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Do Guinness World Records pay you?

Do Guinness World Records pay you?

As the world’s unrivalled authority on record-breaking achievement, our role is to celebrate the world’s best, to inspire ordinary people and to entertain and inform. For these reasons, we do not pay record-breakers for their achievements or for carrying out a record title attempt.

Who broke the most records ever?

Ashrita Furman (born Keith Furman, September 16, 1954) is a Guinness World Records record-breaker. As of 2017, Furman has set more than 600 official Guinness Records and currently holds 531 records, thus holding the Guinness world record for the most Guinness world records.

Where can you find Guinness World Record books?

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 reference book published annually , listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world. The brainchild of Sir Hugh Beaver, the book was co-founded by twin brothers Norris and

Who founded the Guinness World Records?

Guinness World Records was created in 1955 and was known as “The Guinness Book of World Records” in 1998. Sir Hugh Beaver was the rightful founder of this worldwide known book. Guinness World Records 2016 is a book written by The Guinness World Records company.

How did the Guiness Book of World Records start?

Guinness World Records History Where it all started The idea for a book of records begins in the early 1950s when Sir Hugh Beaver (1890-1967), Managing Director of the Guinness Brewery, attends a shooting party in County Wexford. There, he and his hosts argue about the fastest game bird in Europe, and fail to find an answer in any reference

What was the first Guinness World Record Book?

The very first edition of The Guinness Book of Records (as it was called then) was published on August 27th, 1955 . It was 7 inches wide, 10 inches long, had a lime green cover and stretched to 198 pages. It was the first time anything of its kind had ever been printed and no-one had any idea what a global phenomenon they had in their hands.