Record-breaking Round Up
From the most tattooed man and a 103-year-old skydiver to homemade LEGO limbs and the largest testicle in the animal kingdom, Craig and the team look ...
Guinness World Records: Behind The Book
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Why grow your fingernails to nearly 30-ft in length? How do you find clothes when you’re over 8-ft tall? Who left skid-marks stretching for 6 miles…? Each week Editor-in-Chief Craig Glenday reveals the stories behind the superlatives to celebrate the launch of Guinness World Records 2020.
Survivors
Who’s survived the highest fall without a parachute? How many lightning strikes did one man endure in his lifetime? And what happens when you’re stung...
Fast track: The history of the world land-speed record
In this week’s podcast, GWR’s Editor-in-Chief Craig Glenday offers a quick-fire tour of the history of human speed records, taking you from sledges an...
From goldfish to Mars bars: how eating records have changed
One Sunday morning a woman went to hospital. She has abdominal pain, a swollen stomach and problems breathing. When the nurse asked the patient about ...
The tallest men in the world
What’s life like when you’re more than 7 ft, maybe even more than 8 ft tall? Guinness World Records Editor-in-Chief recalls meeting the world’s talles...
World's stinkiest plant
Why does the world’s smelliest plant reek of death and decay? Why does it bloom only once every few years? And why on Earth is it called the Giant Mis...
Sickbags, dinosaur poo and traffic cones: why do people collect the quirkiest things?
Why are we humans preoccupied with collecting the likes of bagpipes, lip balms, traffic cones and spoon rests? For some, it’s an all-encompassing life...
How do you go to the bathroom with the world’s longest fingernails?
Why grow your fingernails to a combined length of nearly nine metres? And how do you use the toilet if your thumbnail alone is 90 cm long? In this wee...
How a drunken argument turned into The Guinness Book of Records
Editor-in-Chief Craig Glenday reveals how a heated debate during a boozy dinner in Ireland led to the founding of The Guinness Book of Records and als...
Welcome to Guinness World Records: Behind The Book
Why grow your fingernails to nearly 30-ft in length? How do you find clothes when you’re over 8-ft tall? Who left skid-marks stretching for 6 miles…? ...