Body Facts About World Records

The most common first name in the world for males is Muhammad (and its various spellings)!

Every three seconds, a new baby is born.

The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis — a 45-letter term that was deliberately invented to hold that very title!

A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately sixty-nine years.

The most push-ups ever performed in one day was 46,001 by Charles Servizio.

An Indian man known as "Snake Manu" can put small snakes, including deadly cobras, into his mouth and pass them out through his nose.

Roughly a quarter of the world's people live in China.

There are still 5 people living who were born in the 1800s - and they're all women.

If you were to roll a lung from a human body and out flat it would be the size of a tennis court.

In 1972, Vesna Vulović, a Serbian flight attendant, survived a fall of 33,330 feet when her plane exploded over Czechoslovakia. She held the Guinness World Record for the highest fall survived without a parachute until her death in 2016.

Angus Barbieri walked into a Dundee hospital at 27 weighing 456 pounds and asked doctors to help him stop eating until he was thin. They expected a few days. He lasted 382 days on nothing but tea, coffee, water, and vitamins, living entirely off body fat. He dropped to 180 pounds and kept the weight off for the rest of his life. The longest medically supervised fast in history.

There's a woman named Veronica Seider who had vision 20x better than average. She could identify people more than a mile (1.6km) away.

Australian Graham Barker has been collecting his own belly button fluff every day since 1984 - keeping it in storage jars.

The world record for alcohol consumption is by Andre the Giant, who drank 156 beers in one sitting (over 73 liters/16 gallons).

French entertainer Michel Lotito ate an entire airplane piece by piece. It was a Cessna 150. He chewed through it over two years, swallowing bolts, the propeller, the seats, the wings. Across his career he consumed roughly nine tons of metal plus glass, batteries, and rubber tyres. Doctors said his stomach lining was twice the thickness of a normal person's.