In 1997, at Sydney airport, Australia, David Huzley pulled a 187-tonne Boeing 747-400 a distance of 91m. He had previously hauled a Boeing 737 and a Concorde.
In the annual Empire State Building Run-up, runners race up the famous skyscraper’s 1,576 steps. In 2006 Andrea Mayr of Austria set a new women’s record of 11 minutes 23 seconds. The overall record-holder is Australian athlete Paul Crake. In 2003, he got to the top in 9 minutes 33 seconds. He also holds the record for the Australian Sydney Tower Run-up.
In 2005, US arm-wrestler Ed Shelton ripped up 55 telephone directories, each 1,044 pages thick. It took him three minutes.
Australian Arulanantham Suresh Joachim holds many endurance records, including a drumming marathon (84 hours), the longest time standing still (76 hours 40 minutes), running 100 miles/ 161km on a treadmill (42 minutes 33 seconds) and crawling one mile/1.6km (37 minutes 17 seconds). In 2006 he announced his intention to run a mega-marathon through 54 countries in 181 days, a distance of over 6,000 km.
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Body records
Longest nails
Shridhar Chillai of pune, india (1937-) has not cut the nails on his left hand since 1952. By 2000 the total length of his nails on that hand was over 600cm.
Longest beard
Hans Langseth (1846-1927) had a beard that measured 5.33m. It has been in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA, since 1967.
Longest Moustache
Kalyan Ramji Sain of Sundargath, India, holds the record. His moustache measures 3.29m form tip to tip.
Longest hair
Swami Pandarasanndhi was the head of a monastery in madras, India. When his hair was measured in 1949 it was 7.9m long.
Longest sneezing bout
Donna Griffiths of Pershore, Worcestershire, started sneezing on 13 January 1981 and continued for 978 days.
Longest hiccupping
Charles Osborne of Anthon, Iowa, USA, hiccupped from 1922 to 1990.
Maths genius
When he was only eight years old, American Zerah Colburn (1804-40) worked out how many seconds had elapsed since the birth of Christ. He did this in his head within seconds. When zerah was asked whether 4,294,967,297 was a prime number (one that cannot be divided evenly by another number), he instantly replied that it was not – it is equal to 641 times 6,700,417.
Shridhar Chillai of pune, india (1937-) has not cut the nails on his left hand since 1952. By 2000 the total length of his nails on that hand was over 600cm.
Longest beard
Hans Langseth (1846-1927) had a beard that measured 5.33m. It has been in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA, since 1967.
Longest Moustache
Kalyan Ramji Sain of Sundargath, India, holds the record. His moustache measures 3.29m form tip to tip.
Longest hair
Swami Pandarasanndhi was the head of a monastery in madras, India. When his hair was measured in 1949 it was 7.9m long.
Longest sneezing bout
Donna Griffiths of Pershore, Worcestershire, started sneezing on 13 January 1981 and continued for 978 days.
Longest hiccupping
Charles Osborne of Anthon, Iowa, USA, hiccupped from 1922 to 1990.
Maths genius
When he was only eight years old, American Zerah Colburn (1804-40) worked out how many seconds had elapsed since the birth of Christ. He did this in his head within seconds. When zerah was asked whether 4,294,967,297 was a prime number (one that cannot be divided evenly by another number), he instantly replied that it was not – it is equal to 641 times 6,700,417.
