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throwing knives in one minute', 'Most swords swallowed underwater', 'Most blowtorches extinguished with the tongue in one minute (temperature of flames reached 1995 °C / 3623 °F)'. His achievement of swallowing 17 swords in 2009 was voted by
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recorded that he broke this official world record by swallowing 18 swords. He also broke the longest distance pulling 411 kg by fishhooks in his eye sockets. He also holds the record for heaviest weight lifted while swallowing a sword. Other records include 'Fastest arrow caught blindfolded',
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items including some of the world's most rare and unusual oddities. These include his earliest item, Ditto, the double-bodied duckling, a two-headed cow named Daisy and Maisy, an albino kangaroo, extreme body modification skulls from Peru, shrunken heads from
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Hultgren holds many "world firsts" such as first double sword swallow, first sword swallow underwater, and his signature trick "The Black and Decker
Digestion Wrecker" a power drill with sword attachment which he swallows, and first person to publicly swallow a sword underwater in a tank of live
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Hultgren is 'Australia's most prolific record breaker' and as of July 2016 he held 44 official 'Guinness World
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Due to an internal deformation medically known as congenital division of the stomach, the lower half of his stomach has been replicated and sits lower than the average human stomach, allowing him to swallow longer swords. He can swallow the entire length of a 72 cm sword blade.
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His first record broken was most swords swallowed (17 at once), then broke that record again, this time scoring 27 swords at the Irish Street
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newspaper stated that the "Two-time world champion, quadruple
Guinness World Record-holder, built out of muscle, tattoo ink and piercings, the Space Cowboy gathers crowds that nobody else in Edinburgh can muster without a seat on
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bearded women and a young child with lobster hands. He regards this as a traveling "Museum of
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website when he broke a world record in Dublin by swallowing 27 swords decorated with the flags of all the countries in the
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Hultgren lives in Byron Bay, Australia with his partner, Zoe Ellis (A.K.A: Zoe L'amore). They have one daughter, Scarlett
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