's just channeling his inner gator.

Sups 3:44

So this figure is more than six times the normal biting strength of a human being. So human beings bytes are measured in P S I, which is pound square. Inch. Mm-hmm. Right. So humans usually have about 100 to one 60 p s I. Okay. Okay. Mm-hmm. For example, a crocodile Yeah. Has about 3,700

Andi 4:06

Yeah. So that, that's what I was thinking. I was like, I've seen this for animals. other animals can do thousands of pounds.

Sups 4:12

there's a reason why we have a weaker jaw and we can't bite as hard as crocodiles because we're used to eating cooked food. And weaker jaws also means more space for the brains. Yeah,

Tanner 4:26

As soon as I heard this, I was like, that could easily be a lie. Because that could be how hard Gators bite, because it's Florida. But then you said thousands and I was like, oh,

Andi 4:34

Oh, I'm way off. Well that, that was my first thought was I was like yeah, I know a lot of other animals can do it pretty high. I mean, it does make sense that humans wouldn't be able to bite as hard. We don't have to evolutionarily. And then also the shape of our mouth, like, yeah, that checks

Tanner 4:49

out. Yeah. Bite. Smarter not harder.

Andi 4:51

Yes. Yes.

Sups 4:53

Okay.

Andi 4:54

But it, it's also sketchy because like speaking of Florida and Americans, it's like, you know, if you think about Guinness Records and someone hears something like this, you know, somebody's gonna be like, I'm gonna chew and train until I can beat this record.

Tanner 5:08

A rocky montage of just like biting into stuff like random stuff. Yes.

Andi 5:13

Yeah. Yeah. I love it. Just crunching apples yeah, yeah. With Eye of the Tiger in the background and just jumping on apples and stuff. So it's kind of weird to me that this was like a one-off event. Yeah. And that in the eighties and this is the best anyone's done,

Tanner 5:28

But it's totally believable that someone heard about this and they're like, I'm gonna break that.

Andi 5:32

Right. Yeah.

Tanner 5:32

Yeah.

Andi 5:33

Well now they will probably,

Tanner 5:36

Now I'm

Andi 5:36

I, well, dear listener, if you go for this record and you get it, we have to be included in your, your writeup. Yeah. Okay. So yeah, I mean, it's interesting, but. definitely skeptical.

Tanner 5:47

There's three more, so I guess I'll bite. Okay,

Sups 5:50

fine. All right. Fact number two. The lowest temperature to which a human body has been intentionally cooled is nine degrees Celsius.

Andi 6:02

Wait, what?

Sups 6:03

the lowest temperature to which

Andi 6:06

heard you.

Tanner 6:06

I don't believe you.

Sups 6:09

Wait,

Tanner 6:09

what?

Sups 6:10

lemme repeat

Andi 6:11

that. Wow. since most of our listeners are American, maybe we should tell them what that

Sups 6:16

is. It is about 48.2 degrees in

Andi 6:19

48.2 degrees. So almost half of a normal body

Tanner 6:23

Yeah. So well past hypothermia, like, oh my God,

Sups 6:27

so this was intentional, So from Florida, let's now go to Minnesota.

Andi 6:32

Okay. All right. We're already much more

Sups 6:34

So this was 28th December, 1955. Doctors were treating this woman, It's only by her case number, which is a H 2 1 1 2 4 3, of the anchor hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota. For a terminal ovarian cancer. During that time they had to cool down the body to perform. major surgeries Okay. Mm-hmm. And during this operation the patient's heart rate was slowly decreased until cardiac standstill was reached. And then they were measuring the temperature of the body both by a rectal thermometer and an electric probe. it reached 10.5 where the heartbeat ceased and the temperature continued to drop until it registered nine degrees Celsius.

Andi 7:23

Yeah. But So but did she, yeah. Right. Did she live? Yes. So they resuscitated her. So, because I was like, yeah, a corpse gets pretty cold. You're describing death,

Sups 7:34

So the patient recovered consciousness after like about 10 hours after the procedure. She was back to her normal body temperature, her mental condition intelligence, like she could recognize everyone. Everything was fine. But her, cancer. Did not regress and unfortunately she died 38 days later. It's just that the cancer was like widespread and there was very little that the doctors could do. Mm-hmm.

Andi 8:00

Weird.

Tanner 8:02

So it's weird that she's the only one, right? this is a,

Andi 8:06

no, I actually, I find it more believable that this happened in like the fifties under these kinds of conditions that we would never replicate nowadays. It's this weird fluke thing. Like they were doing this to hundreds of people, thousands of people who mostly died, but this one person, you know what I'm saying? So like this whole procedure was extremely dangerous. That's worked. Yeah. And the reason that no one has beaten it is because trying to replicate it would be extremely dangerous. Yeah. So like,

Tanner 8:37

I mean, from the medical side, you don't need to do it anymore. You can just transfer your heart's work to an outside machine basically and bypass your heart. And then you can even do open heart surgery. Right. And the person's still alive. Yeah. But you're just. Not having the heart work. Right. So like, we wouldn't even need to do this anymore. Right.

