For 70 years, Guinness World Records has served as the definitive authority on stunts, challenges, and insanely wacky tasks that people take part in to etch their name into their world-famous book of records.
The idea originated in the early 1950s when Sir Hugh Beaver, the managing director of the Guinness Brewery, found himself in a heated argument during a shooting party in Ireland over the fastest game bird in Europe.
