"Tooth Facts - Don't Try Pulling Trains With Your Teeth..."

A Malaysian claimed a world record yesterday by pulling six railway passenger coaches along a track with his teeth. Organizers of the event in Kuala Lumpur will apply for V. Rathakrishnan's feat to be entered in the Guinness Book of World Records, the national news agency Bernama reported.

Rathakrishnan, 37, pulled the coaches, weighing 260.8 tonnes, for a distance of 4.2m.

The book currently lists Belgium's Walter Arfeuille as the record holder for "greatest weight pulled with teeth." He pulled eight railway passenger coaches weighing 223.8 tonnes for a distance of 3.2m in Belgium in 1996.

The hardest substance in the body is tooth enamel. It is rock hard.

You wouldn't think a snail had teeth, but in a mouth no larger than the head of a pin, the snail's mouth contains an astonishing 25,000 teeth, give or take a few thousand.

Dogs have 42 teeth.

Baby first teeth usually come in on the top front. They start coming in when they are about 6 or 7 months old.

Humans, that's us, have only two sets of teeth while the elephant has six sets of teeth. Each set is made up of four teeth two on the top jaw and two on the bottom. These teeth move forward as they wear out and are replaced by the next set. When the last set has gone elephants can die from difficulty eating enough food.

Cats have 32 teeth.

The first dentists may have come from Egypt. His name was Hesy-Re c.2650 BC over 4000 years ago. Some mummies have teeth filled with a kind of resin and malachite. In other mummies, gold wire has been used to bind loose teeth. No known methods exist as to how they practiced - mostly it was by applying magic and spells.

Armadillos have no tooth enamel.

Sharks have at least 40 sets of razor sharp teeth.

Pigs have 44 teeth.

Children usually have 20 teeth by age 2.

Adult humans have 32 teeth.

Baby teeth are called milk teeth.