They say you can pick your friends, and your
nose... but not your family. Or something like that. Every family has its quirky cousin, but there
are some families out there that make yours look positively normal. I’m talking about unique households that
push the envelope to the extreme. You won’t find 2.5 kids and a dog at home,
nope, these families are one in a million. Ready to take a look? Let’s get it on! WORLD’S LARGEST FAMILY! Ziona Chana is part of the world’s biggest
immediate family. He has a whopping 39 wives, 94 children and
33 grandchildren, all of which live with him in his 100 room, 4 story-mansion in the east
of India. Ziona has his own double bed while his wives
live in multi person dormitories and take turns to visit Ziona in his bedroom. You’d think it would get confusing trying
to figure out when he needs to see each of his wives, but there’s actually a well organised
rotation system that everyone adheres to. When Ziona’s wives aren’t with him, they’re
busy performing house chores for the enormous family that can easily consume 30 chickens
and over 200 pounds of rice in a single meal. The Indian man certainly does live like a
king, his hardest job would be remembering everyone’s name! THE NINE DWARFS! Every son looks at his dad and fully expects
to eventually grow taller over time. In this Indian family, everyone expects to
be as short as each other! 9 out of the 11 members of the Chauhan family
from Hyderabad suffer from achondroplasia, a form of short-limbed dwarfism. The family is often teased by the local community
for their lacklustre height and have subsequently found great difficulty getting employment. Ram Raj works as a marriage welcomer but has
said that potential employers are often put off by his startling appearance. When work is hard to come by, he works in
his family’s grocery store. Some have suggested that the family members
sit on each other’s shoulders and wear a trench coat when they attend job interviews
but they can never agree on who gets to sit at the top! Ram’s 27-year-old daughter hopes to be an
accountant but has also struggled to find work on account of her short stature. Despite the continual abuse and ridicule,
Ram is upbeat, believing that his family are a gift from God and at least he’s making
people laugh! SIX FINGER DA SILVA’S! Usually genetic deformities aren’t something
that people celebrate. Apart from the issues performing everyday
tasks, people with physical abnormalities can be teased, ridiculed and disadvantaged
in life. This definitely isn't the case for the Da
Silva family from Brazil. 14 out of the 23 people in the family have
6 toes on each foot and 6 fingers on each hand. Usually when people are born with extra body
parts, they aren’t functional and need to be amputated. Luckily for the Da Silva’s, their extra
digits work just fine! Not only are these extra appendages completely
functional, they apparently give the family members unique advantages. Older brother Joao uses his extra fingers
to give him the upper hand as a goalkeeper while sister Maria uses her unique condition
to play piano. She’s able to hit more keys at the same
time, giving her the potential to play songs that no one else in the entire world would
be able to play. It’s official, the Da Silva’s are definitely
a handy family. WALKING ON ALL FOURS! This odd Turkish family walks on all fours
and has fascinated scientists since their discovery in 2005. The Ulas family includes 5 siblings who cannot
stand up straight for extended periods of time. Initially scientists thought that they had
evolved in a way similar to primates but it was later found that they don’t walk on
their knuckles like our furry counterparts. The Ulas family walk on their open palms in
a movement called a bear crawl due to hereditary condition resulting in a complicated sense
of balance. The condition also comes with a degree of
cognitive disability and the siblings suffer from a range of different mental impairments. Believed to be the only family in the world
affected by this condition, a foundation has been set up to study, support and look after
the family and identify any other possible sufferers. WORLD'S STRONGEST FAMILY! You really wouldn’t want to get on the bad
side of this buff family. The family consists of parents, Nick and Callie
as well as their children, 5-year-old Jessica and 11-year-old Dylan. Together they train for up to 240 hours each
week and need an insane amount of food to maintain their huge frames, spending 500 to
1000 dollars on mostly organic foods every single week. Nick is known for competing in the world’s
strongest man competition and his family is following suit with 5-year-old Jessica already
