Spurred on by shouts of “shove it in, shove it in,” 19-year-old Ezra Nicholas set a world record by stuffing more than three McDonald’s hamburgers into his mouth – without swallowing – at the close of Singapore’s contest to be the world’s wackiest.

A 50-year-old man got a weekend of wacky world record attempts in Singapore off to a cracking start today when he became the fastest eater of dry biscuits in the world.