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.

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).

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