Andi 8:54

So that's what they were doing. They were cooling her body so that her heart would stop.

Tanner 8:57

Yeah. So that they can then do the surgery without worrying that she's

Andi 9:01

she's gonna bleed everywhere.

Tanner 9:02

Yeah. She's gonna bleed everywhere. Especially with like uterine or ovarian cancers, like there's lots of blood vessels so this would be very risky if you're trying to cut out a huge tumor. Mm-hmm. Or something that's very, very well perfused with

Andi 9:15

Yeah, Right. Okay. So that's why it's like an old timey, surgical method was to cool a body, to slow the heart down. Mm-hmm. This seems very believable in that sense, yeah. They weren't just trying to cool her to beat a record. Yeah. They just happen to cool her. Nine degrees

Tanner 9:31

is They must have had such a hard time preventing damage to the rest of her cells. You know, the rest of her body, her skin and everything. Yeah. 'cause that's really cold.

Andi 9:41

That's really cold. Nine degrees, 48 degrees. So like, the lie could be that it was even colder. Sure.

Tanner 9:48

That sounds a lot like Mr. freeze and Batman. Like, this is

Sups 9:52

sketchy.

Andi 9:54

Oh my God. this one I find more believable than the first one, so. here's some more. Mm-hmm.

Sups 9:59

Cool. So let's move on Fact number three, the worst sound to the human year is that of Ence.

Andi 10:07

Wait. This is a record in Guinness Book of World Records. Worst sound

Sups 10:12

Yes.

Tanner 10:13

Sounds so subjective. How could you have a record

Sups 10:15

the, so this was a study that was done in 2007 by this professor of acoustic engineering at Salford University in England. And so, His group of scientists and him, they wanted to understand, why some sounds are so horrible, but it's mostly like our reactions to them is part of what makes us human. So the researchers gave like 34 sounds and then they sought opinions. Mm-hmm. And 1.1 million votes came in. And then they analyzed it.

Tanner 10:50

What else was on there? So,

Sups 10:51

number one of course was.

Andi 10:53

Natural.

Sups 10:53

Ss, I was

Andi 10:54

if we could guess

Tanner 10:54

let's guess. The others Family food style

Sups 10:56

Yeah. says

Andi 10:57

yeah. Yes. Number two, Well, I was gonna say also 1.3 million people haven't heard Tanner make a dumb joke. otherwise that would be up there.

Tanner 11:04

Okay.

Andi 11:05

people eating,

Sups 11:06

people,

Andi 11:07

chewing,

Sups 11:08

chewing. Is that Mm, no, It's not on the top. 10.

Andi 11:13

then I

Tanner 11:13

think,

Andi 11:13

of this sounds like bss. 'cause that is certainly, people hate that sound.

Tanner 11:17

What about just the word moist?

Sups 11:19

That wasn't

Andi 11:20

adoption? No. about like burping?

Sups 11:23

I don't see it on the top

Andi 11:24

oh my God. What are other annoying

Tanner 11:26

Is it Like a siren, Nails on a chalkboard.

Sups 11:29

I'll give you number two Number two is feedback.

Andi 11:32

Oh,

Tanner 11:33

yeah, Yeah. That when the mic

Andi 11:34

get too close to the terrible sound.

Tanner 11:37

Yeah. For someone who has to listen to like, podcast episodes. To me it's mouth sounds.

Andi 11:43

It's all the lip smacks. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I was gonna say baby's crying is an obvious one.

Sups 11:48

It's number three. Number three, yes. wailing babies. Yes. My favorite is number six, which is poorly played violin.

Tanner 11:57

Oh yes. Poorly played violet. Love

Andi 12:01

that.

Tanner 12:01

What, like cat mating Is that on

Andi 12:03

yes. Oh my God. Cater walling is just

Tanner 12:07

like, ah.

Sups 12:07

yeah. But yeah. But passing gas or Flatless number one.

Tanner 12:11

So to me, something that's natural, Flatulence or babies crying shouldn't be disgusting. So this must hit you somewhere else. Yeah. You know, this is a private thing. I don't wanna hear that. Yeah. Or this reminds me of feces. So then it's disgusting.

Andi 12:28

right? You know, okay,

Tanner 12:29

But if this was a lie Yeah. Then you just swap one of those other top 10 in there.

