A Uruguay man living in Italy found himself with a Guinness World Records title thanks to an unusual party trick: popping his eyes out of their sockets, UPI reports.

Williams Martin Sanchez Lopez, who is from Montevideo, Uruguay, and currently lives in Milan, Italy, said he learned when he was about 8 or 9 years old that he was able to relax the muscles around his eyes and cause his eyeballs to pop out like a cartoon character.

Lopez's doctor performed official measurements and found his eyes could pop 0.74 inches (1.8 cm) out of their sockets, enough to earn him the title for the farthest eyeball pop (male).

"The funniest thing is when maybe a person doesn't realize what they're about to see, when I come close to them and pop out my entire eyeball in this way, people definitely don't just sit there and watch, but they basically jump two meters high," Williams said.