The man holding more Guinness World Records more than anyone reached the century mark by organizing a poetry reading. Lets have a look. STORY: This time, New Yorker, Ashrita Furman organized a reading of a poem in 111 languages. With this event, Furman now holds 100 Guinness World Records, an achievement no one comes close to matching. More than a hundred people read the poem at City Hall Park in lower Manhattan. The poem was recited in widely spoken languages like English, Dutch and Korean, to less well know languages like Bahkir, Galician, Inuktitut and Telugu. [Ashrita Furman, Guinness World Records Holder]: “I just love the Guinness Book of Records because it represents the best in the world that anyone has ever done. So you are sort of achieving something that’s never been done before.” A Guinness representative presented Furman with a plaque recognizing his 100 current Guinness World Record. So what exactly is the motivation for all these setting records? Is it ego? [Ashrita Furman, Guinness World Records Holder]: “In the beginning I have to say it was. It was a big, kind of almost an ego thing, but really at this point it’s really for the challenge of it, just purely to find something that seems almost impossible and then train for it and then do it.” Furman has been setting them from 1979 when he did 27000 jumping jacks. Since then the records have fallen for Furman in countless off-beat categories. From the fastest mile running with a milk on his head, numerous …

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