Dan Meyer:  

At Michigan City Rogers High School, I began coming out of my shell. I joined Choir, Minnesingers, German Club, swim team, was president of National Honor Society, and had bit roles in some of the school plays. I remember making my big debut at Bits 'N Pieces Talent Show singing "Yankee Doodle Dandy" while dressed in a white tux with white wing feathers, orange knee socks and orange webbed feet, playing guitar and singing in my Donald Duck voice... And I remember the standing ovation it got! Wow, was THAT a turning point! Today, I am a Sword Swallower with 35 World Records, 7 Guinness World Records, 4 Ripley's Believe It or Nots, and I get to speak and perform in 25+ countries around the world. In 2007 I was honored to win the 2007 Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine at Harvard for a medical research paper I co-wrote entitled "Sword Swallowing and its Side Effects" that was published in the British Medical Journal. In 2008, I made it on 7 episodes of America's Got Talent as the "Mos...Expand for more