Fact Book

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

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

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.

15526. World Record Facts

Tom Leppard from the UK has his whole body tattooed with leopard spots, the spaces between being tattooed yellow. This makes him the most tattooed person in the world.

15527. World Record Facts

In 1999, Brad Byers of the USA swallowed 10 swords each 68.5 centimetres (27 inches) long, and rotated them through 180 degrees in his throat.

15528. World Record Facts

A British woman has 2,520 body piercings including a hole in her tongue large enough to poke a finger through.

15529. World Record Facts

Marco Hort of Switzerland can fit 258 drinking straws in his mouth at the same time.

15530. World Record Facts

Kama Muk of the UK bravely had 600 new body piercings in a single day in 2002.

15531. World Record Facts

The fattest man in the world, Walter Hudson of New York, USA, had a waist measurement of more than 3 metres (9 feet 11 inches).

15532. World Record Facts

The longest recorded snake was a python 10 metres (35 feet 9.5 inches) long.

15533. World Record Facts

At the largest frogs' legs eating festival ever, in Florida, 2001, 13,200 people ate 3,000 kilograms (6,600 pounds) of frogs' legs fried in batter.

15534. World Record Facts

The heaviest living snake is a Burmese Python that weighs nearly 183 kilograms (403 pounds) and is 71 centimetres (28 inches) round. It lives in a safari park in the USA.

15535. World Record Facts

The fastest eater is the starnosed mole. It can identify something as edible, catch and eat it in 120 milliseconds.

15536. World Record Facts

The largest jellyfish was 2.28 metres (7 feet 6 inches) across the body and had a tentacle-span of 36.5 metres (120 feet).

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