world records

If you are of the belief that size matters, boy do I have the Illinois town for you. It's considered one of the weirdest small towns in America as it holds many world records for giant things.

I've caught some big fish in Missouri in my lifetime, but never anything like this. A world record 164 pound fish was just landed at the Lake of the Ozarks and it's not likely to be topped anytime soon.

I may have a phobia that I don't know about because of how much this makes me want to squirm. I've learned that Missouri possesses two very gruesome world records and it involves nails and teeth. I may need to talk to a therapist after this.

When your spouse is a meteorologist, you think you've heard it all when it comes to weather-related history. That's what I thought, but today I learned there was one Missouri weather fact I was unaware of. Did you know the world record for rainfall is held by a tiny Missouri place that was slammed with a foot in just an hour?

This will be a story he can pass down through his family for generations. It is true that a man just floated the Missouri River and in the process also happened to set a world record that's not likely to be broken.

Just days after a 104-year-old Chicago woman broke the world record for being the oldest person to tandem skydive out of an airplane, news broke that she has passed away.

How many of these record sites have you visited?

There's tall and then there's TALL. This is that 2nd one. It's the tallest man in recorded medical history and I've learned he has connections to both Missouri and Illinois.

I think there's some compensating going on here, but in this case that's not a bad thing. There is a teeny tiny Illinois town that is known for having some of the world's largest things.

According to the saying, "you learn something new every day." I can't personally vouch for having learned something new each day, but today, for me, it's true. I didn't know before, but there are Guinness World Records that involve Thanksgiving. About the only record I see myself setting would be "fastest asleep on the couch post-dessert."