The first Guinness Book of World Records, created by Norris and Ross McWhirter, was published on August 27, 1955, and since then it has compiled a long list of records — many amazing, some ridiculous, and other just bizarre.
How bizarre? Well, let’s take the example of an American, Donald A. Gorske, who ate 26,000 Big Mac’s, after 40 years of eating the burgers daily.
Another of those bizarre records belongs to this woman, Lee Redmond, with her 28-foot-long fingernails… 28 feet!
Lee stopped cutting her nails in 1979 and took care of them every day until reaching 28 feet in February, 2008… so, her nails have probably grown even longer since then.
But one of the most bizarre Guinness World Records belongs to a Brazilian woman with thousands of holes on her body. She’s Elaine Davidson, a nurse who has become famous as the holiest woman in the world, or the woman with the most piercings in the world.
If you walk the streets of Edinburgh, Scotland, you might bump into her and you can begin counting each one of her piercings. But you’d have to follow her all day to count all of her nearly 9,000 piercings… throughout her entire body!
But other records are… nicer? At least, not as bizarre, like the case of Konjo, the dog who holds the world record for having run 5 meters in the fastest time, 2.39 seconds… oh, did I forget to mention he does it running on his two front paws!?
What about the record of this Pekingese called Puggy, who has the longest recorded tongue in the world as of May, 2009, when he was 9 years old. If you want to know the length, it was almost 12 centimeters.
Other records seem to have come out of a radioactive laboratory, like this giant snail, who is the largest known gastropod, a giant African snail (Achatina Achatina), measuring 39.3 cm in length, with a 27.3 cm long shell and weighing 900 grams.
Although my favorite record belongs to Anita Schwarz, a beautiful German woman who managed to carry 19 pint glasses, over 40 meters, without spilling a single drop of the delicious beer. Since that day on November 9, 2008, nobody has been able to beat her record, but I know a few people who would offer to take some of that weight off of her hands.
