When 138 people joined hands in the middle of an 18,500-foot skydive in Illinois earlier this month (video below), they formed neatly into a snowflake-shaped formation and set a world record for largest formation, beating the previous record of 109 people set in 2009.
The record-setting jump looks seamless, but it took 15 attempts and three days to get it right.
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