The nose is a very important organ of the human body. It is thanks to him that we are able to breathe, trap and distinguish all kinds of odors. In addition, it is one of the most important components of the appearance - the nose is able to radically change the overall impression of a person’s appearance.
That is why almost all young people are extremely concerned about its size and shape, and many are very unhappy with these parameters. Someone’s own nose seems too small, and for someone - just huge; to someone he will seem too snub-nosed, and someone will complain that his nose is crooked ... But what is especially remarkable is that the man who actually has the largest nose in the world does not experience any complexes about this. The same can be said about his "colleagues in misfortune" from the distant past: no one was ashamed of his physiology, on the contrary, it was made worthy and the subject of friendly jokes and funny stories.
The biggest nose in the world: photos will not leave you indifferent
When mentioning long noses, most people, of course, recall Pinocchio (or Pinocchio). According to many, this persona possessed the most remarkable olfactory organ of all possible (that’s why he is a fabulous hero!), And therefore no one is destined to surpass him in this field. A grand mistake! In the eighteenth century that was far enough for modern man, there lived a German gentleman - a nobleman by blood - and his name was Gustav von Albach. His patrimony was the city of Bremen. He had a really very big nose, the photo of which to this day amazes people all over the world.
By the way, Gustav was never ashamed of this feature. On the contrary, he was proud of her. Due to the fact that he had the largest nose in the world, he did not need masks for masquerades, and the children sincerely loved him for the soft humor and many funny jokes and invented stories. Yes, and adult comrades admired Gustav for his gentleness and the ability to laugh at himself.
And today, the largest nose in the world is a Turkish citizen named Mehmed Ozurek. True, he is far from the legendary von Albach - his nose reaches only 88 millimeters in length. Another thing is that it is constantly growing and over time can increase by several centimeters. Now Mehmed is a little over sixty years old, and therefore he has a chance to break his own record!
The reason why Mr. Ozurek got into the Guinness Book of Records is also very interesting. It turns out that he owes the size of his nose to one extremely rare disease - rhinophyma. With it, the skin part of the olfactory organ is constantly increasing.
By the way, according to some (though still unverified) data, Mehmed may soon say goodbye to his title: the largest nose in the world, it turns out, does not belong to him, but to a Pakistani named Fayzan Agha. He overtakes Ozurek by almost four centimeters!
Germany has been dreaming of entering the Book of Records for more than a decade, and every five years it organizes a special competition in which all owners of excessively large noses can take part. Not so long ago, a man and a woman won on it, the length of the olfactory organs of which was respectively 127 and 102 millimeters.