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Longest nipple hair

The longest nipple hair is 15.16 cm (5.97 in), achieved by Timothy McCubbin (Australia), in Brisbane, Australia, on 29 November 2010. The longest nipple hair of Timothy McCubbin was measured on the car park in front of Triple M Studio. Triple M organised for the event to be filmed and photographed. Timothy always had a longer hair on his right nipple and it took no longer than three years to let it grow this length.

Longest road train

The record for the longest road train is 1,474.3 m (4,836 ft 11 in) where a single Mack Titan prime mover, driven by John Atkinson (Australia), towed 113 trailers for a distance of approximately 150 m (490 ft) in an event sponsored by Hogs Breath Café, in Clifton, Queensland, Australia on 18 February 2006. This length is the equivalent of 156 London buses!

Longest running cartoon strip by a single artist

Since January 1940, Jim Russell (b. 26 March 1909, d. 15 Aug 2001) of Kirrawee, New South Wales, Australia, drew the comic strip The Potts, published in Smiths Weekly until 1950 and then daily in the Melbourne Herald until his death. Thus, it ran for over 61 years. The Potts were originally created by Stan Cross, who worked for Smiths from 1920 until 1939. Russell was his assistant, but was nominated to take over drawing all his features. When Smiths closed down, Rupert Murdoch bought Continue reading →