Magician David Blaine has set a world record by holding his breath for 17 minutes and four seconds on Oprah Winfrey's US TV show in Chicago.
The star was pulled from a water-filled sphere by divers and afterwards said he had achieved "a lifelong dream".
The previous record, which was 32 seconds shorter, was set in February.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7376101.stmBritish navvies have offered to bury him into 40 tons of setting concrete to help him stretch this record to a few months... or years...
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