Most of us know the golden rule of human survival: you can't go 3 minutes without oxygen, 3 days without water, 3 weeks without food. But there are people who pushed their bodies to the extreme limit. You could call them unusual word record holders... or maybe even superhuman! Like one man who held his breath for 24 minutes, another who went without water for 18 days. And you won't believe the record for how long someone went without food!

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