10 Bizarre YouTube Challenges You Should Try at Home

1. 1. The Cereal Challenge

   Fact: An average bathtub can hold about 75 gallons of water (or in this case, milk). So pace yourself.

2. 2. The Tea Bag Challenge

   No, this isn't what you think it is. Watch what happens when two guys try to devour the contents of a tea bag, sans hot water.

3. 3. The Diet Coke and Mentos Challenge

   When the guy had trouble keeping just the Mentos in his mouth, it was a sign of bad things to come. One piece of wisdom in this video: try this one outside, kids.

4. 4. The Sprite and Bananas Challenge

   Despite the fact that this so-called challenge has propagated itself across YouTube, its results have always been less than spectacular. Here's a big surprise -- eating two bananas and a can's worth of Sprite isn't a recipe for vomit so much as a tasty bag lunch.

5. 5. The Gum Challenge

   Just in case you always dreamed of your tombstone reading: "Choked to death on a wad of Juicy Fruit roughly the size of a human heart."

6. 6. The Chicken Nugget Challenge

   If you like chicken nuggets and sexual innuendo, then this might be the challenge for you.

7. 7. The Salt and Ice Challenge

   It can't burn that bad... can it? Better try it out just to be sure.

8. 8. The Baby Food Challenge

   There are two takeaways from this video. 1) Some baby food is good and we should eat it all the time; and 2) you can probably feed your baby cat food.*

   *Don't do that. Ever.

10. 10. The Impossible Challenge

    As a reward for getting to the end of this list, we now present the most grueling, strenuous, challenging feat of all. Tremble in fear before this impossible task. Are you man enough?

By now, you're familiar with the cinnamon challenge. Maybe you know someone brave enough to ingest a spoonful of cinnamon on film. Or perhaps you were foolhardy enough to try it yourself. There's even a chance you heard about some of its health risks.

But you can still get your kicks without endangering your health. And heaven knows YouTube is the place to embarrass yourself — er, experiment.

These 10 challenges replace cinnamon with an equal amount of hacking, gagging or worse. Among the videos you won't see listed here: the Taco Bell challenge, the Greek yogurt and root beer challenge or the condom challenge (we can't advocate suffocating yourself with a strip of latex).

We worked to compile 10 of the most extraordinary and demanding challenges, or at least the videos in which participants make the best faces. Check out the gallery above for a full rundown of Internet champions.

Did your favorite challenge make the list? If not, let us know in the comments.

Note: If you do try these challenges at home, please don't choke. Kthanksbye.

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