World's Most Pierced Man

Guinness World Record holder for the 'Most Pierced Man', Rolf Bucholz of Germany, poses showing some of his 453 piercings in Dortmund

Today the Guinness Book of World Records officially acknowledged Rolf Buchholz, from Germany, as the most pierced man in the world. He will appear in the 2012 edition of this legendary book. This man is 52 years old, and he’s been consistently piercing his body for 11 years. He has a total of 453 piercings. 127 of them are in his face, 278 are in his genital area (whaaaaaat?), and I don’t know where the other 48 are. He also has a full body tattoo, which you can’t see in these pictures. You know what I find most interesting about this? This man has 453 piercings, but the most pierced woman in the Guinness Book of World Records, Elaine Davidson, has over 6,000 piercings.

Worlds Heaviest Baby Born by Indonesian Woman

An Indonesian woman has given birth to the heaviest baby ever born in the country, a boy weighing in at an eye-watering 19lbs. We take a look at some of the other extreme sizes and shapes the human body can reach.

Heaviest baby ever

Sadly, the heaviest baby ever born, in January 1979 in Ohio, USA, died after just 11 hours. The boy weighed 23lb 12oz. His Canadian mother, Anna Bates, was herself was an unusual woman at 7ft 5in tall.

The heaviest surviving newborn seems to have been a 22lb 8oz boy born to one Carmelina Fedele in Aversa, Italy, in September 1955.

Worlds Fastest Talking Female Record set by Fran Capo

Fran Capo - The World’s Fastest Talking Woman Guinness Record Holder - Comedienne - Adventurer - Author - Actress Motivational Speaker - Spokesperson - Host

Dubbed “Fast Talker Extraordinaire” by the Associated Press, comedienne Fran Capo doesn’t mind if you call her motor mouth. In fact, she’s proud of it! Fran Capo is The Guinness Book of World Records fastest talking female clocked at 603.32 words per minute. That’s 10 words a second! Her record also appears in Ripley’s Believe it or Not - 2006 Planet Eccentric book.
Her fast-talking, boundless energy, down to earth approach makes her easy to relate to and a fun quick witted TV guest. She has appeared on over 250 TV shows including; Good Morning America, Larry King Live, Last Call with Carson Daly, Inside Edition, ET, Ripley’s Believe it or Not, More than Human and Nick at Nite’s - Hi Jinx. She’s been heard on over 1000 radio shows including Howard Stern.

As a comedienne, Fran Capo has performed in major comedy clubs from Dangerfield’s in New York to the Tropicana in Las Vegas, and in Okinawa for the Marines. With her own novelty rap record, Rappin Mae she toured with LL Cool J and the Fat Boys.

On the corporate front, Capo is sought after not only as a motivational speaker and spokesperson but also as a featured author. Her topics include: How to Get Publicity without a Publicist, How to Break into Voiceovers, Dare to Do It, Humor and Business Speaking and Creativity in Marketing.

Fran has done commercials with characters ranging from a judge to the world’s oldest customer and spokesperson work for: Nissan, Pitney Bowes, Pudgies Chicken, GE Capital, Flexon Eyeglasses, 1-800-Flowers, Perdue Short Cut Entrees, Snickers Marathon Energy Bars, & Auntie Anne Pretzels.

As an actress and voiceover talent Fran has appeared in several movies and cartoons including Lonely in America, with Spike Lee and in the Sundance Film Festival winner, Sunday. Fran appears in “Signs of the Cross” which won both the 2005 Pocono film festival and the Long Island film festival for best picture.

Several authors have profiled Fran in their show business books including, Comic Lives by Betsy Borns and Revolutionary Laughter by Roz Warren. As a freelance writer, her motivational and adventure stories appeared in Carribean Magazine, Internet sites, Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul and the Random House book, Life’s a Stitch. Fran has a weekly blog called “Fran’s world” for the WB (http://www.mysweetconnection.com/).

As an adventurer Fran has bungeed, swam with sharks, flown combat aircraft, driven race cars, crawled in a Polar bear den, climbed Kilimanjaro and dove to the wreck site of the Titanic where she set a new world record as the first person to ever do a booksigning and memorial prayer down there…that record will appear in the 2007 Ripley’s Believe it or Not - Planet Eccentric book.

You can check out her audio tape Fran’s Fast Fractured Fairy Tales. Fran’s books include: It Happened in New York, Almost a Wise Guy, It Happened in New Jersey and Adrenaline Adventures. You can learn more about Fran and see a video at her website: http://www.francapo.com/.

