Record Facts

The most children born to one mother is reportedly 69, attributed to Valentina Vassilyeva, an 18th-century Russian peasant. Over approximately 40 years (1725-1765), she gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets across 27 pregnancies.

The world's tallest snowman was created in Bethel, Maine in 2008. It measured in at 122 feet / 1 inch and weighed 13,000,000 lbs.

Canada contains approximately 60% of the world's lakes, with an estimated 2 million lakes scattered across its landscape. It also holds the largest area of intact forest remaining on Earth.

Rattlesnake mating sessions have been known to last more than 22 hours.

The most orgasms recorded in an hour during clinical observation were 134 for a woman and 16 for a man.

The world's tallest man ever recorded, Robert Wadlow, reached 8 feet 11.1 inches and was still growing when he died at age 22.

The longest Monopoly game in a bathtub lasted 99.5 hours!

The most yolks ever found in one chicken egg was nine.

The largest earthworm on record was found in South Africa and measured 22 feet.

The Guinness Book of Records was originally published by Guinness Breweries as a reference for settling bar arguments.

In 1999, residents of Bethel, Maine in America built Angus, King of the Mountain, which was the world's tallest snowman at the time, standing at 113 feet and 7 inches tall.

The world's shortest man measures only 21.5 inches.

The longest Monopoly game in history lasted 70 straight hours.

Basketball great Wilt Chamberlain never fouled out of a game.

The world's tallest Christmas tree in 1950 stood 212 feet high at Northgate Mall in Seattle, Washington—a record for its time.

The best recorded distance for projectile vomiting is 27 feet.

More people have seen David Copperfield perform live than any other solo performer in history, with over 40 million tickets sold worldwide.

Chanel Tapper, a student from California, USA, has the world's longest tongue, measuring 9.75 cm (3.8 inches), from tip to top lip!

In 1982, a high school student from Los Angeles, California unscrambled the Rubik's Cube in 22.95 seconds.

The city of Las Vegas has the most hotel rooms in the world.

Zeus, a Great Dane, was crowned the world's tallest dog in 2012. Measuring a whopping 1.11 meters (3'8") from shoulder to foot, he stood at an amazing 2.2 meters (7'3") in height on his hind legs.

The flea can jump 160 times its body length horizontally, which is like a human jumping the length of 2 football fields.

The tallest wave in history was the 1958 Lituya Bay megatsunami, reaching a height of 1,720 feet (524 meters).

Thumbelina, the smallest horse in the world, is about the size of a dog.