Double Digits

Akshat Saxena, who was born with 34 fingers and toes, set a Guinness World Record for most digits.

The Indian boy had seven fingers on each hand and 10 toes on each foot when he was born in India in 2010, a Guinness spokeswoman said. "I was so happy to see my baby as it was our first child," his mother Amrita Saxena told reporters. "But later, when I saw his fingers, I was shocked and surprised."

Doctors recently amputated the excess appendages in a series of surgeries and now Saxena has the typical five digits per limb, the Guinness spokeswoman said. The prodigious polydactyl wasn't born with thumbs, but doctors planned to create them with pieces of the extra fingers, the Hindustan Times reported.