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Far beyond belief!
How often do you cut your nails? One or two times a week? For 66 years, the 82-year-old Indian man Shridhar Chillal has not cut nails of his left hand and was confirmed by the Guinness World Records for having the world's longest nails.
However, he decided to trim his the nails and held the " Nail Cutting Ceremony" in New York on Wednesday.
Chillal has kept his left-hand nails long since 1952 because he was scolded at the age of 14 when he accidentally broke the teacher's nails.
The teacher said he would not understand how much effort she used for taking care of her nails unless he had the same ones. So he made up his mind to let his fingernails grow and has been keeping them for 66 years.
Chillal paid a great price to protect his fragile nails. He minimized the use of his left hand and even slept scrupulously. "I couldn't even move drastically. I would put my hand on the other side of my bed every half an hour, and for every time I would wake," he said. His left hand was atrophied he was unable to open his palm, at the same time, his fingers were bent.
His left-hand nails were added up to 909.6 centimeters, equal to the length of a bus. Just his thumbnail reached 197.8 centimeters long, amounting to the height of a NBA star, according to the record in 2016.
With long fingernails, Chillal has been famous for years. He recently decided to cut his nails and put them in New York's "Ripley's Believe It Or Not Museum" for collection.
Since the nails were yellow and black, and curled up at the end, He sought help from the doctor in New York. The tool to cut his nails was not an ordinary nail clipper, but a small electric saw.
When the chainsaw started to cut the nails, the nails failed to break immediately simply because they are too "strong". The doctor used an electric saw to mill back and front again and again to cut off the nails. It took about 20 minutes during the whole process.
"It’s difficult for me to be determined to cut my nails," Chillal said. "But I know that, my nails will be placed in the museum, and the museum will maintain them well. I think I made a right decision. "