A Swedish man set a record with 81 matches in his nose to the admiration of his children (2 photos)

42-year-old Swede Martin Streby proved that sometimes a record can be something you never even suspected.





He entered the Guinness Book of World Records by sticking 81 matches up his nostrils at once, breaking the previous record. The previous record stood at 68.

The achievement has a family history. Streby admitted that he never considered himself capable of becoming "the best in the world" at anything. And everything changed when the children were leafing through a collection of records with him.

"I thought: maybe there's a record that's just right for me?" Martin recalls. That's where the experiments began.



It turned out that his nostrils stretched very well, and his pain threshold allowed him to endure things that most people would find difficult to imagine. The main obstacle was the matches constantly falling out. "I'd insert three, and one or two would pop out," Strebi laughs. Over time, he developed his own technique, and things took off.

The end result: a new record, a pile of matches, and happy children who, Martin now believes, admire their dad, just as he once admired his own.