Sir Hugh Beaver, manager of the Guinness Brewery, went hunting with some friends on November 10 1951 and they got into a disagreement about the fastest game bird in Europe and could not find the answer anywhere.The lack of information for settling bar bets gave Sir Hugh Beaver an idea and the Guinness Book of Records was conceived with the first issue, a 198 page promotion book, being published on August 27, 1955.

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Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world. The book itself holds a world record, as the best-selling copyrighted book series of all time. It is also one of the most frequently stolen books from public libraries in the United States.

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Guinness World Records is the world's best-selling copyrighted book, selling 3.5 million copies a year

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Popular records

The largest breast belongs to Annie Hawkins-Turner (USA) who has an under breast measurement of 109.22 cm (43 in) .

The tallest man living is Sultan Kösen who measured 251 cm in Ankara, Turkey, on 08 February 2011.

The hairiest teenager is Supatra "Nat" Sasuphan (Thailand) according to the

Ferriman Gallwey method of evaluation of Hirsutism.

The tallest dog living is 'Giant George' a Great Dane, who measured 1.092 m (43 in) tall on

15 February 2010 and is owned by David Nasser of Tucson, Arizona, USA. 

The fastest toilet is the "Bog Standard", a motorcycle and sidecar hidden under a

bathroom set consisting of bathtub, sink, and laundry bin, which can travel to a speed of 68

kmh

The heaviest object sword-swallowed is a demolition hammer weighing 38kg. Thomas Blackthorne (UK) swallowed the 24mm thick drill bit, then held the full weight of the hammer and bit for over 3 seconds, on the set of “Guinness World Records”. The hammer was switched on.

The fastest time to enter a zipped suitcase is 5.43 seconds achieved by Leslie Tipton (USA) on 14 September 2009 in New York, USA on the LIVE! with Regis & Kelly show.

Ilker Yilmaz (Turkey) squirted milk from his eye a distance of 279.5 cm (9 ft 2 in) at the Armada Hotel, Istanbul, Turkey on 1 September 2004.

The most bowls broken with one finger in one minute is 102 and was achieved by Fan Weipeng (China) on the set of Lo Show Dei Record, in Milan, Italy, on 11 April 2009.

The longest fingernails on a pair of male hands belonged to Melvin Boothe (USA) whose nails had a combined length of 9.85 m , when measured in Troy, Michigan, USA on 30 May 2009. Unfortunately, Melvin passed away in December 2009. 

The longest fingernails belonged to Lee Redmond (USA), who started to grow them in 1979 and carefully manicured them to reach a total length of 8.65 m as measured on the set of Lo show dei record in Madrid, Spain. Lee lost her nails in an automobile accident in early 2009.

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