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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.
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).
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.
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).
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.
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