STRANGEST

Longest time controlling a football with the soles while on the roof of a moving car – 93 secs

No joke… Ash Randall makes a living from it as a footballer freestyler. The 29-year-old from Cardiff also holds the record for most football step-overs in a minute.

Oldest performing flying trapeze artist - 84 years, 249 days

Betty Goedhart only took up trapeze classes aged 78. Betty, from California, has always believed that she could accomplish anything with hard work and determination.

Most body modifications (male) – 516

Rolf Buchholz 59, from Dortmund, Germany, got his first piercing nine years ago. Now he is covered in the world’s largest collection of tattoos and piercings and might add yet more, if he can find room.

Oldest professional club DJ - 83 years, 188 days

A restaurant owner and cook by day, by night, Sumiko Iwamura, 83, from Tokyo, morphs into rock-star DJ Sumirock. Sumiko says: “Doing something totally different is energising”.

Largest knitting needles – 4.4m

Artist Betsy Bond doesn’t even knit – but created these wonders for an exhibition. Betsy, 31, from Wiltshire, says: “Everybody has potential if you keep striving. Give it a go, what’s the worst that can happen?”