Although they have existed for a long time, these records have not yet had any “friends” to usurp them.
Mansa Musa (1280 – 1337) was the 10th emperor of the wealthy Mali Empire. He amassed a huge fortune from gold and salt production. Mansa Musa I’s inflation-adjusted net worth estimate is over 0 billion. A huge number that exceeds the combined wealth of 3 billionaires Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Amancio Ortega combined.
Although more than 700 years have passed, in terms of wealth and influence, no one can match Mansa Musa.
Robert Pershing Wadlow (February 22, 1918 – July 15, 1940), according to the Guinness Book of Records, he was the tallest person in history, with indisputable medical evidence. He is also known as the “Alton Giant” because of his hometown of Alton, Illinois.
Wadlow reached an unprecedented height of 8 feet 11 inches (2.72 m) and weighed 440 pounds (199 kg) at the time of his death.
Jon Brower Minnoch – the heaviest man in the world was born in 1941 and so far no one has been able to break his record of 634 kg. He died in 1983 after trying to lose 361 kg.
Lucía Zárate from San Carlos, now the town of Ursulo Galvan, Veracruz, Mexico. She has a height of 54.6 cm and a weight of 2.1 kg, which is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the lightest person in the world, so far no one has been able to surpass Lucía.
Lucía died at the age of 26 when her circus train got stuck in the snow in the Sierra Nevada.
With 37 years on a stone pillar at the Magic Hill in Syria, Saint Simeon the Stylite – a 5th century Syrian monk – holds the record for the longest person sitting on a pillar in the world.
The Black Death is the name of a pandemic that occurred in Asia and Europe in the 14th century, lasting for 13 years. It was one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, it is estimated to have killed between 30 and 60% of the population of Europe and reduced the global population from about 450 million to 350 to 350 million people. 375 million people in 1400.
The Krakatoa explosion in 1883 shook the earth, sending rocks and ash flying over a radius of more than 25 km, and its sound startled those living 4,000 km away.
Its destructive power was 13 times that of the Little Boy atomic bomb that was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945. The explosion killed more than 36,000 people and caused violent tsunamis 40 meters high, devastating approximately 700 villages.
Cullinan I – is the world’s largest rough diamond ever found on Earth to date. It weighs in at 3,106.75 carats (621,350 g).
This diamond was donated to the British Royal Family, it was cut into 9 smaller stones. In which the largest diamond is Cullinan II, also known as “Africa’s brightest star”, with a mass of up to 530.4 carats (106.08 g), which is also a large artifact diamond. world to date, currently mounted on the scepter of the King of England.
Karl Witte – 13 years old, PhD: Karl Witte (born in 1800) currently holds the world record for being the youngest person to have a PhD. At the age of 9, Witte could speak five languages and was awarded a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Giessen at the age of 13.
This child prodigy wanted to be a lawyer, so he went to Italy in 1818 to fulfill his goal. But because of her love for books, Witte decided to take a different direction in her career. He became enamored with Dante’s poems and eventually, through unremitting efforts, became a recognized scholar of Dante.
Gone with the Wind, produced by Hollywood in 1939, is an indispensable film for movie lovers. Since the film was released in 1939, it has grossed more than 400 million USD.
This figure, when adjusted for the current rate of monetary inflation, shows that the film’s revenue is up to $ 3.5 billion, becoming the highest commercial grossing film in the history of world cinema so far. current time.
The 20cm long knife pierced the victim’s head.
In 1998, a stranger used a 20cm long knife to stab Michael Hill in the head. He was lucky to survive and holds the record to this day.
The incident happened when Hill was visiting his sister. Neighbor Derrick Smith suddenly stabbed him in the head with a serrated knife. It is known that Smith confused Hill with his sister’s husband due to a previous conflict between the two. Although Hill survived the attack, he still suffered a number of complications including memory loss and brain convulsions.
Evel Knievel is a pioneer of flying motorcycles. And for his efforts, he paid a heavy price, falling out of his car more than 20 times and sustaining injuries, mainly broken bones.
At the end of 1975, Evel was recorded in the Guinness book of world records when during his lifetime, he broke more than 433 bones of 35 different types of bones. He broke his skull, nose, jaw, collarbone, 2 arms, 2 wrists, sternum, ribs and back. In addition, he broke both ankles, several toes, right shin, right knee, tailbone, left hip, and fractured his pelvis about three times.
During his flying motorcycle career, Eve broke 433 bones.
During Evel’s career, the worst accident occurred on December 31, 1967, when he tried to jump over the fountains at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. The accident left him in a coma for 29 days with a crushed pelvis, femur, broken hip, wrist and both ankles.
Evel’s career ended after he was seriously injured trying to perform a jump at the Chicago theater. The accident broke both his arms and affected his brain. Eve died on November 30, 2007 of pulmonary fibrosis.
In December 2009, Dhanraj Wadile (45 years old), a shop owner in Shahadah, India suffered from stomach pain for 6 months. On arrival at the hospital, Dr. Ashish Rawandale-Patil determined that Wadile had kidney stones and recommended surgery to remove the stones. During the four-hour surgery, Dr. Patil removed 172,155 calcium oxalate and phosphate stones ranging in size from 1mm to 2.5cm. It all comes from Wadile’s left kidney.
Patil’s team took more than a month to count the stones. Once completed, the doctor sent them all to Guinness for verification. And since then, Guinness World Records has recognized Wadile as the person with the most kidney stones in the world, beating the previous record of 14,098 stones removed from a single patient.
The largest kidney stone in the world.
Another record for kidney stones is the person with the largest stone in the world. In 2009, Sandor Sarkadi from Hungary entered the Guinness Book of Records when he owned a 2.5-pound kidney stone. This kidney stone is about the size of a coconut.