LONGEST-LASTING
HIP REPLACEMENT
As of 19 Nov 2015, the hip
replacement belonging to
Norman Sharp (UK) had
lasted 67 years 113 days.
In 1925, at just five years
old, Norman was admitted
to hospital with septic
arthritis. He spent five
years in the Royal National
Orthopaedic Hospital
(RNOH) having his hips
fused and learning to
walk again. It was another
18 years before he was
fitted with his left hip
replacement on 1 Dec 1948.
He then had his right hip
replaced on 22 Dec 1948.
Norman is shown above,
along with an x-ray of his
record-breaking left hip.The messages from your brain travel along the nerves in your
body at speeds of around 200 mph (322 km/h).Longest
bout of yawning
In 1888, Dr Edward W Lee
reported on the case of a
15-year-old girl who yawned
continuously for five weeks.
The case was published in
the Memphis Journal of
the Medical Sciences.Most prolific mother
The greatest officially
recorded number of
children born to one
mother is 69, to Valentina
Vassilyev, a peasant who
lived in Shuya, Russia,
during the 18th century. In
27 confinements, she gave
birth to 16 pairs of twins,
seven sets of triplets and
four sets of quadruplets.Most consecutive
generations of twins
Three families share this
record. Within the Rollings
family (UK) there have
been four consecutive
generations of twins,
born from 1916 to 2002.
The Taylor family (USA)
registered the same countSuperhumans Round-Up
LOUDEST CROWD ROAR AT AN INDOOR SPORTS EVENT
Fans of the Kansas Jayhawks (USA) combined to create a
roar that measured 130.4 dBA at the men’s basketball game
vs West Virginia in Lawrence, Kansas, USA, on 13 Feb 2017.
The successful record attempt actually took place before
the game tipped off. A tense match followed, ultimately
resulting in Kansas forcing a win in overtime.Longest time to restrain
two aircraft
Chad Netherland (USA)
successfully prevented
the take-off of two Cessna
light aircraft pulling in
opposite directions for
1 min 0.6 sec at Richard I
Bong Airport in Superior,
Wisconsin, USA, on
7 Jul 2007.Most operations endured
From 22 Jul 1954 to the end
of 1994, Charles Jensen
(USA) underwent a total of
970 operations to remove
a number of tumours
associated with basal
cell nevus syndrome.Highest percentage
of burns to the body
survived
Tony Yarijanian (USA)
survived third-degree burns
to approximately 90% of his
body after being caught in
an explosion in California,
USA, on 15 Feb 2004. Tony
was in a coma for three
months altogether, and
had 25 operations and
60 blood transfusions.from 1919 to 2002, while the
Sims family (UK) saw four
successive generations of
twins born between 1931
and 2013.Most Pi places
memorized
India’s Rajveer Meena
memorized Pi to an
astonishing 70,000 decimal
places, as demonstrated
at VIT University in Vellore,
Tamil Nadu, India, on
21 Mar 2015. Rajveer wore
a blindfold throughout the
entire recall, which took
nearly 10 hr to complete.SUPERHUMANS
Longest sequence
of binary numbers
memorized in one minute
On 3 Apr 2015, Aravind
Pasupathy (IND) memorized
a sequence of 270 binary
numbers in 60 sec at the
Kasthuri Sreenivasan Trust
in Coimbatore, India.Longest time to hold the
breath voluntarily (male)
Spain’s Aleix Segura
Vendrell held his breath
for a lung-bursting 24 min
3.45 sec in Barcelona, Spain,
on 28 Feb 2016. Aleix is a
professional freediver.WIDEST MOUTH
The mouth of Angola’s
Francisco Domingo
Joaquim – aka “Chiquinho”- measures 17 cm (6.69 in)
when unstretched,
although at full stretch
he can fit a 330 - ml ( 11 - US-
fl oda-oz) s can sideways
into his massive maw.
Chiquinho was discovered
at a marketplace in Angola
and invited by Guinness
World Records to be
measured on the
set of Lo Show
dei Record in
Rome, Italy, on
18 Mar 2010.
OLDEST DRAG QUEEN
As of 15 Aug 2016, Walter “Darcelle XV” Cole
(USA, b. 16 Nov 1930) remained an active
drag queen performer at the age of 85 years
273 days. He is the owner and operator of
Darcelle XV Showplace in Portland, Oregon.
The club hosts the
longest-running
drag show on the
west coast of the USA.LARGEST FEET
ON A LIVING PERSON
Jeison Orlando Rodríguez Hernández of
Venezuela has a 40.1-cm-long (1-ft 3.79-in)
right foot and a 39.6-cm ( 1 - ft 3.59-in) left
foot, as measured in Maracay, Aragua,
Venezuela, on 6 Oct 2014. Jeison – a keen
basketball player – stands 221 cm (7 ft
3 in) tall and is 21 years old. He lives in
Maracay with his family and
has spent much of his
life barefoot. He needs
specially large shoes- US size 26 – that are
hand-made for him
in Germany.
The largest feet
ever belonged to the
“Alton Giant”, Robert
Wadlow – find out
more on pp.66–67.