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15451. World Record Facts
At a single meal, obese New Yorker Walter Hudson could eat: 12 doughnuts, 10 packets of crisps, 8 Chinese take-aways and half a cake!
15452. World Record Facts
Charles Osbourne, from Iowa, USA, hiccupped every 1.5 seconds for 69 years and then suddenly stopped.
15453. World Record Facts
The most expensive coffee in the world is made with coffee beans recovered from the faeces of the civet, a type of wild cat from Sumatra.
15454. World Record Facts
Peter Dowdeswell of the UK ate a three-course meal in a record 45 seconds in 1999. He ate oxtail soup, mashed potatoes, baked beans and sausage, and then prunes.
15455. World Record Facts
Natasha Verushka of the USA holds the record for sword-swallowing; she swallowed 13 swords at a convention in 2004.
15456. World Record Facts
The biggest cockroach in the world is the Madagascan hissing cockroach. It can grow to 9 centimetres (3.5 inches) as long as an adult's finger.
15458. World Record Facts
The black-headed sea snake found north of Australia in the Timor Sea is 100 times more deadly than the most poisonous snake on land.
15460. World Record Facts
Marc Quinquandon, from France, set a world record by eating 144 snails in 11 minutes. He beat his own record when he ate 72 snails in 3 minutes, but he died soon afterwards.
15461. World Record Facts
Kevin Cole from the USA shot a strand of spaghetti out of his nose a distance of 19 centimetres (7.5 inches) in 1998.
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