Indian man whose fingernails reached 77 INCHES long after growing them for 66 years finally gets them cut… and the clippings will be displayed in a museum

An Indian man with the longest fingernails ever recorded has finally chopped them off - after 66 years - and now they will be displayed in a museum. 

Shridhar Chillal's fingernails were nearly the same length as a bus when he finally got them trimmed after more than six decades of cultivating his huge talons.

The 82-year-old from Pune, India, had been growing his lengthy nails since he was 16 years old and holds the Guinness World Record for the longest fingernails on one hand.

Chillal was first inspired to grow out the nails on his left hand in 1952 after a teacher beat him for accidentally breaking one of his very long nails. From that day on, he vowed never to cut his own talons.

But he finally caved during a 'nail clipping ceremony' in New York earlier this week and the yellowing cuttings will now be displayed in a museum.

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