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.

15457. World Record Facts

Monte Pierce of the USA can flick a coin 3.3 metres (10 feet 10 inches) with his earlobes.

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.

15459. World Record Facts

Leonardo d'Andrea from Italy smashed 32 watermelons with his head in 1 minute in 2005.

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.

15462. World Record Facts

The biggest beetle in the world is the dung-eating Goliath beetle it's about the size of a hamster!

15463. World Record Facts

The loudest recorded scream was 129 decibels, made by Jill Drake of the UK at a Halloween celebration in 2000.

15464. World Record Facts

In 2005, Matthew Henshaw from Australia swallowed a sword 40.5 centimetres (15.9 inches) long, and hung a sack of potatoes weighing 20 kilograms (44 pounds 5 ounces) on its handle for 5 seconds.

15465. World Record Facts

In 1998, 13 year-old Daniel Canal of Miami, USA, received 12 transplanted organs in only 3 weeks.

15466. World Record Facts

By March 2005,American Donald Gorske had eaten 20,500 Big Macs. He has eaten at least one a day for 33 years.

15467. World Record Facts

Gordon Cates of the USA holds the record for kissing poisonous snakes. He kissed 11 cobras in 1999.

15468. World Record Facts

A Japanese woman holds the record for having most worms removed from her stomach; doctors removed a total of 56 in 1990.

15469. World Record Facts

A woman who worked on smelly feet in a testing laboratory had to smell 5,600 feet over 15 years.

15470. World Record Facts

Danny Capps holds the record for spitting a dead cricket out of his mouth, reaching a distance of 9.17 metres (30 feet).

15471. World Record Facts

Michael Lloyd of the USA holds the record for kicking himself in the head 42 times in a row!

15472. World Record Facts

Tom Shufflebottham charmed 511 worms out of the ground at a worm-charming championship in England in 1980.

15473. World Record Facts

In 1997, an Egyptian boy of 16 was found to have his unborn identical twin growing inside him. It had died at about 32–33 weeks old and was 45 centimetres (18 inches) long.

15474. World Record Facts

Norman Gary of the USA held 109 live honey bees in his mouth for 10 seconds in 1998.

15475. World Record Facts

Hu Saelao of Thailand has not cut his hair for more than 70 years.

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