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.

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).

The oldest living person smoked cigarettes from the age of 21 to 117.

French entertainer Michel Lotito ate an entire Cessna 150 airplane over a 2-year period (1978-1980), and consumed an estimated nine tons of metal during his career from 1966 to 1997.