Guinness World Records Facts

The world's shortest man measures only 21.5 inches.

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

Mike the Headless Chicken lived for 18 months after a Colorado farmer swung an axe in 1945. The axe missed his jugular vein and left most of his brain stem and one ear intact. Farmer Lloyd Olsen kept him alive by feeding him with an eyedropper. Scientists at the University of Utah examined Mike and confirmed the story was real. Fruita, Colorado still holds a festival in his honor every May.

The smallest park in the world is a two-foot circle in Portland, Oregon.

George was the world's largest dog who weighed 233 pounds, stood at 43 inches tall from paw to shoulder, and ate 180 pounds of food a month.

Roy Sullivan, a US park ranger, was struck by lightning 7 times between 1942 and 1977 - and survived every one. The bolts burned off his eyebrows, set his hair on fire more than once, seared his shoulder, and blew the nail off one toe. He took to carrying a can of water in his truck to put himself out. Co-workers started avoiding him in storms. Guinness lists him as the most lightning-struck person in history.

John Cena has granted more Make-A-Wish requests than any person in the foundation's history - 650 wishes, a Guinness World Record. No other celebrity has ever reached 400. He started in 2002, hit 500 in 2015, and his total is more than three times higher than anyone else who has ever tried. 'There is no more humbling experience,' he said, 'than a child who could ask for anything in the world asking to meet me.'

Microsoft built a room so quiet it measures -20.35 dBA - well below the threshold of human hearing. The walls absorb everything. Your body fills the silence: heartbeat, breathing, stomach, the buzz of your own inner ears. Visitors lose their sense of balance. You become the sound.

A lost sheep named Chris wandered the Australian bush near Canberra for more than five years without being shorn. When RSPCA workers found him in 2015, his fleece had grown to more than 40 kilograms - enough wool for 30 sweaters. Champion shearer Ian Elkins needed 42 minutes to remove it. Chris survived, broke a Guinness World Record, and lived four more years.