Andi 12:34

Yeah. This would be such an easy place to lie. that's where part of the problem with it is, is like it could just be anything else. Yeah. And you could easily say, you should have known, because there are a lot of annoying sounds out there.

Tanner 12:45

Right.

Andi 12:45

So, it sounds also like super weird to be in the Guinness Book of World Records, right? So I do find this one really sketchy. Yeah, I'm very skeptical of this one as well. Oh, we got one more. Let's hear it. four.

Sups 12:59

there's no current record holder of the world's heaviest man.

Tanner 13:04

World's heaviest man is no one

Sups 13:06

No one. Yes. Is there

Andi 13:07

world's heaviest woman?

Sups 13:08

There is, yes. man. No.

Tanner 13:12

Okay. Well, this immediately makes you ask why not,

Andi 13:15

Yeah. Yeah.

Sups 13:16

So Guinness Book of World Records, they have been keeping this record since 1955 when they recorded the first heaviest man. in November, 2016 Kenne book had the record for the world's heaviest human, which was Juan Pedro Franco Salas of the Mexican city of aas SCEs. he was reported to weigh 594.8 kg, which is 1,311 pounds. wow. a ton. Yes. And the reason why they don't have the record is because in May, 2017, Franco had lost 170 kgs. Which is 374 pounds. then he had a gastric bypass surgery and the last available data is of November, 2018, and he reached 304 kg. okay. So that brings them down to like the overall list. And that's why currently, he doesn't hold the record anymore because he lost all of this weight. So that's why this is vacant. And Guinness Book of World Records is looking now. Because the only way. Guinness Book can find out when somebody approaches them, or there is some news in the media where people want to talk about their obesity, and it's of course not the nicest thing to talk about

Tanner 14:30

so it's available. Yes.

Sups 14:32

They're looking for stories like this. Yeah. they haven't found anyone who could beat that weight

Tanner 14:39

So he was the most recent holder though? Yes.

Sups 14:42

The most recent holder? Mm-hmm. Yes.

Andi 14:44

Okay. But like, The current heaviest person on earth. We don't know.

Tanner 14:48

And that's, that's a really interesting record then because Yeah, people's weight moves. Yes. Right. Yeah. So it's not like Something else that's static and then you hold it for the rest of your life until someone comes and breaks it. Yes. It's like, oh, you went down in, wait. Do you no longer hold the record? Yeah. That's weird.

Sups 15:06

So that's why they say, okay, this is vacant.

Andi 15:09

Hmm.

Tanner 15:10

I mean, if it's not true, then someone does hold it currently, right? That's pretty easy to lie. I'm kind of inclined to believe it because the story makes sense to me that it was recent. This guy reached this weight and then came back down. So what do you do as Guinness, right? You say, well, there's no one, he's not the holder anymore.

Andi 15:30

we don't know who the heaviest person alive is. Right? Because the person we knew who was the heaviest is no longer as heavy, but Right. Also though it stands to reason, he is still the heaviest. That's not, that's not impossible. Yeah. Yeah, the whole thing sounds really weird to me. I don't really get it because how is he not just the heaviest person?

Sups 15:49

he lost all his weight.

Andi 15:51

Yeah. But he, at one point in his life was measured to be the heavy.

Tanner 15:55

Yeah.

Andi 15:56

So he's the heaviest person.

Sups 15:58

but these kind of records, as I see it changes when somebody, because, for example, the fastest man on earth, right. Usin Bolt, because he did it in 9.7 seconds. Right Now, if somebody does in 9.5 seconds, yes. Usin Bolt will no longer be the fastest man. Yes, Of course. Right. That makes sense.

Andi 16:15

even if you asked like Usain Bolt to do it again and he didn't get in as fast, he's still the fastest. even if he can't do it again.

Tanner 16:23

he did it once, like this. he's still the fastest. So this, the heaviest person was this guy. Even if he's no longer, that heavy is still that guy. Oh,

Sups 16:32

she does.

Tanner 16:32

If that's true, I have a bone to pick with Guinness. 'cause That's

Andi 16:36

weird. That's very bizarre. And yeah. So I think maybe that's a lie there. There's totally a person who has this record. Yeah, I don't understand why the category would be vacant. That

Tanner 16:45

doesn't make sense to me. Yeah.

Andi 16:47

Well, those are some extreme facts and we'll have to weigh them carefully and figure out which one of them is a lie. But before we do so, could you please repeat the four of them?

Sups 16:58

Yeah. So fact number one, the strongest human bite had the strength of 442 kg and lasted two seconds. fact number two The lowest temperature to which a human body has been intentionally cooled is nine degrees Celsius. fact number three The worst sound to the human ear is that of laters. And number four, there's no current record holder of the world's heaviest man.

Tanner 17:33

Huh. One is a lie.

