20. Just how long were the longest fingernails in the world?
This lady has a nail-biting story! Her name is Lee Redmond from Salt Lake, Utah had the longest fingernails in both hands in the world. Believe it or not, her nails were over 28 feet in total, and her story is a fascinating one. She started growing them in early 1979, thinking it was interesting to try. Furthermore, she planned to cut them off around 2006. However, Lee Redmond got so used to them that she kept them going way after her deadline. It blew everyone’s minds to learn that her crazy long nails were not a problem for her to live an everyday life.
Lee Redmond could cook, ride bikes, and even take care of her bed-ridden husband as if she didn’t have 28 feet long nails in both hands. In 2008, she was recognized by Guinness as the person with the longest recorded fingernails ever known to man, which she still holds today. Sadly, in 2009 Lee Redmond had a car accident which meant having her nails destroyed. Today, Redmond says that even if she can do even more things without having long nails, she’s in the works of re-growing them, although not as long as she used to.