Funniest Guinness World Records

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

On August 27, 1955, the first edition of the Guinness Book of Records was published. It was published by order of the Guinness Irish Brewing Company. In the first month, 5,000 copies of the book were sold, and a year later, sales crossed the 5 million mark.

At first, the book came out as a collection of serious records. Later, it began to include funny and strange achievements. We decided to share them with you.

Bridget Berends from Germany has the largest collection of toy penguins. It has 11,062 copies.

But Denis Tubanga from the USA has collected the largest collection of toy cows - 2,429 copies.

Jeff Van Dyck wore a record 227 T-shirts in Belgium in 2009.

In 2011, 57 people fit into the largest panties, the case took place in London.

American Kevin Shelley knocked 46 wooden toilet seats with his head.

Leslie Tipton climbed into a suitcase in a record amount of time. It was 5.43 seconds.

The record number of revolutions per minute - 141 - was accomplished with a hanging drill.

German Thomas Vogel managed to unfasten 56 bras in one minute.

Indian Ram Sing Chauhanu became the owner of the longest mustache in the world. Their length is 4.2 meters.

And Japanese designer Kazuhiro Watanabe wears the world's tallest hairstyle. The height of his mohawk is almost 113 centimeters.

Record holder Melvin Booth's nails are 953 centimeters long, and Lee Redmont has grown 865 centimeters.

The nature has endowed the dog with the longest ears, Harbor. The length of his left ear is 31.7 centimeters, and his right ear is 34 centimeters.

1,043 skiers are accommodated on the world's longest skis. Their length was 543 meters.

Jill Drake from Kent was able to scream with a sound power of 129 decibels. This is only 10 decibels less than the roar of a jet engine.

Using a computer and keyboards without letters, without looking at the monitor, the Italian Michel Santelia typed the text of 67 books in different languages, totaling 23198 pages. The stack of all the collected books was more than 4 meters high. The most interesting thing is that all the texts of the books were typed in the reverse order.

52-year-old American Cindy Jackson underwent a record number of plastic surgeries - 47. Among them there were 3 facelifts, 2 - to correct the shape of the nose, 2 - to tighten the skin near the eyes and correct the shape of their incision, as well as operations on the waist, knees, abdomen, jaw, thighs. The only thing that remained natural for Cindy is her lower lip.

American Alicia Richman holds the record for donating breast milk to charity. She passed 395 liters.