In Guinness World Records, you'll find the shortest, tallest and fastest. Behind the spectacle is an auditing system so strict it has crushed many more record attempts than it has certified.

A teenager who has twice been crowned world champion of freestyle football is now featuring in a new book of Guinness World Records. Isabel Wilkins, from Bradford-on-Avon in Wiltshire, stars in the ...

Monsieur Mangetout — that's Mr. Eats Everything in French — is famous for eating a plane, earning the Guinness World Record for world's strangest diet. His record is one of tens of thousands on the ...

Does anyone else remember reading the Guinness World Record books as a kid?

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