Unthinkable World Records That People Have Broken

The Longest Hair in the World

Xie Qiuping stopped cutting her hair when she was 13-years-old. She's done her best to take care of it so it'll grow as long as possible. When she won the world record in 2004. Her hair was over 18 feet long at that time. 

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The More You Know

  • A U.S. park ranger named Roy C. Sullivan held the record for being struck by lightning the most times, having been struck — and surviving — seven times between 1942 and 1977.
  • T-shirts were originally made for unmarried men who didn't know how to sew buttons on collared shirts.
  • The "Like" button on Facebook was supposed to be the "Awesome" button.
  • In 1945, Dwight D. Eisenhower predicted that people would try to dispel the holocaust as a falsehood, and ordered all possible photographs taken of the Nazi crimes to hinder any such attempts.
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