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.

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