Guinness World Records can confirm that Chandra Bahadur Dangi from Nepal is the world’s new Shortest Living Man, measuring 54.6cm (21.5 in).
The record to beat was set by Vipin Seth (India) who was covered by a mantle of bees weighing 61.4 kg (136 lb 4 oz). It was calculated that 613,500 bees comprised the mantle.
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British centenarian Fauja Singh hopes to become the oldest person ever to run a marathon in Toronto this weekend.
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The Eiger’s peak is 13,029 ft (3,970 m) and is located in the Bernese Alps in Switzerland. This video shows Ueli Steck beating his previous record of 4 hours by basically an hour. Keep in mind the first ascent of this face was first done in three days, so this guy is basically sprinting up the mountain.
Bride Elena De Angelis’ wedding dress has entered the record books for having the world’s longest veil.
A whopping 3km long, 28 times the length of Manchester United’s Old Trafford pitch, it took dozens of seamstresses several months to create.
Elena wed in Italy on Thursday, with scores of helpers needed to help keep the veil off the ground.
She was driven to the church in a cream open-top classic car with her veil stretching down the street behind
She’s from Romania, her name is Rifca Stanescu, she’s a member on the Gypsy ethnic community, and she’s only 23 years old. She ran away with her husband when she was 11, gave birth to her first child Maria when she was 12, and Maria, who married at 10-years-old, gave birth to her own son Ion one year later.