able to do one handed push-ups and lift 100 pound weights! This is despite experts only recommending
someone her age to lift a single pound weight. 11-year-old Dylan can deadlift 130 pounds
and says that he can’t get through the day without exercising and that it’s like his
morning coffee. You know what they say, the family that trains
together, stays together! THE RUSSELL RAPUNZEL’S! Terelynn Russel is known for having some of
the longest hair in the world. At over 6 feet, she easily wins first place
at the annual longest ponytail competitions which she attends regularly. Her three daughters are also following her
lead with all of them growing out their hair which dangles far below their waists. The family’s hobby doesn’t come cheap
either, long hair is much more vulnerable to breaking than short hair so hundreds of
dollars monthly are spent on shampoos and conditioners to ensure that their luscious
locks are always healthy. It’s important to know that most human hair
stops growing at a certain length, the Russel family clearly possesses a genetic mutation
that ignores this limitation, growing almost indefinitely! The family has to follow specific rules to
ensure their hair isn’t putting them in danger, mostly keeping it tied up when in
the kitchen where it could easily be caught in a food preparation device or brush up against
a hot stove. While there are a few disadvantages to having
such long hair, the Russel family is well equipped just in case they’re ever imprisoned
in a tall tower! RED AND WHITE! Unlike the other families, the red and white
family of southern India weren’t born into uniqueness, they instead made a deliberate
decision to try and be unusual. At 18, Sevenraj vowed to only wear red and
white until the day he died. 40 years on, Sevenraj has stuck to his commitment
and has incorporated the colours into other parts of his life, as well as owning only
red and white furniture and driving a red and white car. The entire house follows the colour scheme,
everything from the wallpaper to the toilet. His wife and kids have also adopted the colour
scheme. Sevenraj is proud of his decision to stick
with the red and white colour scheme and it doesn’t seem like he’ll drop this unusual
habit any time soon. Let’s just hope no-one in the family is
colour-blind! WIDE TONGUE SCHLENKER’S! It’s adorable when all the members of a
family inherit a strong physical trait. It’s a little less cute when it looks like
the entire family got stung in the mouth by a bee. Byron Schlenker now holds the world record
for the widest tongue at 3.37 inches which is half an inch wider than the iPhone 12! We still haven’t figured out how he keeps
it in his mouth or eats food without choking, he manages to talk completely normally. As it turns out, this trait runs in the family
with Byron’s daughter having a 2.89-inch-wide tongue, the widest out of any woman alive. Apart from being amazing at licking postage
stamps, there’s not a whole lot of advantages to this peculiar trait. Byron does however get recognized regularly
and is asked for photos with his wide tongue! BIG BEAR FAMILY! If you thought the Tiger King was obsessed
with dangerous animals, just wait till you meet the Kowalczik’s from Otisville in New
York. Husband and wife Jim and Susan Kowalczik own
11 full sized bears on their 100-acre property named The Orphaned Wildlife Center. Their grizzly roommates include Kodiak, Syrian
and Black bears. The couple raised these bears from when they
were abandoned cubs so they aren’t aggressive and can easily be cuddled up to. Eating a staggering 30 pounds of food each
day, all 11 bears absolutely dwarf Jim and Susan with their size. They’ve been known to knock Jim and Susan
clear off their feet, in a playful way of course, but these gentle giants wouldn’t
hurt their rescuers in a million years! That would be unbearable. TALLEST MARRIED COUPLE! This couple from Beijing holds the record
for the world’s tallest married couple with a combined height of 13 feet and 10 inches. While most people wish to be taller, this
couple has some unique challenges that come with their towering height. They’re unable to walk through most doorways
without bending down or hitting their head, and there’s even been times where a gust
of wind has threatened to use them as sails! Sun Ming carries the bulk of the height in
the marriage, measuring a whopping 7 feet and 9 inches while his wife Xu Yan, stands
at a more modest 6 feet and 2 inches. Sun uses his height to play basketball where
he can dunk without even leaving the floor. Xu expressed that she hoped to marry someone
taller than her but never expected to find someone a foot and a half above her. Love is blind, but when you’re that tall,
there’s no changing of losing each other in a crowd.
