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World's Slowest Push-Up Record Might Not Carry Much Weight

For martial arts expert John Mirrione, the quickest way into the record books may be to do the world's slowest push-up. Mirrione, 45, is on a nine-city campaign to stop bullying in schools and feels the biggest way to be a hit is to avoid breaking boards and ripping phone books and, instead, doing a one-armed...

Let's Just Settle This Election With Knives

(Oct. 29) -- The tension between right and left is so tense, you could cut it with a knife. With that in mind, AOL Weird News consulted the world's greatest knife thrower for some answers. David Adamovich, better known as "The Great Throwdini," has broken 25 Guinness World Records, including one for tossing 144 knives...

Exclusive: Wheel of Death Made Deadlier [VIDEO]

(Oct. 8) -- When a knife thrower hurls blades around a woman secured to a spinning wheel, it's called the Wheel of Death. So what do you call it when that wheel is entirely hidden by a paper veil? Try modern history. That's what David Adamovich, better known as The Great Throwdini, the world's fastest and most accurate...

Watch Out, Guinness! Knife Thrower Aims for New Records Book

(Sept. 27) -- Never mess with a knife thrower. Especially one who owns 25 world records, like Dr. David Adamovich, aka The Great Throwdini -- The World's Fastest and Most Accurate Knife Thrower. Five years ago, that's just what Guinness World Records did. The publishing giant declined to accept Adamovich's first world...

Carving Tips From World's Fastest Knife-Thrower

NEW YORK (Nov. 25) -- Every Thanksgiving I find myself in the position of having to carve a turkey without really knowing how. This year, rather than wrestling with a cooked bird, I sought help from David Adamovich, a trained chef otherwise known as "The Great Throwdini -- the World's Fastest and Most Accurate...

Background on David Adamovich

David Adamovich Rigert () (born March 12, 1947, in the village of Nagornoye, Kokchetav Oblast, Kazakh SSR) is a former Olympic weightlifter for the USSR.

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