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Teenager starts braying like a DONKEY after pregnancy triggers bizarre form of Tourette's Syndrome

A pregnant teenager with Tourette's Syndrome was stunned when she started braying like a donkey days after conception. Cody Hagel, 18, began suffering with the debilitating condition when she was 14 years old. For years she experienced between 10 and 20 leg twitches and head jerks a day but her 'tics' were never verbal.

But her family were shocked when Miss Hagel started to make donkey noises - more than 30 times a day - after becoming pregnant five months ago.

She revealed that she has also started to shout the word ‘yes’ and ‘haha’ as well as experiencing the tics she had before conceiving.

Pregnancy often alters the nature of Tourette's – sometimes eradicating it – although scientists are unsure why. The teenager lives with her father Dwayne and her mother Tanya on their farm in North Dakota. They keep two donkeys called Oliver and Rachel who might be responsible for the teenager's embarrassing affliction. She said: ‘It's a familiar sound on the farm so that probably explains why I've started to mimic it. I have my own theory why this has happened.  

‘My Tourette's started with the onset of puberty and I think my pregnancy hormones are probably to blame for the change in my tics.

‘The braying started pretty much immediately after I fell pregnant and I've been suffering with it ever since.

‘It is embarrassing but my family are very understanding. If people start looking awkward or staring it makes it worse. So they tend to act like it's completely normal.’

Miss Hagel, a first-time mother, told how she is nervous about passing on the tourettes to son Damien after he is born.

She said: ‘I've been told that if only one parent has tourettes the baby has a 50 per cent chance of developing it too.

‘I feel bad for him already. But at least if it does happen I'll be able to help him through it.’

Miss Hagel also told of her own experiences with the disorder and how she wants to raise awareness to educate people about tourettes.

She said: ‘At first it was fine. I developed the ticks and I was diagnosed when I was 14.

‘Other students at my school were fine with it once the teachers explained what was wrong with me.

‘But then I moved schools and people were not so understanding. Some would even come up to me and say 'what's wrong with you?'.

‘I couldn't explain in detail to each person what was going on and it was very frustrating.

‘I just want people to know what tourettes is and that people who suffer with it are normal like anyone else.’

A spokesperson from Tourette's UK said: ‘Research is unclear with regards to the effect of pregnancy on Tourette's - indeed in some women, improvements in tic severity have been reported but not in others.

‘The physiological effect of pregnancy may have had some effect on tic severity but it is really hard to know without formally assessing tics before and after pregnancy.’

WHAT IS TOURETTE'S SYNDROME?

Tourette's is is a neurological disorder characterised by repetitive, stereotyped, involuntary movements and vocalisations called tics.

Motor tics are sudden, brief, repetitive movements that involve a limited number of muscle groups. 

Vocal tics may include throat-clearing, sniffing/snorting, grunting, or barking. More complex vocal tics include words or phrases.

The disorder is named after Dr Georges Gilles de la Tourette, a French neurologist who in 1885 first described the condition in an 86-year-old French noblewoman.

The early symptoms of TS are typically noticed first in childhood, with the average onset between the ages of 3 and 9 years but it can occur later in life.

TS occurs in people from all ethnic groups; males are affected about three to four times more often than females.

Pregnancy often alters the nature of Tourette's – sometimes eradicating it – although scientists are unsure why. It is thought that changes may be due to different hormones.

Guinness World Record of Longest Hair 2012

Guinness World Record of Longest Hair 2012        

The 55-year-old woman Ni Linmei, who lives in Taiyuan, the capital city of Shanxi province, has become famous for her big braid in her community. She started growing her hair when she was 14, and it has grown to 2.53 meters long today. She says her hair grows 16.7 centimeters every year and she plans to apply to the Guinness World Records for longest hair in a few years. 

World’s Biggest Dog: George, 230-Pound Great Dane and Guinness Record Holder

World’s Biggest Dog: George, 230-Pound Great Dane and Guinness Record Holder, Featured in New Book by Owner [PHOTOS]

Just a day after the world's smallest dog Beyonce made her television debut, Dave Nasser, the owner of the world's biggest dog named George, released his new book about living with an almost five-feet-tall Great Dane.

The book, entitled "Giant George: Life with the World's Biggest Dog," hit bookstores on Tuesday after George was officially named the largest dog by Guinness World Records in 2010. And not just the largest dog, but George, 6, is the biggest ever recorded.

Nasser details what it's like living with George, who weighs 230 pounds and stands at four feet tall, seve-foot-three inches when standing. George eats more than 180 pounds of food a month and has to sleep on a queen-sized mattress in his Tuscon, Ariz. home, Nasser said.

