Guinness World Records (GWR) is celebrating its 70th anniversary by highlighting unclaimed titles you might fancy going for.
The bookkeeper of weird and wacky achievements – the first volume of which was published on 27 August 1955 – is inviting people to try their hand at such extraordinary feats as:
• The most whoopee cushions sat on in one minute;
• The fastest time to blow a stamp 10 metres;
• The furthest distance bottle flip;
• The most high-fives in 30 seconds;
• The fastest 400-metre sack race;
• And the fastest time to ascend the height of Everest by bicycle.
GWR’s editor-in-chief Craig Glenday said the records are “there for the taking”, and looks forward to celebrating “the next generation of record-breakers”.
But it’s not just quirky milestones that GWR concerns itself with.
It recently celebrated the 116th birthday of the world’s oldest person, and oldest Briton ever, Ethel Caterham, while Taylor Swift’s recent album announcement also secured a record.
She announced The Life Of A Showgirl on the podcast of her fiance Travis Kelce and his brother Jason, helping it pull the most concurrent views ever for a podcast on YouTube with 1.3 million.
