Guinness World Records (21/11/2024) Day: A Historic Meeting of the Tallest and Shortest Women

Meeting for afternoon tea are the tallest and smallest women in the world.

Guinness World Records Day was celebrated in London with an afternoon tea meeting between the tallest and smallest women in the world.

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Upon meeting at the Savoy Hotel, Rumeysa Gelgi, who is 215.16 centimeters (7 feet 0.7 inches) tall, and Jyoti Amge, who is just 62.8 centimeters (2 feet 0.7 inches),  According to a Guinness World Records (GWR) statement on Wednesday, the two women’s height differences might reach an astounding 152.36 cm tall.

In 2021, Gelgi, a Turkish web designer, was officially recognized as the tallest woman alive.

Weaver syndrome is a very uncommon illness that accounts for her height. A Guinness World Records Day report states that she was just the 27th individual in the world to be diagnosed with the illness.

The 27-year-old Gelgi also holds the records for the longest back of a living female at 59.90 centimeters (23.58 inches), greatest hands on a woman at 24.93 centimeters (9.81 inches), and longest ears on a female at an average of 9.58 centimeters (3.77 inches). We do share certain similarities. “We both enjoy jewelry, self-care, makeup, and nail art,” Gelgi stated.

Amge, a media personality and actress who was born in India suffers from achondroplasia, a bone growth disease that affects the arms and legs. Although she is petite in stature, she is quite active on social media and has played Ma Petite on the American television series “American Horror Story: Freak Show.” She is now officially the shortest actress in history, according to Guinness World Records.

During their meeting in London, Craig Glenday, editor-in-chief of Guinness World Records, stated that the records are about “celebrating differences. “Amge and Gelgi have both been recognized as Guinness World Records ICONS, a brand-new classification created for the 2025 edition of the book.

A man makes the tiniest playing cards in the world.

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By making the tiniest deck of playing cards ever, a London guy set a Guinness World Record. Rob Hallifax, who owns a company that manufactures playing cards, had to use 3D printing technology to ensure that every card in the pack was precisely the same size, setting a world record of 5 mm by 3.6 mm. 

After that, he started working on his next record challenge.

The height of 2.87 meters (9 feet 4.99 inches) set by Ramkumar Sarangapani of India in 2020 was the record to surpass. It’s a big thing that Rob’s enormous King of Hearts card has finally arrived at the Guinness World Records office in London.3 m x 2.02 m (9 ft 10 in x 6 ft 7 in) in size.

A Canadian grandma completes more than 1,500 push-ups in one hour, setting a second-world record.

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Many consider their grandparents to be their heroes. However, the grandkids of Canadian Donna Jean Wilde can now formally claim that their grandmother is a superhero. The 59-year-old won the prize for most push-ups in an hour (female) last week after doing 1,575 push-ups in 60 minutes, shattering her second world record title. 

She won in March and now she’s winning again. After performing 500 push-ups daily to prepare for her planking, Donna Jean claims that her rigorous training for her first record title helped her win her second.

She got the hour off to a great start, finishing 620 push-ups in the first 20 minutes. When she had to perform 500 push-ups daily for her planking preparation, she fell in love with the exercise and spent the following fifteen minutes alternating between 20 and five push-ups per rep. She worked out for hours at her family’s beautiful home in Beazer. 

The push-ups had to be done according to a set standard, which called for full arm extension throughout the push-up and a 90-degree elbow flexion at the bottom. ultimately breaking the previous record and finishing until the allotted time had passed with an average of roughly 10 pushups every rep.

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