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Guiness

1. Longest neck - The maximum known extension of a human neck is 40 cm (15.75 in) and was created by the successive fitting of copper coils, as practiced by the women of the Padaung or Kareni tribe of Myanmar (Burma) as a sign of beauty. Their necks eventually become so long and weak that they cannot support their heads without the coils. In some tribes the coils are removed to punish women who have committed adultery.
2. Oldest living woman - Kamato Hongo, born September 16, 1887, on Tokunoshima Island, Kagoshima, Japan, is the world's oldest living woman (and person). She took the title aged 114 years 183 days on the death of Maude Farris-Luse (b. January 21, 1887), who died on March 18, 2002. She celebrated her 116th birthday!
3. Lightest Triplets - Together weighing 1,879 g (66.28 oz), the Vincent triplets, namely Joel Kent, Ariel Ann, and Bethel Joy, became the lightest born triplets when they were born by cesarean section at Chicago Osteopathic Hospi...

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