On a whim back in 1979, Lee Redmond decided to stop filing her nails. She intended to cut them off once they started twisting, but her plans changed.

In 2002 she entered the Guinness World Records book for the world's longest fingernails on a female pair of hands. On february 11th, 2009 Lee Redmond shocked the world with the loss of her fingernails in a car crash.

But on September 2, 2009 Guinness World Records reported some great news about mrs.

Redmond (who is doing fine and found 'there is more to life than nails'!!), for they announced to honour Lee Redmond's 'fingernail life-work' in the 2010 'The Book of the Decade'

- featured with a striking photograph of Lee pictured alongside fellow American Melvin Booth, the male owner of the longest finger nails (9.05-m-long/29ft 8in), which was taken just a few months prior to her accident.

World’s record for t-shirts worn at the same time. 227 by Jef Van Dijck of Belgium.

Garry Turner, of Caistor, Lincolnshire, England, stretched the skin of his stomach to a distended length of 15.8 cm (6.25 in) on the set of Guinness World Records: Primetime in Los Angeles, California, USA, on October 29, 1999.

Coke & Mentos Guiness world record With 1,911 explosions in Riga, Latvia.

The heaviest Jicama weighed 21 kg (46 lb 4.8 oz) and was grown by Leo Sutisna (Indonesia) in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, and weighed on 25 January 2008.

35,310 Lego Star Wars Clone Troopers in the UK.

Helmut Wirz from Germany became the oldest person to bungee jump in August 2008.

He was a ripe 83 years old when he was dropped in Duisburg, Germany, on the 9th of August 2008.

A Maine man and his collection of 1,094 clocks.

Wimm Hoff from Netherlands spent 1 hour 42 minutes and 22 seconds covered in snow.

The largest chalk pavement art measured 90,000 square feet, and was created by 5,678 children from schools in Alameda, California, USA, for the

Kids' Chalk Art Project between May 27 - June 7, 2008.