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.
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.
The oldest person who ever lived was Louise Calment of France, a woman who topped 122 years, the Guinness Book of World Records reports.
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.
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.
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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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 Guinness Book of World Records taught me to believe in the accessibility of the improbable.
We actually got a Guinness Book of World Records for developing this lightest solid material in the world.
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 Guinness Book of World Records changed my life, " Puntillo says.
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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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).
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?
Another Twitter user has now tweeted that Ms Cheng should apply for a place in the Guinness Book of World Records, because the five words she added to the message had cost her a year of freedom.
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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The two record attempts will be adjudicated by an observer on behalf of Guinness World Records.
It weighed 1.57 tons (3, 463 lb) and was made by Joaquim Goncalves in celebration of Guinness World Records Day.
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Alastair Richards, president of Guinness World Records, says the organization is moving with the times in a bid to attract younger readers.
The volunteers donned nuns' outfits and gathered in the field, where they were counted by officials acting on behalf of Guinness World Records.
"The greatest living explorer" according to the Guinness World of Records, the undisputed king of narrow escapes, reflects on his life at the edge of reason -- and what it's like to lose your fingers to frostbite.
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.
This is only the latest challenge for the man described in the Guinness Book of Records as "the world's greatest living explorer".
"The Guinness World Records title is an important recognition of our breakthrough technology and a testament to the work done by our team of innovators, " said Mark Dankberg, chairman and CEO of ViaSat.
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But he, too, endured a string of setbacks in Taichung theme parks, the Guinness World Records Museum and a roast lamb restaurant.
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Marjorie Ruddle and Dorothy Richards, 108, were named by Guinness World Records in June as having the highest combined age of two living siblings.
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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.
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