There are many medical reasons that can cause black stools that are tarry with a foul smell, but sometimes dark stools are caused by eating certain foods or taking iron supplements. However, black stools can also be a result of bleeding, and the darker color indicates that the blood could be coming from a point in the upper gastrointestinal tract.
Gertrude Levandowski survived a 96-hour procedure at a Chicago hospital to remove a giant ovarian cyst; the longest surgery. The second longest surgery ever was 40 hours long and that was to remove 6 limbs from a 8 limed baby in India. But the most common longest surgery is spinal cord surgery it is a 14 hour surgery.
Christine the Duchess. Walton has retained the Guinness World Record for the longest fingernails, an accolade she has held since 2011. 1:30PM BST 18 Sep 2013. The 46 year-old singer who goes by the stage name The Duchess, has not cut her fingernails since 1990. The gold-painted talons hang at 11 ft on the left hand, and 10 ft on the right.