Here's a fun trivia question: If you were to write out all of the numbers by their names -- that is, 1 would be "one" and 2 would be "two," and so on -- what number would you reach before you ended up writing the letter "a"? Assuming you don't use the word "and" to spell out a three-digit number (it should be "one hundred one," not "one hundred and one"), the answer is 1,000 -- "one thousand."

And no one knows that better than an Australian man named Les Stewart. 

Well, kind of. He used the word "and" when he didn't need to, and it probably took years off his life.

That's because Stewart is the Guinness World Record holder for a feat few of us would ever try: "fastest time to type one to one million." The word "fastest" there is misleading because it was anything but fast. Stewart, reported the BBC, needed something to do "after injuries sustained in a house fire left him unable to work." So he decided to try to break a world record. He contacted the Guinness World Record book to see what options were out there and, according to a profile in the Courier Mail (a Brisbane/Queensland publication), he "was told that in order to see his name printed in the Guinness Book of Records, he would have to do something extraordinary ... and bizarre." So in early 1982, he got started on an extraordinary and bizarre hobby: he began typing out each of the first one million numbers, by name, one number at a time -- and on a manual typewriter, as seen below.