Andi 17:35

All right. I think number two, I feel like it's the least Sketchy. So that one I'm gonna throw out. Yeah. I think it's one of the other three. Okay. The bite sounds ridiculous. It also sounds like how is there not a stronger bite somewhere?

Tanner 17:51

How

Andi 17:51

no one bitten something?

Tanner 17:53

Yeah. talking about hundreds versus thousands for other animals.

Andi 17:57

Yeah. So then I'm thinking three and four. Four is sketchy It's just simply, is there a person in that spot?

Tanner 18:04

Right.

Andi 18:05

I'm not persuaded by the reasoning why there isn't one. Right. So that makes me think that there is

Tanner 18:11

Okay. So you think there is the heaviest person?

Andi 18:13

just because like he lost weight seems like, well now you guys are just being petty. This

Tanner 18:17

Come on.

Andi 18:18

A bunch of Irish people being all petty. So then I'm thinking number three is also so subjective.

Tanner 18:24

that's so true. 'cause it's different from the other three. Yeah. Where there was a holder, there was a record holder, they went and tested it. This was like they asked a million people. That's very different.

Andi 18:33

Yeah. Right. and then also like the lie could just simply be, it's something not, farting. Bam. So the whole story is still true.

Tanner 18:40

Yeah.

Andi 18:40

But it's a different sound.

Tanner 18:43

Yeah. Yeah. So I think I'm gonna go with that one. That one.

Andi 18:45

I

Tanner 18:45

it's the baby crying or something. Different

Andi 18:47

Man, it's hard. I think. I guess I'll go with number four. Okay. I think somebody holds that record.

Tanner 18:53

Sure. this guy. Maybe someone

Andi 18:55

Yeah. Yeah.

Tanner 18:56

Yeah.

Sups 18:57

Okay. cool. So we've got

Andi 18:59

number

Sups 19:00

three and four. If anyone's looking to become the world's heaviest man sure, go ahead. That place is vacant according to Guinness Book of all

Andi 19:10

so weird. They, They, just seems petty. Like they were

Tanner 19:13

back to that guy.

Andi 19:14

like, what was his name? Juan. Juan, yes. What? It's just petty like you lost weight. Now we don't care about you

Sups 19:19

anymore. Like what?

Andi 19:21

He's still the

Tanner 19:21

heaviest Yeah. This

Sups 19:22

the

Andi 19:23

Bolt rule.

Tanner 19:23

Yeah.

Sups 19:24

Yeah. Which means it brings us to fact number three and sometimes. Things are simple because they're simple. It's not farting the worst sound to the human ear according to the 1.1 million

Andi 19:37

Mm-hmm.

Sups 19:38

vomiting.

Tanner 19:39

Oh, Yeah, yeah, let's all practice vomiting. Just

Andi 19:43

I, I actually should have thought of that one, because Tanner

Tanner 19:46

vomiting Oh yeah. is

Andi 19:47

the scariest thing in the world. I

Tanner 19:48

I'm really good at vomiting. I

Sups 19:49

It's not a skill.

Andi 19:51

I call it werewolf. He is the werewolf. Yeah. he, you know, he hunches over the toilet and he's got his back all curved and like gets goosebumps.

Sups 19:57

and it's like,

Andi 19:58

like furs coming out of his

Tanner 19:59

back Mm-hmm.

Andi 20:00

then he roars at the toilet,

Tanner 20:01

Like he

Sups 20:02

doesn't

Andi 20:02

have vomit it quietly. He roars at the toilet. Yeah.

Tanner 20:06

of

Sups 20:06

the Yeah. it's, Yeah, It surprised we talked with so many songs, but

Tanner 20:10

not

Sups 20:10

mentioned

Tanner 20:11

true. Honestly,

Andi 20:12

doesn't bother again. A lot of these nationals, they don't bother me when I Well, what bothers me about it is not that it's the puking sound. It's that it's so obnoxious. Tanner, Yeah. So I guess I can see how other people, I definitely, what I've learned is that I have a very different. Set of things that annoy

Tanner 20:31

me. Yeah. Compared to

Andi 20:32

people. Yeah. Yeah. sometimes the simplest lie is the slickest lie. I like well, I, should have known. I

Tanner 20:39

have known.

Andi 20:40

Thanks for listening to this episode of, I Should Have Known Next week we're going to finish up the human body theme with a very special episode on aging. So I'll be on the lookout for that. And we are now on YouTube, and if you are watching on YouTube, do the whole YouTube thing, like share, subscribe. If you are watching on a typical podcast platform, please leave us a review. And yeah, let us know what you think is the most disgusting sound. I'm very curious about some other people's opinions and let us know if you got soup's, lie And as always, thanks. Oh, it's the speedy ones.