Who Has The Longest Nails

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The man with the longest fingernails in the world — Update!

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Shridhar Chillal, from Maharashtra, India holds the Guinness Earth Tape for having the longest fingernails on ane hand. When you lot add up the length of each fingernail on Shridhar'due south left mitt, the full length is 909.6 cm - that's near 10 meters long (or about the length of two cars)!

He stopped cut his fingernails in 1952 and then he has been growing his nails for over 60 years - that ways his nails are older than your parents...or even some of your grandparents! His thumbnail is the longest at 197.eight cm (almost two meters) and grows into a tight coil.

A detail of the long fingernails

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Having the world'south longest fingernails hasn't been easy for Chillal. He's not able to slumber very well, and has to wake up every half hour to move his hand to the other side of his bed as his nails are extremely frail. It's also been really hard for him to always have a steady chore - his nails get in the way of everything!

Now that he's almost 80 years old, his nails have become very delicate due to his age. He'd like to preserve them in a museum but he's keeping the appointment of when he's going to cut his nails a secret… for now.

UPDATE: He finally cut off his nails!

Shridhar standing in front of a display holding his fingernails

Shridhar Chillal stands in forepart of a display holding his newly cutting fingernails. (Reuters/Lucas Jackson)

After growing them for 66 years, Shridhar Chillal, now 82, finally had his nails cut off in a special ceremony in New York City. If your family is ever in New York Metropolis, you can go and see his nails on display at Ripley's Believe It or Not! museum.

Fingernail Fun Facts

Fingernails are made up of a tough protective poly peptide called keratin (say "KAIR-uh-tin"), the aforementioned protein that is found in your pilus and top layer of your skin.
Fingernails abound slowly - about 2.5 mm a month. Information technology is believed that nails can grow faster in the summertime because we get more Vitamin D from existence in the sun and we generally potable more water in the summertime, which helps salubrious nail growth.
If yous lose a fingernail it could have 3-6 months to fully abound back.
Although your fingernails grow at different speeds on each finger, this charge per unit doesn't change - then if your thumbnail grows the fastest, information technology will ever abound the fastest.
Toenails grow slower than fingernails.
The showtime of your nails is actually nether the skin all the mode about the first knuckle joint.
Information technology is however a bit of a mystery as to why humans have nails other than to perhaps help protect the tips of our fingers and toes, and to use as tools to assistance scratch an itch or pull out a sliver.