The Human Extremes: World’s Most Amazing People

Here’s a list of men and women with the most prolific human body or body parts. You may either like them or envy them. In some cases you may even hate them or even pity them.

People are truly unique from each other. Some people would always want to be different from others. While some people don’t want to be different but due to some reason or reasons, unavoidable or even unexplainable factors they tend to be different. Find out some people with the most unusual human body or body parts.

Some of these people became instant celebrities. They became famous worldwide.

1.) Lip Stretching and Plate Insertion

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The practice of stretching the lips by piercing them and inserting plates or plug in some parts of Ethiopia is quite common for women. Mursi women wear lip rings on occasion that may reach 15 cm or 5.9 inches in diameter.

2.) World’s Most Pierced Woman

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Elaine Davidson is the “Most Pierced Woman” with 6,005 piercing. In her face alone it has 192 and has 500 piercing inside and outside her genitalia, more than in any other part of the body. The total weight of her jewelry is estimated to be about 3 kilograms.

3.) People with the Longest Necks

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The women of the Kayan tribe of Myanmar and Thailand look like aliens. They adorn their necks with brass coils which make them developed exceptionally long necks. Their custom prescribes that girls before puberty begin to wear coils that are augmented until they weigh as much as 11 pounds. The coils force the chin upward while pressing down the collar bones and ribs, elongating the neck.

4.) Oldest Woman to Have Ever Lived

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The oldest woman to have ever lived is Jeanne Calment (1875-1998) of France. She was 122 year-old when she died. The second oldest woman was Sarah Knauss (1880-1999) of the USA. She was 199 year-old when she died.

5.) World’s Strongest Man

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Mariuz Pudzianowski of Poland was recognized as the strongest man in the world for winning the title for 5 times.

6.) Most Obese People

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Tongans are the most obese people in the world. About 47% of Tongan men are obese while 70% of Tongan women are obese or overweight.

7.) World’s Shortest Tribe

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The Pygmies of Africa are regarded as the shortest ethnic group in the world with an average height of 4 ft ii in tall.

8.) World’s Largest Feet and Hands Ever

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The man with the biggest feet of all time is Robert Wadlow, who is also the tallest man, and the man with the biggest hands.

9.) Tallest Man to Have Ever Lived

The tallest man to have ever lived is Robert Pershing Wadlow (1918 -40) of the USA. He was 274 cm or 8’11.2” tall followed by John William Rogan (1868-1905) of the USA with a height of 268 cm or 8’9.8”.

10.) Man with the Longest Beard Ever

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Hans Langseth of Norway died in 1927 and his beard was measured at 17.5 feet. Hans Langseth’s beard is now on display at the Smithsonian Institution in the United States.

11.) Shortest Living Man

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The 56 cm Nepalese Khagendra Thapa Magar who stands at 22 inches or 56 cm tall is the current shortest man according to Guinness World Records. He’s 19 year-old.

12.) Woman with the Longest Legs

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Svetlana Pankratova is recognized as the woman with the longest legs. With a towering height of 6 ft 4 in or 1.930 m, this 39 year-old woman has legs that measure 52 inches or 1.321 m.

13.) World’s Smallest Waist of a Living Person

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The woman with the smallest waist is Cathie Jung. Her waist is about the same size as a regular jar of mayonnaise. She’s been wearing a corset every day for the past 12 years, and she now wears one 24 hours a day.

14.) World’s Tallest Tribe

The Watusis of Burundi and Rwanda are regarded as the tallest tribe in the world with most men reaching heights of 7 ft tall or more.

15.) Heaviest Woman to Have Reduced Almost ¾ of His Weight

The heaviest woman who was able to reduce a total of 416 kg from her weight was Rosalie Bradford (1943-2006). From her peak weight of 544 kg, she dieted and reduced her weight to 128 kg.

16.) Man with the Most Powerful Lungs

How can you prove that you have the most powerful lungs in the world?  You have to inflate a standard meteorological balloon (1,000g) to a diameter of 2.44 m or 8 ft under time pressure in order to do so. This was achieved by Manjit Singh of the UK in 42 min at Rushley Pavilion Centre, Leicester, UK on September 16, 1998.

17.) Living Person with the Most Fingers and Toes

Pranamya Menaria, a 4 year-old from has 25 in total (12 fingers and 13 toes). This is as a result of the condition Polydactyly and Syndactyly.

Devendra Harne, a 15 year-old, also has 25 in total (12 fingers and 13 toes) as a result of the condition polydactylism.

18.) Shortest Man to Have Ever Lived

The shortest man ever on record was Gul Mohammed, who clocked in at just 57cm.

