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Saturday, June 5, 2010

Tobacco Rally Day Around The World

Tobacco Rally

Margaret Hogge, the President of the Non-Smokers Movement of Australia, promotes a smoke free central business district message for Sydney on World No Tobacco Day on May 31, 2010. (AFP/Greg Wood) 31 May, 2010

Tobacco Rally

Workers carry a model of a 6 feet long smoking cigarette to install on the High street Phonexi mill compound at Parel to make awarness among people to quit smoking on the ''World Tobacco day'' in Mumbai on May 31, 2010. (BCCL/Sanjay Hadkar) 31 May, 2010

Tobacco Rally

An activist wearing a skull mask displays an oversize cigarette with tobacco warning message at a pan shop on the eve of World No Tobacco day in Karad, Maharashtra. (PTI) 31 May, 2010

Tobacco Rally

An activist wearing a skull mask displays an oversize cigarette with tobacco warning message at a pan shop on the eve of World No Tobacco day in Karad, Maharashtra. (PTI) 31 May, 2010

Tobacco Rally

Indonesian youths smoke cigarettes while hanging out in a park in Jakarta. (AFP)
31 May, 2010

Tobacco Rally

A two-year-old Indonesian boy Ardi Rizal puffs on a cigarette in the yard of his family home in a village on Sumatra Island. (AFP)
31 May, 2010

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Guinness World Records Truely Weird,Funny And Amazing


Anandita Dutta Tamuly smears ghost chilies, the world’s spiciest, in her eyes before gobbling them up during an attempt to enter the Guinness WorldRecords books, in Jorhat, India, April 9. British chef Gordon Ramsay is beside her. Organizers said the 28-year-old Indian woman ate 51 fire-hot chilies in two minutes.

Linda Wolfe, 68, of Anderson, Ind., shows off photos of a few of her ex-husbands. Wolfe, who has been married 23 times and holds the title of world’s most married person, said in February that she’s lonely and would love to walk down the aisle again, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

Lee Redmond’s record-length fingernails were broken in a car accident Feb. 10. The Utah woman’s nails, which hadn’t been cut since 1979, totaled more than 28 feet in length during a 2008 measurement. The longest nail, on her right thumb, was 2 feet, 11 inches.



Eric Hahn holds the record of world’s tallest mohawk at 27 inches.

Previously, Aaron Studham of Massachusetts set a record for highest hair, at 24 inches.

Khalil Semhat holds a giant potato he found on his farm near Tyre, Lebanon, for photographers on Dec. 6. He said he hopes the nearly 25-pounder will be a Guinness World Record.

Russia’s Svetlana Pankratova, the world’s leggiest woman, poses with China’s He Pingping, the world’s smallest man, in London in September. Pankratova’s legs are 4 feet, 4 inches long. He stands at 2 feet and 5.37 inches tall.

Last August, China’s Bao Xishun reclaimed the title of the world’s tallest man after Leonid Stadnik of Ukraine refused to be measured under new guidelines from Guinness WorldRecords. Bao is 7 feet, 8.95 inches.


Sandy Allen, who was known as the world’s tallest woman at 7 feet 7.25 inches tall, died Aug. 13 at a nursing home in Indiana. Before her death, Allen had been hospitalized for several ailments. She was 53.

Jackie Bibby of Texas earned a Guinness title for sitting in a bathtub with 87 rattlesnakes. Bibby broke his previous record by 12 snakes.


Elaine Davidson, a Brazilian who lives in Scotland, set the record for most body piercings at 4,250.


Tran Van Hay of Vietnam is thought to have the world’s longest hair, measuring over 20 feet, but it is unverified. He hasn’t had a haircut in more than 30 years.

Jianhua once held the record for lifting the most weight with an ear, but he was surpassed by Pakistan’s Zafar Gill. Guinness recognizes Gill for picking up a 135.7 pound weight with his ear in 2007.


Source : funlok

Friday, April 30, 2010

Extraordinary Indian Man With 12 Fingers 14 Toes

Extraordinary Indian Man With 12 Fingers 14 Toes

Haramb Ashok Kumthekar Indian man is proud of the 12 fingers and 14 toes which have put him in the record books.

Rather than feel self conscious about the way he was born, Haramb Ashok Kumthekar has always celebrated his extra digits.

The 24-year-old business graduate was born with six fingers on each hand and seven toes on each foot.

This means he is the unofficial record holder for the most recorded number of fingers and toes on a living person.

However, he does not hold the Guinness world record which is held by fellow countryman Devendra Harne, who has 12 fingers and 13 toes on his feet.

Haramb does not hold the official record because, technically, some of his fingers are attached and are not classed as separate digits.

However, he is recognised by the Indian equivalent of the Guinness Book of Records, the Limca Book of Records.

Haramb's extra fingers and toes are caused by the medical condition polydactlyism, which comes from the Greek for "many fingers".

While each of Haramb's extra fingers and toes have separate bones, they don't all boast nerve endings and he is unable to move them or feel them all properly.

Extraordinary Indian Man With 12 Fingers 14 Toes

And while he is proud of his extra digits, Haramb admits that it can be frustrating at times, especially when it comes to finding shoes for his feet or gloves for his hands.

Extraordinary Indian Man With 12 Fingers 14 Toes