WATCH: Man sets jaw-dropping record for farthest eye pop!
Updated | By The Drive with Rob and Roz
This is not your average party trick.
Guinness World Records
The Guinness World Record (GWR) books are full of some crazy, fun and truly shocking records.
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The organisation says: "At Guinness World Records we want to show that everyone in the world is the best at something, and we’re here to measure it! Whether you’ve got the stretchiest skin, know the world’s smallest dog or want to create the largest human dominoes chain we want to hear about it."
Williams Martin Sanchez Lopez from Uruguay discovered that he had a unique talent early on.
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When he was between eight and nine-years-old, he was playing around with his friends at school when he realised he could do a fun trick with his eyes.
It started when I was a kid. I could basically move the upper and lower part of the muscles around my eyes, [and] over time I perfected my skill until at last I was able to move the eye completely out of its socket.
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Williams can pop out his eyeballs by relaxing the muscles around his eyes and safely pushing his eyeballs back in a process called 'protrusion'.
His talent has now officially landed him an acclaimed spot in the Guinness World Records.
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The officials and his doctor measured his orbital excursion length, which is 19mm, earning him the title of farthest eyeball pop (male).
The funniest thing is when maybe a person doesn’t realize what they’re about to see, when I come close to them and pop out my entire eyeball in this way, people definitely don’t just sit there and watch, but they basically jump two metres high. So then they ask me to do it one more time to see it better, because they are stunned by this thing that not everyone can do.
Feast your eyes on Williams' skills below:
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