Guinness World Information (GWR) is celebrating its seventieth anniversary by highlighting unclaimed titles you would possibly fancy going for.
The bookkeeper of bizarre and wacky achievements – the primary quantity of which was printed on 27 August 1955 – is inviting folks to strive their hand at such extraordinary feats as:
• Probably the most whoopee cushions sat on in a single minute;
• The quickest time to blow a stamp 10 metres;
• The furthest distance bottle flip;
• Probably the most high-fives in 30 seconds;
• The quickest 400-metre sack race;
• And the quickest time to ascend the peak of Everest by bicycle.
GWR’s editor-in-chief Craig Glenday stated the data are “there for the taking”, and appears ahead to celebrating “the following era of record-breakers”.
However it’s not simply quirky milestones that GWR considerations itself with.
It lately celebrated the 116th birthday of the world’s oldest particular person, and oldest Briton ever, Ethel Caterham, whereas Taylor Swift’s current album announcement additionally secured a document.
She introduced The Life Of A Showgirl on the podcast of her fiance Travis Kelce and his brother Jason, serving to it pull probably the most concurrent views ever for a podcast on YouTube with 1.3 million.
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How did GWR start?
“What is the quickest recreation fowl in Europe?”
A query which triggered a debate at a Nineteen Fifties taking pictures celebration in County Wexford, Eire, attended by the then managing director of Guinness brewery Sir Hugh Beaver.
When their dialogue and search via reference books failed to come back to a solution, the concept for a document e book was born. Sir Hugh thought it would be a good way of settling pub arguments and recruited researchers from Fleet Road to compile a e book of details and figures.
Many years value of editions and 155 million copies later, we have realized of data for every thing from the most important assortment of Spice Ladies memorabilia (Elizabeth West, UK, with greater than 5,000 items) to the longest feminine tongue (Chanel Tapper, US, 9.75cm).
Sky Information is within the GWR for probably the most concurrent reside internet streams for an occasion: 138, throughout protection of the 2015 common election.
(c) Sky Information 2025: Guinness World Records turns 70 – and highlights some unclaimed records
