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
Japanese competitive eater Takeru Kobayashi with two Guinness World Record certificates
Attendees at the 2011 Where's Wally? Guinness World Record event in Dublin, Ireland. Setting a record for 3,872 people dressed as Wally, the total was surpassed in 2017 with 4,626 people in Japan.
As of 2006[update], Lucky Diamond Rich holds the Guinness World Record of "The world's most tattooed person", with tattoos covering his entire body.
The North Beach (Nazaré, Portugal), listed on the Guinness World Records for the biggest waves ever surfed
Robert Pershing Wadlow, also known as the Alton Giant and the Giant of Illinois, was an American man known for being the tallest person in recorded history for whom there is irrefutable evidence. Wadl
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…from a Western movie-type holster. His fastest time for a draw was 0.02 seconds. Among exhibits were life-size statues of the world's tallest man, Robert Wadlow, and world's largest earthworm, an X-ray photo of a sword swallower, repeated lightning strike victim Roy Sullivan's hat complete with lightning holes…
Wadlow (left) with his father (who was 5 ft 11.5 in (1.82 m))
Wadlow, aged 9, beside a 10-year-old neighbor, circa January 1928.
Wadlow's shoe (US size 37 AA; UK size 36 or approximately European size 75) compared to a US size 12