Though he weighs more than 100 pounds more than the average Great Dane, George engages in many "normal" dog activities, Nasser said, from baking at the mailman to munching on food, like the two cups of rice, one cup of dog food, three quarters of a cup of chicken, and four or five tablespoons of yogurt he eats on a daily basis.

Nasser says he and his wife, Christie, were looking to adopt a puppy when theys tumbled upon a seven-week-old George, one of 13 puppies in Oregon.

"Twelve were entangled with one another, but our eyes were drawn to one pup standing apart from the rest. He was clearly the runt, endearing him to Christie immediately," Nasser said.

But this was certainly no runt, as the Nasser family later learned.

"At five months he still acted like a puppy, chasing his tail and playing games of fetch and tug-of-war with his favorite bit of rope. But he was already the size of a fully-grown Labrador," Nasser said, noting he outgrew his twin-sized mattress.

When George turned two-years-old, and weighed 252 pounds, a friend suggested that Nasser contact Guinness to see if his dog was the largest in the world.

"One of their adjudicators came to watch George being measured in the presence of a vet. He was officially declared not just the world's tallest living dog (43 inches from paw to shoulder) but the tallest dog ever," Nasser said.

After word got out that George was the world's largest dog, through the help of social media websites, he and the Nasser family appeared on talk shows like "The Oprah Winfrey Show."

"Without question, this was one of the most memorable moments for all of us. Oprah was super friendly and the segment was trouble free," Nasser said.

But for Dave Nasser, it was a feat to transport his giant dog from Arizona to film the shows. According to the New York Daily News, George took up an entire row of five seats on the airplane when flying to appear on "Live! With Regis and Kelly." George, however, is still quite a humble dog, despite his celebrity status.

It's hard work being this short: 21.5inch-tall Nepalese farmer, 72, is confirmed as world's smallest man

A 72-year-old Nepalese man who made big claims to being the smallest man in the world has finally been confirmed as a record breaker.

A doctor and Guinness World Records official headed to Nepal to measure Chandra Bahadur Dangi to confirm his height of 21.5 inches (54.6 centimeters), shorter than the length of a broadsheet newspaper, where they declared him the world's shortest person.

On Sunday, Guinness presented Dangi with two certificates for being the world's shortest living man and the world's shortest person ever recorded in Guinness' 57-year history.

Dangi lives in a remote mountain village in Nepal and says he now wants to travel across the country and abroad.

He overtook the previous shortest man Junrey Balawing of the Philippines, who is 23.5 inches (60 centimeters) tall.

He had claimed the title last year from Khagendra Thapa Magar, 18, whose height is 26 inches tall.

Dangi spends his days making placemats and head straps for villagers to carry heavy loads on their backs.

His nephew, Dolak Dangi, said: 'He would also look after the buffalos and cows.

'Although he could not chase them or tie them - he would call us if they strayed.'

Dangi hopes to use his new found fame to travel, admitting: 'I think things will be better now. I hope that I will be famous all over the world.

'I want to visit foreign countries and meet people from around the world.'

The cause of Mr Dangi's height problem has not been diagnosed but it is suspected that he suffers primordial dwarfism which begins in the womb.

World's tallest man stops growing after radiosurgery 2012

Sultan Kosen, recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's tallest man

 The world’s tallest man has finally stopped growing at 2.51 meters thanks to a pioneering treatment at the University of Virginia Medical Center (UVA).

Sultan Kosen, a 29-year-old Turkish man who is recognized by Guinness World Records as the tallest man in the world has been suffering from acromegaly, a condition caused by a tumor in the pituitary gland, which leads to excessive growth hormone production.

The rare condition which has caused several health problems for the patient could lead to his premature death, doctors said. 

“His skeleton just can't support him,” said endocrinologist and neurosurgeon, Dr. Mary Lee Vance who placed Sultan on a new medication that controls growth hormone production in 2010. Medication alone would not be enough, so Vance consulted with neurosurgeon Dr. Jason Sheehan to explore other options. 

According to the brain images, the tumor had spread to other areas of Sultan’s brain and its removal was not safe. 

Therefore, in April 2010 Dr. Sheehan performed a non-invasive procedure called Gamma Knife radiosurgery that delivered a focused beam of radiation guided by MRI to the tumor.  

Three months ago, Kosen's doctors in Turkey told Dr. Sheehan that the patient’s tumor had stopped growing and producing excessive growth hormone. 

 “I'm most pleased that we were able to help Sultan,” Sheehan said in a statement. “If he had continued to grow, it would have been life-threatening.”