Mormon World Records?

World Records come in all shapes and forms. While looking for some of the best we stumbled across a site that featured MORMON WORLD RECORDS! Not just plain old world records but MORMON ones! In the honor of such a great collection of facts (MORMON facts in fact) today's fact post is dedicated to the amazing world records of our Mormon friends. The following is quoted from this site. We'd like to thank them! Enjoy!

"Largest Fish

Largest Fish. 80-lb. Line. (1988 World Record) In 1988, Nate J. Anderson, a young 13-year-old in the Soldotna Ward, Soldotna Alaska Stake, caught the largest King salmon ever hauled in with 80-lb. test fishing line. The fish weighed in at 71 lb. 4 oz.

Oldest Man to Row Atlantic

(2001 World Record) In October 2000, Richard Jones, a high priest in Sandy, Utah, pushed off from the Canary Islands off the west coast of Africa and rowed across the Atlantic Ocean. His 133 day trip had some close calls with a freighter at night and the U.S. Navy, but otherwise he arrived safely at the Bahamas in February 2001. The trip was record breaking. He became the oldest person ever to row an ocean. He was the first American to row the Atlantic. And, he was the first person ever to row an ocean towards his native country. The total distance rowed by Brother Jones was 4,576 miles.

Greatest Size Difference

Professional basketball player, Shawn Bradley, and his wife Annette, may have the largest difference in height than any other married couple in the church. Between Shawn's 7- foot-6 height and Annette's 5-foot-4, there is a size difference of 26 in.
Highest Flier (1990 World Record) Explorer John Goddard, La Canada, Calif., took the controls of an F-106 and flew it to an altitude of 63,000 ft. (almost 12 miles high), making him the only civilian to pilot an aircraft to that altitude.

Quintuplets

Several couples in the Church have had multiple births, including quadruplets and quintuplets. On Sept. 1, 2002, Nichole and Nathan Faylor of the Plum Creek Ward, Austin Texas Oak Hills Stake, gave birth to quintuplets their five babies that weighed from 2 lb. 12 oz. to 4 lb. 5 oz., and were named Joshua, Jonathan, Joseph, Nataleigh, and Cathryn. "