The Guinness Book of World Records taught me to believe in the accessibility of the improbable.
Fitting so many traders and salesmen together into a single, cavernous room won UBS a place in the Guinness Book of World Records.
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According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the tallest Christmas tree ever cut was a 221-foot Douglas fir displayed in Seattle, Washington.
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If Airbus appears to covet recognition in the Guinness Book of World Records, Boeing seems predisposed to making a favorable impression in airlines' inventories.
The oldest person who ever lived was Louise Calment of France, a woman who topped 122 years, the Guinness Book of World Records reports.
In 1975, Ross McWhirter, co-editor and compiler of the Guinness Book of World Records, was shot dead by Irish Republican Army gunmen at his home.
"The Guinness Book of World Records changed my life, " Puntillo says.
She only became the world's oldest person last week, after the death of a 115-year-old man in Puerto Rico, the Guinness Book of World Records said.
The code also got the Kraays into the Guinness Book of World Records for "World's Largest QR Code, " which was really what drove this whole project.
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Weighing in at 5 pounds on a thick gold chain, the creation was named the world's largest non-religious neck pendant by the Guinness Book of World Records.
She was recently listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the female with the most simultaneous hits at once in the top 100 (11).
The bhut jolokia pepper, which is farmed in the northeast part of the country, was plucked from obscurity last year when the Guinness Book of World Records declared it the world's hottest.
Okay, one would think that a car that could get into the Guinness Book of World Records for achieving such a feat (64.55 miles per gallon, which has been verified) is believable, right?
The largest loaf of bread weighed was baked by a Brazilian on November 13, 2008 in the city of Curitiba in Parana state, south Brazil, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
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Paulo Coelho, the bestselling author whose novel The Alchemist has been dubbed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the most translated book by a living author (into a total of 53 languages), recently wrote an article strongly advocating for online peer-to-peer book sharing.
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Sherchan climbed the 29, 028 feet (8, 848-meter) Everest at the age of 76 in 2008 but when the 2009 Guinness Book of World Records came out, Japanese national Yuichiro Miura was recorded as the oldest person to reach the top of the world aged a sprightly 75.
This is only the latest challenge for the man described in the Guinness Book of Records as "the world's greatest living explorer".
Manuel Uribe, a former mechanic, entered the Guinness Book of Records as the world's heaviest man when he weighed 560kg - the weight of a small truck.
The organisers hope those world-beating dimensions will be enough to earn a place in the Guinness Book of Records for the largest ostrich sandwich ever.
Reportedly, the rounds they had been firing were blanks -- which did not prevent them from gaining the world's biggest gems robbery record in Guinness Book of Records.
We actually got a Guinness Book of World Records for developing this lightest solid material in the world.
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