19.) Heaviest Man to Have Ever Lived and Greatest Weight Loss

The heaviest man to have ever lived is Jon Brower Minnoch of the USA. He was born in 1941 and died at the age of 42 in 1983. He was 6.1 ft tall and weighed 635 kg or 1,400 lbs. His weight loss of approximately 419 kg or 920 lb is the largest ever documented.

20.) Oldest Man in the Bible

The oldest man to have ever lived based on the Holy Scriptures was Methuselah. He lived to be 969 years old.

21.) Oldest Man to Have Ever Lived

The oldest man to ever have lived was Christian Mortensen (1882-1998) of Denmark/USA. He was 115 year and 8 month-old when he died. The second oldest man was Emiliano Mercado Del Toro (1891-2007) of Puerto Rico. He was 115 year and 5 month-old when he died.

22.) Oldest Living Man

The oldest living man is Tomoji Tanabe of Japan (1895). He is 114 year-old.

23.) People with the Highest Life Expectancy

The country with the highest life expectancy is Andorra with an average of 82.36 years followed by Japan with 82.17 years.

24.) World’s Tallest Living Man

The tallest living man is the 28 year-old Sultan Kosen. This Kurdish man stands 247 cm or 8 ft 1.2 and is recognized as the tallest living man since September 17, 2009 by Guinness World Records. He is also the current Guinness World Record holder of 'largest hands', and 'largest feet', measuring 27.5 cm and 36.5 cm respectively.

25.) World’s Furthest Eyeball Popper

Kim Goodman of the USA can pop her eyeballs to a protrusion of 12 mm or 0.47 inches beyond her eye sockets. Her eyes were measured in Istanbul, Turkey, on November 2, 2007.

26.) World’s Longest Mustache Ever

Badamsinh of India was measured on February 29, 2004 and was declared to be the man with the longest mustache in the world. It was 12.5 meters long or 4.2 meters in length.

27.) Man with the World’s Longest Ear Hair

A man in northern India name Radhakant Bajpai has been recognized by Guinness World Records as having the world’s longest ear hair. The tufts coming out of the man’s ears measured more than 5 inches when he set the record in 2003.The hair has now grown to nearly 10 inches.

28.) World's Longest Leg Hair

Wes Pemberton of Tyler holds the world record for the longest leg hair. His hair, which is about 5 inches long, exceeded the previous record of 4.88 inches long.

29.) Man with the Longest Hair

Tran Van Hay, a Vietnamese, has not cut his hair in 31 years. It is 6.2 meters long and is recognized as the longest in the world.

30.) Woman with the Longest Hair

A 40 year-old woman name Xie Qiuping of China is recognized to have the world’s longest documented hair. Her hair is 5.627 meters long or 18 ft 5.54 inches. She has not cut his hair since she’s 13.

31.) World’s Tallest Living Woman

The 28 year-old Yao Defen of China is recognized as the tallest woman in the world. It was confirmed that she is stands at 7 foot 9 inches tall and weighs about 200 kg or 440 lbs.

32.) World’s Smallest Living Woman

A 17 year-old girl name Jvoti Amge of India is considered the shortest living woman at 58 cm or 23 ½ in tall. She weighs 12 lb.

33.) Man with the Longest Reproductive Organ

Jonah Falcon has the world’s biggest reproductive organ on record at 13½in.

34.) Living Man with the Longest Beard

Currently, the longest beard belongs to Shamsher Singh of India. His beard last measured in at 6 feet long. He still has a long way to go.

35.) Woman with the Longest Nails

Lee Redmond of Salt Lake City, USA has not cut her nails since 1979. Her fingernails have reached an over-all length of 7 meters and 51.3 cm.

36.) Man with the Longest Tongue

Stephen Taylor of the UK has a tongue that measures 9.5 cm or 3.74 inches from the tip to the center of his closed top lip. It was measured in Milan, Italy on January 5, 2006.

37.) World’s Hairiest Man

Yu Zhenhuan is universally recognized as the world’s hairiest man. 96% of his body is covered by hair.

38.) World’s Tallest People

The Dutch people, on the average, are regarded as the tallest people in the world. They are the dominant ethnic group of the Netherlands.

39.) Woman with the Longest Tongue

Annika Irmler is recognized as the woman with the longest tongue. Her tongue is 7 cm or 2.76 inches long.

40.) Shortest Woman to Have Ever Lived

Pauline Musters of the Netherlands is recognized by the Guinness Book of Records as the shortest woman ever recorded. She was 58 cm or 23 inches tall. She was born in 1876 and died at the age of i9 in 1895 due to pneumonia and meningitis.

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