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Lee Redmond grew the longest fingernails

The total length of her ten nails measured 8.65 metres in 2008 Redmond, from Salt Lake City, stopped cutting her nails in 1979 and by 2008 the combined length of all ten measured 8.65 metres, with the longest single nail around 90 centimetres. Length is measured from cuticle to tip with the hand held flat. She lost the nails in a car accident in 2009, and the record remains hers. It sits in Mondo's records & extremes collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: The total length of her ten nails measured 8.65 metres in 2008. The figure is taken from Guinness World Records, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a records & extremes fact?: Yes. It sits on the Records & Extremes shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.