Top Ten Strange Guiness World Records for 2006
Now that exams are over I have time to do things like read the Guiness Book of World Records for 2006. I didn't read them all... I don't have that kind of attention span... but here are 10 of the more interesting ones I read:
1. Most Valentine cards sent to a guinea pig: 206. They were sent to a guinea pig in the UK that had become famous for fathering 43 piglets with 24 partners in one evening.
2. Smallest dog: A chihauhua in the US measuring 6 inches from tail to nose. So it's about as long as a guinea pig.
3. Most gender reassignment surgery: Fulvia Celica Siguas Sandoval has had 64 operations since 1979 to complete her transformation from man to woman. She's a TV clairvoyant in Lima, Peru, and she has run for mayor in Lima.
4. Most Big Macs Consumed: Donald Gorske of the USA ate his 20,500th Big Mac on March 27, 2005. He's eaten them every day for 33 years. They had a picture of this guy and he looks fairly healthy. His hair's really long though.
5. Most layers of paint on a baseball: Michael and Glenda Carmichael of Indiana have painted a baseball approximately 18,000 times since 1977 and it now has a circumference of 9 feet and 1 inch. This sounds like something I'd do. Maybe I should start painting something.
6. Farthest Distance to Squirt Milk: Ilker Yilmaz of Turkey squirted milk from his eye to a distance of 9 feet 2 inches in Istanbul, Turkey. Um... I have questions about this. First, how did he accumulate milk in his eye? How does someone store any kind of fluid in thier eye. And how do they make it go 9 feet? Someone should try this and let me know...
7. Longest living goldfish: A goldfish named Tish in the UK lived 43 years. I need to talk to these people... any goldfish I've ever had has lasted about 2 weeks. By the way, there's a cat on this page that lived for 37 years 6 months, a dog that lived for 29 years 5 months, and a horse that lived for 62 years.
8. Longest hot dog: Students in South Africa made a hotdog (unbroken) that measured 34 feet 5.25 inches... Yeah they made the weiner but where are you going to find a 35 foot bun??
9. Most scorpions eaten: A guy in El Salvador named Rene Alvarenga has eaten about 35,000 scorpions. He catches them live with his bare hands and eats 20-30 every day.
10. Longest Kiss: Louisa Almedovar and Rich Langley kissed for 30 hours, 59 minutes, and 27 seconds at the studio of the Ricki Lake Show in 2001. This is messed up. Seriously. How much of someone else's saliva do you swallow in 31 hours and what would their breath be like? Did anyone have to go to the bathroom? It says they stayed standing the whole time.
1. Most Valentine cards sent to a guinea pig: 206. They were sent to a guinea pig in the UK that had become famous for fathering 43 piglets with 24 partners in one evening.
2. Smallest dog: A chihauhua in the US measuring 6 inches from tail to nose. So it's about as long as a guinea pig.
3. Most gender reassignment surgery: Fulvia Celica Siguas Sandoval has had 64 operations since 1979 to complete her transformation from man to woman. She's a TV clairvoyant in Lima, Peru, and she has run for mayor in Lima.
4. Most Big Macs Consumed: Donald Gorske of the USA ate his 20,500th Big Mac on March 27, 2005. He's eaten them every day for 33 years. They had a picture of this guy and he looks fairly healthy. His hair's really long though.
5. Most layers of paint on a baseball: Michael and Glenda Carmichael of Indiana have painted a baseball approximately 18,000 times since 1977 and it now has a circumference of 9 feet and 1 inch. This sounds like something I'd do. Maybe I should start painting something.
6. Farthest Distance to Squirt Milk: Ilker Yilmaz of Turkey squirted milk from his eye to a distance of 9 feet 2 inches in Istanbul, Turkey. Um... I have questions about this. First, how did he accumulate milk in his eye? How does someone store any kind of fluid in thier eye. And how do they make it go 9 feet? Someone should try this and let me know...
7. Longest living goldfish: A goldfish named Tish in the UK lived 43 years. I need to talk to these people... any goldfish I've ever had has lasted about 2 weeks. By the way, there's a cat on this page that lived for 37 years 6 months, a dog that lived for 29 years 5 months, and a horse that lived for 62 years.
8. Longest hot dog: Students in South Africa made a hotdog (unbroken) that measured 34 feet 5.25 inches... Yeah they made the weiner but where are you going to find a 35 foot bun??
9. Most scorpions eaten: A guy in El Salvador named Rene Alvarenga has eaten about 35,000 scorpions. He catches them live with his bare hands and eats 20-30 every day.
10. Longest Kiss: Louisa Almedovar and Rich Langley kissed for 30 hours, 59 minutes, and 27 seconds at the studio of the Ricki Lake Show in 2001. This is messed up. Seriously. How much of someone else's saliva do you swallow in 31 hours and what would their breath be like? Did anyone have to go to the bathroom? It says they stayed standing the whole time.
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