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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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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Thousands of Volunteers Visualized Naked in Munich

American installation artist, Spencer Tunick invited and participated 1700 volunteers to his photo shoot and for recreated scenes from Richard Wagner's opera Der Ring des Nibelungen. All of the volunteers were painted either in red or gold cosmetic body makeup that is safe and easily removed with soap and water.

Tunick is famous for his nude site-specific artworks which often use vast numbers of people and never fail to catch the media's attention. This is his second work in Germany. Have a look on few of his photos on Munich.

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The World's first man to give a Child Birth

Thomas Beatie, an American female to male transsexual is known as the world's first man to give a child birth. According to Guinness Records, he is the first person to give birth fully documented as male and legally married to a woman. He was able to have a child after taking female hormones to reverse the effects of his female-to-male sex change treatment. And he has further told that his wish is to live his life as a normal father.

He had been living as a man for five years and had legally changed his name and gender before deciding to attempt to conceive with his male partner, from whom he is now separated.

Thomas and his wife Nancy now have three beautiful children born of Thomas, Susan Juliette Beatie (6-29-08), Austin Alexander Beatie (6-9-09), and Jensen James Beatie (7-25-10).

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