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The Guinness Book of Records (Guinness World Records in its original title) is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the natural world. The book itself is a world record, as the series with best-selling copyright of all time. It is also one of the books most stolen from public libraries in the United States.

History

The "Guinness World Records said his organization was started when one day in 1951, Sir Hugh Beaver, then the executive director of Guinness Brewery, was hunting with his colleagues and debating whether the fastest game bird in Europe was the plover gold or grouse. It struck him that a book would provide the answer to these questions could become very popular.

The idea of ​​Sir Hugh Beaver became a reality when he decided to entrust to Norris and Ross McWhirter, who had a time in charge of a research company in London, to compile what became The Guinness Book of Records. The first edition was published on August 27, 1955, and that Christmas was number one bestseller in the United Kingdom.

Since then, Guinness World Records has become a widely known brand in the field of world records.

In Guinness World Records, the Records Management team is responsible for monitoring the accuracy and the team of Records Managers maintains the veracity. Both filters are needed for a record is accepted.

Some Guinness Records are:

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With sales exceeding 100 million copies in 100 countries and 37 languages, Guinness World Records â„¢ is the best selling book of all time, if we exclude works free of copyright as the Bible.

For example, one of the last record entered for that book is the longest tennis match in history, played between 22 and 24 June 2010 between Nicolas Mahut and John Isner, which lasted 11h and 5m. Everything under the Tennis Grand Slam Wimbledon.

Also found in him Stefania Fernandez Miss Universe 2009 to be crowned for the first time in the history of the Miss Universe Dayana Mendoza fellow, both from Venezuela.

On March 23, 2011 was given the record in the making of the world's largest arepa by Empresas Polar, Caracas, Venezuela, for processing using one of its flagship products of that country, "Corn Meal PAN pre-cooked "in the framework of the celebration of 70 years of the brand. The arepa in question required of 230 kg of flour, salt, oil and water to achieve a mix of 683 kg and 493.2 kg obtained as a result of arepa perfectly cooked and ready to eat after 50 minutes of cooking. The record was ratified by the official Guinness adjudicator Ralph Hannah, who savored the arepa and made official the new brand.