Oral history
Stromboli remembers his record breaking flame swallowing trick
I use to take about that much and I would just drop it back into my throat and I got into the Guinness Book of Records with a hundred and thirty six flames with this small amount. What I use to do make it into gas, as the gas came up these were the big flames you would see them roaring out
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