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September 30, 2016

Strange But True!

Q. Can you name a few absolutely unbeatable feats? Maybe some records are meant to be broken, but not these.

A. Start with the hardest of kicks delivered to the most private of male body parts, says Nick Green in Mental Floss magazine. Martial artist Kirby Roy was on the receiving end of 1,100 pounds of “ouch” from a mixed martial arts fighter. (The kick moved at 22 miles per hour.) Roy had spent decades conditioning his own body “to calmly take these kinds of attacks without pain, and he hardly flinched. As one would imagine, formal attempts to break his records are few and far between.”


 
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