15476. World Record Facts

The two smelliest substances are gross gases which the US government is investigating as possible weapons.They would be used to break up crowds without harming people. One is called ‘Who Me?' and the other ‘The US Government Standard Bathroom Malodor'.

15477. World Record Facts

Ciro Gallo of the UK holds the record for having concrete blocks broken on his chest with a sledge hammer, while lying on a bed of nails – 37 blocks weighing a total of 235.8 kilograms (519.8 pounds).

15478. World Record Facts

Ken Edwards of the UK ate 36 live cockroaches in one minute on a breakfast TV show in 2001.

15479. World Record Facts

The longest-lasting operation took 96 hours and was carried out in Chicago, USA, in 1951 to remove a giant tumour.

15480. World Record Facts

Dustin Phillips of the USA can drink a whole bottle of tomato ketchup through a straw in only 33 seconds.

15481. World Record Facts

Shridhar Chillal grew his fingernails for 44 years without cutting them. Their average length was 117 centimetres (46 inches), and his thumbnail was 132 centimetres (52 inches).

15482. World Record Facts

In 1999, American Scott Jeckel shot a marshmallow 4.96 metres (16.27 feet) out of his nose, with his friend Ray Perisin catching it in his mouth.

15483. World Record Facts

Robert Earl Hughes of Illinois, USA had the largest chest measurement ever recorded. He was 3.15 metres (10 feet 4 inches) around the chest when he died, aged 32. He weighed 484 kilograms (1,067 pounds).

15484. World Record Facts

The smallest fully-grown adult ever to live was Gul Mohammed of India, who was 57 centimetres (34.5 inches) tall at the age of 33 and weighed only 17 kilograms (37.5 pounds).

15485. World Record Facts

In 1976, American Jon Brower Minoch weighed 635 kilograms (1,400 pounds). He was so fat that it took 12 firemen to lift him out of his house when he fell ill, and 13 nurses to turn him over in bed. In fact, he had two beds strapped together as one wasn't big enough to hold him. He once put on 89 kilograms (196 pounds) in a single week.

15486. World Record Facts

The record for spitting a mouthful of tobacco is 16.23 metres (53 feet 3 inches), set in 1997.

15487. World Record Facts

The longest recorded eyebrow hair was 7.8 centimetres (3.1 inches) long.

15488. World Record Facts

The most poisonous fish in the world is the stone fish.Treading on its spines causes a painful death in 20 minutes.

15489. World Record Facts

A hairball weighing 2.53 kilograms (5 pounds 3 ounces) was removed from the stomach of a 20 year-old English woman in 1895.

15490. World Record Facts

The worst epidemic of all time was the Black Death – a plague carried by fleas that live on rats – which killed 75 million people in Europe and Asia between 1347 and 1351.

15491. World Record Facts

The largest ever kidney stone a solid mass of mineral that collects inside the kidneys – weighed 356 grams (12.5 ounces). It was removed from a man in Australia in 2003.

15492. World Record Facts

The longest leg hair grew on Australian man Tim Stinton – it was 12.4 centimetres (4.9 inches) long.

15493. World Record Facts

The winner of a fly-swatting contest in 1912 killed 543,360 flies, weighing a total of 96 kilograms (212 pounds).

15494. World Record Facts

Kim Goodman from the USA can ‘pop' her eyeballs out of their sockets so that they stick out 11 millimetres (0.4 inches).

15495. World Record Facts

Motorcycle stunt rider Evel Knievel of Montana, USA, holds the record for broken bones – he suffered 435 fractures while working as stunt rider.

15496. World Record Facts

Thomas Wedders, who lived in England in the 1770s, is said to have had a nose 19 centimetres (7.5 inches) long.

15497. World Record Facts

The youngest person to have a full set of false teeth was only 4 years old. He suffered from an inherited disease that destroyed his teeth.

15498. World Record Facts

American Robert Wadlow had the largest feet ever recorded.They were 47 centimetres (18.5 inches) long.

15499. World Record Facts

A man in Bulgaria who accidentally shot himself in 1942 still has the bullet lodged in his head.

15500. World Record Facts

Monte Pierce from the USA can stretch his left ear lobe to a length of 12.7 centimetres (5 inches).

