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Thursday January 31, 2008

A dog set a world record for walking up stairs, while balancing a glass of water on its head on The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Swee’Pea showed off her amazing talent on an Oprah Special that showcased the talents of a number of unique record holders.

The 10-year-old border collie/Australian shepherd wowed Oprah by climbing stairs, with a glass of water balanced on her nose.

Swee’Pea also showed off another unique talent, and another record she owns. In 2007, she set a world record for the most rope skips by a dog in one minute, jumping 75 times in 60 seconds.

Oprah’s audience cheered as Swee’Pea showed off her hopping skills in front of an amazed Oprah.

Swee’Pea wasn’t the only record breaker on the show.

Leslie Tipton, a professional contortionist, wriggled her way into the Guinness World Records books for being the fastest person to get into a suitcase and zip it up from the outside.

The 37-year-old Californian completed the feet on the show in just over 9 seconds, prompting Oprah to say: “This is a talent I didn’t even know existed.”

Cathie Young, a 70-year-old mother of three boasts the smallest waist in the world at just 15 inches.

Cathie admitted that she got her minute waist by constantly wearing a corset. “I wear my corset 24 hours a day and I only take it off to shower.”

Kent French had a unique record of 721 claps per minute, and gave the audience a demonstration of his ability to clap 14 times per second.

Fan Yang also made an appearance on Oprah, and showed off his unique talent of blowing bubbles.

He broke his own record on the show of being able to fit 42 people in a bubble.

He managed to squeeze 100 people, blowing his record out of the water.

Finally, Karate master Kenneth Lee showed his unique talent of being able to slice apples that are thrown in the air in half with a samurai sword.

Lee managed to slice 24 apples in a minute and also broke a world record.