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The Big Apple is home to an eye-popping 436 Guinness World Record holders, nearly 8% of all the risk-takers in the country and second only to California’s 615, according to the 70th edition of ...
Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.
The Guinness World Record researchers get many more records approved than they can fit in a single book. There are visits to history — pirate ships and shipwrecks — and pages devoted to record ...
The world's tallest man, as confirmed by the Guinness Book of Records, is Robert Pershing Wadlow, who was born in 1918 in Alton, Ill. Standing at a colossal 8'11.1″ (2.72 m) and weighing in at ...
Walter Hudson (June 5, 1944 – December 24, 1991) was an American man and the holder of the Guinness World Record for the largest waist circumference, at 119 inches (302 cm) around. [1] At his heaviest in September 1987, he weighed 1,197 pounds (543 kg), making him the heaviest person alive at the time, and the sixth heaviest person in medical ...
The Peace Candle of the World was awarded the Guinness World Record for world's largest candle, [1] [2] but the record was later given to the 127-foot (39 m) wax candle that was featured at the General Art and Industrial Exhibition of Stockholm in 1897. [3] The Scappoose Peace Candle sits on the east side of U.S. Route 30 and is visible from ...
The Guinness Publishing Limited name changed to Guinness World Records and the "Guinness Book of World Records" was renamed "Guinness World Records" in 1999, reflecting its evolved business. The ...
Craig Shergold (24 June 1979 – 21 April 2020) was a British cancer patient who received an estimated 350 million greeting cards, earning him a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. Variations of the plea for greeting cards on his behalf in 1989 are still being distributed through the Internet, making the plea one of the most persistent ...