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Excluding cases of elephantitis, the biggest feet of any living person are those of Mattew McGrory from Westchester, Pennsylvania, USA.He wears UK size 28 (US size 28 1/2)shoes. McGrory is 25 years old and stands seven feet six inches tall. His shoes are especially made for him by Converse, and his socks are knitted by his mother. Maureen McGrory-Lacey.
King Charles I's fourth cervical vertebra was stolen by a surgeon during an autopsy and fashioned into a salt cellar. The novelist Sir Walter Scott used it at dinner parties for 30 years until Queen Victoria found out and demanded its return to St. George's chapel, Windsor, Berks, UK.
The world's biggest gallbladder weighed 10.4 kg and was removed from a 69-year-old woman by PRofessor Bimal C. Gosh ot tha National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, on March 15, 1989. The patient recovered and left the hospital 10 days after.
The World's heaviest known brain weighed 2.3 kg and belonged to a 30-year-old male. It was reported by Dr. Mandybur of the Department of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, in December 1992. The lightest normal or non-atrophied brain on record weighed 680g. It belonged to Daniel Lyon, who died at the age of 46 in New York, USA, in 1907. He was just over 5 feet tall and weighed 66 kilograms.
