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Randy Gardner (born c. 1946) is an American man from San Diego, California, who once held the record for the longest amount of time a human has gone without sleep.In December 1963/January 1964, 17-year-old Gardner stayed awake for 11 days and 24 minutes (264.4 hours), breaking the previous record of 260 hours held by Tom Rounds.
Fabien Cousteau also hoped to break his grandfather's record for longest time spent underwater by a film crew, and draw the public's attention to environmental issues. [2] According to Guinness World Records, the longest time anyone has spent underwater in a fixed environment at the time was 73 days 2 hours 34 minutes. [5]
Bågenholm's lung function deteriorated at 02:20, [8] and she spent the following 35 days connected to a ventilator. [19] Bågenholm soon began to show signs of vitality, and woke up paralyzed from the neck down [18] on 30 May. [8] She feared she would spend the rest of her life on her back, and was angry with her colleagues for saving her.
Now retired at age 59, she holds two Guinness World Records — one for the longest time spent in an abdominal plank position by a woman (four hours, 30 minutes, and 11 seconds) and one for the ...
June Margaret Middleton (4 May 1926 – 30 October 2009) was an Australian polio survivor who spent more than 60 years living in an iron lung for treatment of the disease. [1] In 2006, Guinness World Records recognised her as the person who had spent the longest amount of time living in an iron lung. [ 1 ]
After being donated by a couple in 1992, the embryo of Molly was frozen and placed in a cryogenic freezer. [5] The embryo was thawed and transferred to the uterus of 28-year-old Tina Gibson in February 2020. Tina, born in April 1991, was under 2 years old when the original couple donated Molly's embryo to a clinic in the Midwest. [6]
A woman who spent 40 years behind bars for her husband’s 1984 murder has been released from prison just in time to spend Christmas with her family.. Patty Prewitt, the longest-serving female ...
Annie Shapiro (1913–2003) was a Canadian apron shop owner who was in a coma for 29 years because of a massive stroke and suddenly awakened in 1992. After the patients in the true story Awakenings, Shapiro spent the longest time in a coma-like state before waking up.