Monday, June 20, 2011

Oldest Person in the World







Guinness World Records can officially announce that Eugenie Blanchard has inherited the title of the oldest person in the world. Eugenie was born in St. Barts, France, on the 16th February 1896.
Eugenie, one of the few people now alive to have been born in the 19th century, spent most of life working as a nun.


She took the title from Kama Chinen who unfortunately passed away on the 2nd May 2010.

Cobourg man, son set Guinness World Record after pulling 72-tonne trucks






A Cobourg, Ont., strongman has pulled off another world record, but this time he had a little help from his son.
Reverend Kevin Fast and his 18-year-old son Jacob set the Guinness World Record for heaviest vehicle pulled by two people Saturday.They pulled two fire trucks 30 metres down Queen Street in Cobourg in 38 seconds as hundreds of people cheered them on.

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Smallest Tooth Extracted



A primary tooth (tooth E) extracted under local anaesthesis from Colton Laub (USA) on October 30, 2002 by Dr. Scott Harden (USA) at Fountain View Family Dentistry, Acworth, Georgia, USA, measured 3mm (0.1 in) long. The average length of a microdont tooth is 13 mm (0.5 in).

Oldest Married Couple - Aggregate Age

Thomas Morgan (b. Llantrisant, Glamorganshire, UK, May 4, 1786) married Elizabeth (b. Caerleon, Monmouthshire, UK, January 17, 1786) at Caerleon on May 4, 1809, They remained married for 81 years 260 days until Elizabeth's death on January 19, 1891. At this time Elizabeth was aged 105 years 2 days and Thomas was 104 years 260 days - an aggregate age of 209 years 262 days.

Largest Blood Donation


A blood donation drive organized by Dera Sacha Sauda held at Bapu Ji village, Sriganganagar, India on October 10, 2004 attracted 17,921 donors.

Longest Fingernails - Female

Lee Redmond (USA), who has not cut her nails since 1979, has grown and carefully manicured them to reach a total length of 8.65 m (28 ft 4.5 in) as measured on the set of Lo show dei record in Madrid, Spain, on 23 February 2008.
The longest nail is the right thumb: 90 cm (2 ft 11 in).

Smallest Waist on a Living Person

Cathie Jung's waist is about the same size as a regular jar of mayonnaise. She's been wearing a corset every day for the past 12 years, and she now wears one 24 hours a day. "I probably have around 100 of them," says the corset queen.