On cloud nine: Odisha straw boy' Manoj Moharana enters Guinness World Records

Bhubaneswar: Manoj Moharana, a youth hailing from Bhabarada village in Odisha’s Ganjam district, is now on cloud nine as he has broken the Guinness World Records title that stood unbeaten for eight years.

Manoj has set a new record by stuffing 459 drinking straws into his mouth and holding them for ten seconds.

Simon Elmore of United Kingdom had held the previous record by stuffing 400 straws during the Mark ‘n’ Simon Show in Germany.

Earlier, Manoj had stuffed 21 lit candles in his mouth during a show before the sub-collector on May 23, 2017. He had also tried to create record for stuffing most number of grapes into the mouth by stuffing 90 of them in one go.