15501. World Record Facts

Garry Turner of the UK can stretch a flap of skin away from his body to a length of 15.8 centimetres (6.25 inches). He has a medical condition that affects his skin making it super-elastic.

15502. World Record Facts

The longest beard ever was grown by Hans Langseth of Norway, whose whiskers stretched an incredible 5.33 metres (17.6 inches) when measured on his death in Kensett, Iowa, in 1927.The beard was presented to the Smithsonian Institution,Washington DC, in 1967.

15503. World Record Facts

Stephen Taylor from the UK can stick his tongue out 9.4 centimetres (3.7 inches) measured from the tip to his lips.

15504. World Record Facts

Shamsher Singh from India has the longest beard on a living man. In 1997, it was 1.83 metres (6 feet) long.

15505. World Record Facts

Thomas Blackthorne of the UK can lift 11 kilograms (24 pounds) of weights using just his tongue.

15506. World Record Facts

Rene Alvarenga of El Salvador has eaten 35,000 live scorpions. He catches them himself with his bare hands and eats 20 to 30 per day.

15507. World Record Facts

Giovanni Batista from Orsenigo, Italy, has a collection of more than 2 million human teeth.

15508. World Record Facts

Letchemanah Ramasamy from Malaysia has pulled a double-decker bus 30 metres (around 98 feet), using only his hair.

15509. World Record Facts

Wim Hof of the Netherlands exposed his whole body to ice for 1 hour 8 minutes using yoga and meditation to stop himself freezing.

15510. World Record Facts

Garry Turner of the UK once clipped 159 wooden clothes pegs to his face at the same time.

15511. World Record Facts

French man Michel Lotito is called Monsieur Mangetout (Mr. Eat Everything) because since 1959 he has been snacking on all kinds of glass and metal. He's eaten a computer, 18 bicycles, an aeroplane, 6 chandeliers, 15 supermarket trolleys, 2 beds, 7 TV sets and a pair of skis. In total, he's eaten more than 9 tonnes (1,984 pounds) of metal.

15512. World Record Facts

Two people from the USA share the record for sitting in a bathtub with 75 live rattlesnakes.

15513. World Record Facts

The largest recorded snail was an Africa giant snail 39.3 centimetres (15.5 inches) long.

15514. World Record Facts

The largest tumour removed in one piece from a living person weighed 137.6 kilograms (303 pounds) and was 1 metre (3 feet across). It weighed more than the woman it was growing inside.

15515. World Record Facts

Meng Xu of China can thread 20 needles in his mouth using just his tongue. He did it in 6 minutes and 45 seconds in 2003.

15516. World Record Facts

Zafar Gill of Pakistan can lift 51.7 kilograms (113 pounds 15 ounces) of weights with a clamp attached to his right ear.

15517. World Record Facts

The largest snail ever found was 39.3 centimetres (15.5 inches) long and weighed 900 grams (2 pounds).

15518. World Record Facts

The loudest recorded burp was produced by Paul Hunn of the UK in 2004. It measured nearly 105 decibels – as loud as a fast underground train whizzing past!

15519. World Record Facts

The largest rubbish tip in the world is Fresh Kills landfill, New York, USA. It is thought to contain 100 million tonnes (98 million tons) of rubbish and covers 1,200 hectares (3,000 acres).

15520. World Record Facts

A bootlace worm washed up on the shore of Scotland in 1864 was 55 metres (180 feet) long.

15521. World Record Facts

Clint Hallam from New Zealand has lost the same hand (the right one) three times – in 1984 it was cut off in an accident and doctors re-attached it; it was removed again in 1989 when it got infected; a new, transplanted hand was removed in 2001 after rejection problems.

15522. World Record Facts

American Gary Bashaw can mix chocolate powder and milk in his mouth and pour it out of his nose as milkshake. In 1999, he made a record-breaking 54 millilitres (1.8 ounces) of milkshake in one go.

15523. World Record Facts

Over a period of 40 years, American Charles Jensen had 970 operations to remove tumours (lumps), mostly from his face.

15524. World Record Facts

The worst flu epidemic ever came in 1918 at the end of World War I. It killed 21 million people – twice as many as died in the war.

15525. World Record Facts

A man known as Snake Manu, from India, swallowed 200 earthworms each at least 10 centimetres (4 inches) long in 30 seconds in 2003.

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