20 Surprising Facts That May Change Your Mind About Evil Dictators

11. Fidel Castro Holds Two Guinness World Records

Cuba's former socialist head of state loves the sound of his own voice - and so much so that he holds the Guinness World Record for the longest speech ever delivered at the United Nations. UN diplomats were forced to sit through four hours and 29 minutes of Fidel Castro babbling on in September 1960. However, that is a mere amuse-bouche compared to a normal Castro speech - his longest on record was given to the III Communist Party Congress in Havana in 1986... and lasted a staggering seven hours and 10 minutes! Bizarrely, Castro is also mentioned a second time in the Guinness Book of Records due to the huge volume of milk produced by his pet-project cow, Ubre Blanca ("White Udder"). The cow yielded 110litres of milk in one day, which is a record. That one is just udderly ridiculous...