The Thai Book of Records has honored a foreigner for the very first time for demonstrating the ability to memorize thousands of items of data on March 26th at the Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok.

In addition, Vu also located places on a blank world map without any error.

Four officials from the Book of Records organization, a professor from Chulalongkorn University and 28 students witnessed and authenticated Vu’s superior retention.

The Thailand Book of Records awarded a certificate to recognize Vu setting the record for his outstanding memory. Vu is the second foreigner named in the Thailand Book of Records and is the only foreigner honoured for his memory.

On the same day, Vu registered to set a further record attempting to memorise more than 1,000 works of literature as well as remember and locate 20,000 geographic names on the map.

Vu comes from Ninh Thuan, a south central coastal province of Vietnam, has a Master degree and is now doing a Doctor degree./.

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