A Russian woman named Valentina Vassilyeva and her husband Feodor Vassilyev are alleged to hold the record for the most children a couple has produced. She gave birth to a total of 69 children – sixteen pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets – between 1725 and 1765, a total of 27 births.
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The world's only nonuplets - nine babies born at the same time - have safely returned home to Mali after spending the first 19 months of their lives in Morocco. The babies broke the Guinness World Record for the most children delivered in a single birth to survive.
The youngest author in the world, Saeed Rashed AlMheiri of Abu Dhabi, holds the Guinness World Record at the age of 4 years and 218 days. "His record was verified on March 9, 2023, after he sold over 1,000 copies of his children's book The Elephant Saeed and the Bear.
If you have a certain skill and you want to try to break a record, surely one of the first questions that comes to your mind is how much they pay to make a Guinness World Record. Contrary to what many people believe, entering the Guinness Book of World Records does not have any type of economic compensation.
8 (UPI) -- An actor in the Philippines set what is believed to be an unofficial world record when he kept his eyes open without blinking for 1 hour, 17 minutes and 3 seconds. Paolo Ballesteros was competing against comedian Allan K as part of a segment on the Eat Bulaga!
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Guinness World Records – The most premature baby to survive is Curtis Zy-Keith Means (U.S.A.) who was born to Michelle Butler on 5 July 2020 at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital in Alabama, U.S.A. at a gestational age of 21 weeks 1 day or 148 days, making him 132 days premature.
A six-year-old girl has broken the kids' world record for having the longest hair. Jasmine Bains, from Littleover, Derbyshire, has never cut her hair before - and it now measures at a record breaking 1.2 metres in length. It runs down her back, going way beyond her knees.
Wondering what a 3-year-old can be capable of? You would be surprised to know that Darshan won the honour of getting his name in the International Book of Records by identifying 197 countries through just their flags in just 4.40 minutes.
According toBBC, Tembu Ebere lost some of his vision as he tried to cry nonstop for a whole week in a tear-shedding world record attempt. As a result, he suffered headaches, a swollen face, and puffy eyes before going partially blind for 45 minutes.
The World Record of “MOST NUMBER OF PUNCHES ON A PUNCHING PAD IN 30 SECONDS (GIRL)” is achieved by PRUSHTI GOSWAMI on 10th April 2022 from Vadodara (Gujarat) India. She punched 252 punches on a punching pad in 30 seconds and has set a new world record for the International Book of Records.
Meet Ashrita Furman
While he has set more than 600 official records, currently he holds 530 of them. He has been breaking records since 1979 and has done so across seven continents in more than 50 countries. Born as Keith Furman, he has been fascinated and obsessed with the Guinness World Records since his childhood.
The world record of longest kiss was set by a Thai couple Ekkachai and Laksana Tiranarat in 2013. Their kiss lasted for 58 hours 35 minutes.
The oldest person ever whose age has been independently verified is Jeanne Calment (1875–1997) of France, who lived to the age of 122 years and 164 days.
The Guinness World Record committee deducted nearly seven hours from that time because one of her allotted breaks lasted too long. But she still set a new record as her official time of 93 hours and 11 minutes surpassed the previous record of 87 hours and 45 minutes achieved in 2019 by Indian chef Lata Tondon.