Guinness Book of World Records is one of those things that, as a kid, you thought was going to be way more important in adult life than it actually is, like knowing how to avoid quicksand, or the Bermuda Triangle.
TakeWalker
An uncle of mine got a record for raising the biggest known tarantula in captivity back in the 80s. Shortly after that issue of the book came out, a Japanese bug collector contacted him and bought the spider for 50 000 Deutschmarks, which back then must have been about 30 000 US Dollars.
TrangleC
Guinness used to have a record for youngest person to sail around the world alone, but they dropped after they realized that was a super bad idea
lucystarlight
I have never thrown a brick at you. Just insults
RealEngineering
I'm actually the owner of Romulus (that's me sitting on the fence next to him). I'm glad that he has allowed you to go on living. It may also please you to learn that he has a younger brother named Remus who is just two inches shorter.
CBYequestrian
Oh the irony of Guinness discontinuing alcohol related records while being one of the most well known beer brands globally.
lopilkderlll
Guinness book started as something that could end often loud discussion between couple of intoxicated lads in bar over "what bird is fastest", to "I dare you to put more snakes in your mouth than that guy in book"
penzlic
The famously uncommercial BBC had a show in the 1970s/80s called 'Record Breakers'. It was basically a promotion for Guinness Book of Records - not only would they talk about the latest records, they would try to break records.
Sadly the presenter, Roy Castle, a champion tap dancer, who held the record for number of taps per minute, died from lung cancer, never having smoked. He spent most of his life in smoke-filled clubs tap-dancing and playing trumpet.
rogink
My favorite game is to guess if the sponsor is brilliant or skillshare with the first few seconds before he says it.
gabm.
Thank you for featuring my Record for eating a 12 inch pizza, Appreciate it!
KelvinMedinathezarkman
My father was in the Guinness Book of World Records for fastest time to drive through the 48 contiguous states of the US (which he, his brother, and one friend did in a little over 5 days). But his record was removed in '89 or '90 for "promoting speeding" even though the specific rules of the record stated that you needed to drive the speed limit the whole time, and the real challenge is in planning the best route. My family has been annoyed by this ever since, especially since we saw so many other more dangerous records in there. I suppose it makes sense that as you say, the more dangerous records are very unlikely to be attempted by amateurs. But I still think they should bring back the record!
ZacharyBurr
l remember as a kid they had the world's record for the youngest person to give birth in their book; Under 6 years old. Like it was an accomplishment. That record has been struck from the record book for obvious reasons.
old-fashionedcoughypot
There's also the record for World's largest Marble Cake, but instead of discontinuing it, Guiness still has it going, but refuses to aknowledge that it was broken; officially, it is held by Betty Crocker in Saudi Arabia, but it was broken by the show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on an episode of Turkmenistan's bizarre dictator, in which he also criticized Guiness' colaboration with authoritarian governments around the world, who want to break records to give a sense of legitimacy to the people they're ruling and reinforce a cult of personality. The show then unveiled a huge marble cake (which they said made "Betty Crocker's look like a f****ing Mouse Twinkie), beating the record, but Guiness refused to certify it, because of slander. The episode is on Youtube, but it's not suitable for young audiences because of strong language.
liamnixon
"Why Guinness stopped giving these world records"
Thumbnail:
- Largest balloon release
"uhm not sure"
- Heaviest dog
"wait a second"
- Longest without sleeping
*"yeah I'm starting to see a pattern here"*
truthwatcher
Those overly specific records always made me laugh as a child. I was the first person in history to stand in my kitchen wearing red trousers and shout "wueeellash"!
jonntischnabel
The insane logistics of why a beer company stopped handing out arbitrary awards
michaelmelendez
There are (at least) two records where Guinness refused to accept records - and even said so in the book - only to change its mind later:
1 - Longest note held on a musical instrument; at first, it said, "Since some trumpet players have shown the ability to hold a note and inhale at the same time, we are no longer accepting entries for this record, " but then when Kenny G said he would try to set the record, Guinness changed its mind
2 - Longest chorus line not on a stage
ThatDonChannel
This video sounds like it would definitely be half as interesting
Sinisterss
They put a bigass photo of me and my team in their “Gamers Edition” without actually giving us a record. It was likely that we won the most money in Battlefield 2 due to an overly optimistic satellite channel one-off competition where we won $40k, but that wasn’t mentioned. They just wanted to publish our nerdy faces I guess
sterhax
Whoa, the eating a whole ox is interesting because you probably want to be burning as many calories as you can in the meantime. Spending a ton of time running to work up an appetite so you can eat.
