Fun Facts :D
Fun Facts 1. The oldest person ever to have lived (whose age could be authenticated), a French woman named Jeanne Louise Calment, was 122 years old when she died in 1997. ( Guinness world record ) 2. The tallest living man is 37-year-old Sultan Kosen, from Turkey, who is 8 feet, 2.8 inches, who set the record in 2009. His growth is also due to a pituitary issue. ( Guinness world record ) 3. The tallest man ever recorded was American giant Robert Wadlow (1918–1940), who stood 8 feet 11 inches. Wadlow’s size was the result of abnormally enlarged pituitary gland. ( Guinness world record ) 4. The original name for the search engine Google was Backrub. It was renamed Google after the googol, which is the number one followed by 100 zeros. ( About google ) 5. The oldest-known living land animal is a tortoise named Jonathan, who is 187 years old. He was born in 1832 and has lived on the island of St. Helena in the Atlantic Ocean since 1882. ( Guinness world record ) 6. The most common wild