The World's Oldest Person - Dina Manfredini

Dina Manfredini from Des Moines, Iowa, USA was officially making known as the world oldest living person according to the world’s Guinness records 2012. She was in 115 year old when she places this world record.

Manfredini was born in Italy on April 4th, 1897 who was primarily a mother and homemaker, but had taken a job later time cleaning houses up until the age of 90. She came to the U.S. with her husband, Riccardo in 1920 and they raised four children, before Riccardo died in 1965.

"I'm old, old lady, but I work. Work hard. I like work," she said. Dina lived independently until she was 110 years old, when she then reposition to a nursing home in Johnston, Iowa.

Members of the world’s record committee confirmed that Dina Manfredini is the only verified Italian person to have arrived at the age of 115 in familiar history.

The previous Guinness World Record carried by Besse Cooper of Georgia but she passed away at the age of 116. Dina Manfredini was the second oldest person on record, so she will now obtain the title.

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The Longest Interval between birth of Twins - 87 Days Apart

Irish twins Amy and Katie have been called as "Miracles" because they are set for the Guinness Book of Records after they were incredibly born 87 days apart. The twin girls are now to set the Guinness World Record for the "longest interval between the birth of twins".

Maria Jones-Elliott, 34, gave birth to her twin daughter Amy three months early, June 1, 2012 who weighed just 1lb 3oz but her next twin daughter Katie who weighed 5lb 10oz was not born until August 27, 2012 almost three months later. (Another 87 days)

Doctors have told Ms Jones-Elliot and her husband, Chris, they have achieved the medical equivalent of winning the lottery after both girls survived.

Maria, who has two other children, told how she was ragged between joy and worry after Amy’s dangerously early arrival as Katie stayed in her womb, clinging to survival.

“I call the girls our little miracles,” she said. “As I held Amy for the first time I stroked my bump and prayed to God. I just wanted my girls to be together and safe and well. “Usually you experience nothing but joy at the birth of a new baby, but it was so achingly bitter-sweet as both of their lives hung in the balance.

Further she said “Amy was fighting for life in an incubator and Katie was struggling to survive in my womb. It was the hardest three months of our lives. But Chris kept saying, ‘Where there’s life there’s hope.”

The previous Guinness world record for longest interval between birth of twins was set by Peggy Lynn of Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, Lynn gave birth to her twin girl and boy, Hanna and Eric, 84 days apart between the years of 1995 and 1996.

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Female with the Longest Fingernails - Chris “The Dutchess” Walton

The 45 year old rock singer from Las Vegas namely as Chris “The Dutchess” Walton holds the 2012 Guinness World Records for having 19 feet, 9 inches long of nails on both hands. Long measure 10 feet 2 inches on her left hand and 9 feet 7 inches on her right hand. She stopped cutting her nails 19 years ago and carefully manicured them to reach a total length.

There’s no doubt that we all have a same question to ask from her, how she can do her day to day work with these long fingernails. Chris gave a nice reply for this question when in an interview with New York Daily news. She said “It’s kind of like a body part I was born with and now I don’t know what I would do without them”.

 

Also she claims that that the nails do not create an inconvenience and that she can cook, clean, drive and wash with ease with 5 children at home. She even text using her knuckles and even play the piano and use the computer with the nails. The only problem she has encountered is that she has to adjust her clothing to get her nails. Further she said that she didn't grow her nails deliberately to set a Guinness record because she liked the way nails looked the day she stopped cutting her nails and let they just kept growing. She lost a nail once, when fixing her car engine on the freeway, and otherwise has no trouble leading a normal life.

 

The previous female record holder for the longest nails was Lee Redmond of Salt Lake City. Her nails measured a combined total 28 feet in 2008 but she lost her nails in a car crash in 2009.

Melvin Booth, an American consider as a male owner of the world's longest fingernails with 29 feet, 8 inches long fingernails. He passed away in 2009.

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World's Longest Domestic Cat - Stewie

A cat named as Stewie, is more incredible than other cats in the world. Stewie is a just five year old cat from Nevada, United States and it is the current world record holder for the world’s longest domestic cat. The average cat spans 18 inches normally but Stewie is length more than 30.5 inches from average.

Five year old Maine Coon Stewie has record 48.5 inches from the tip of his nose to the tip of his tail bone. That is a little more than 4 feet long which was amazing.

The previous record holder was another Maine Coon that measured 48 inches who was half an inch shorter. It was owned by Frieda Ireland of Chicago.

The owners of Stewie, Robin Hendrickson and Erik Brandsness decided to present five year old Stewie to the record after hearing and amazing countless people’s remark on his length.

Stewie is one of the Maine Coon variety and Maine Coons are known as 'the gentle giants' of the cat world.

Below is a video which is taken from the Guinness World Records  

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