Archive for the ‘World Records’ Category
The world’s highest swing has been set up on an 1,100ft (335m) TV tower in China.
The swing is set on a 700ft (213m) high viewing platform on the tower in Harbin city, Heilongjiang province. Participants sit on the steel seat and swing out over the city, beyond the edge of the platform. The swing is called “Game for brave people”, reports Harbin Daily. The tower is the world’s second-highest steel tower, after the Kiev tower in Ukraine.
Elaine Davidson is the world record holder for body piercing in the Guiness Book of Records.
She is a former nurse from Brazil , first broke the record in May 2000, when a Guinness World Records official examined her and found 462 piercings on various parts of her body, including 192 on her facial area alone.
She currently has 3,920 body piercings and tattoos. ‘People often just want to look at me or touch me - some even want to kiss me’,she said.
The longest human tongue ever recorded was that of Stephen Taylor and measures 9.5 centimetres (3.74 inches).
Stephen Taylor (UK) has a tongue that measures 9.5 cm (3.74 in) from the tip to the centre of his closed top lip. It was measured on the set of ‘Lo Show dei Record’ in Milan, Italy on January 5, 2006.
The longest tongue for a female is that of Annika Irmler at 7 centimetres (2.76 inches).
German schoolgirl Annika Irmler has licked her way into the Guinness Book of Records with her whopping seven centimetre tongue.
“My friends always said I had an incredibly long tongue - I could make lots of money with it one day,” said Annika.
The twelve-year-old from Tangstedt, near Hamburg, can lick the ice cream from the bottom of a cornet - while her friends have to use their fingers.
Stick it out
“I’m just proud that now people everywhere can read about me and my tongue,” she said.
“On my first day at school I had to stick my tongue out for everyone.”
Source:bbc.co.uk