the Most Amazing Tattoo Facts!
Tattoos are a never-ending topic of conversation. Here are 8 incredible and surprising things you probably did not know.
1. Tattoos were very often used in times of war to smuggle secret messages across enemy lines.
2. The most tattooed person in the world is Tom Leppard from the Isle of Skye, Scotland. He has 99.5 per cent of his body covered with a leopard-skin design. The Guinness World Records Book states that the only parts of Tom’s body that are not tattooed are the skin between his toes and the insides of his ears.
3. Canadian Miss Krystyne Kolorful and American Julia Gnuse share the title for the world’s most tattooed woman. Both have over 95 per cent of their bodies tattooed. Julia began to ink her body in order to disguise the effects of porphyria, a disease which can leave skin permanently scarred.
4. The oldest known body tattoo was found in October 1991, when the 5,000-year-old frozen body of a Bronze Age hunter was found between Austria and Italy. This body bore several tattoos. The body which was nicknamed Ozti the iceman was found in a glacier and was so well preserved that scientists were able to make out a number of tattoos. The tattoos included a cross on the inside of the left knee, six straight lines 15cm above the kidneys and a series of parallel lines on the ankles.
5. King Harold II of England had a number of tattoos. After his death at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, his tattoos were used to identify his body.
6. American George C. Reiger Jr. boasts over 1,000 tattoos that are based on Disney characters, including all 101 Dalmatians. Because the characters are all copyrighted, Reiger has had to seek permission from Disney and now claims to be the only person in the world with such authorization. He says he received it on the condition that he not go to a tattoo parlor, appear in a tattooing magazine or make money from his tattoos.
7. Early tattoos used urine mixed with a coloring matter to make the tattoos.
8. The inventor of the first tattoo machine used the design of the doorbell in his plans.
It became extremely fashionable in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for aristocrats, including women, to be tattooed. Tattooing was very expensive and people paid large sums for their designs. When the costs were reduced, tattooing was adopted by the lower classes and the practice fell out of favor with the social elite.
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