This week it's the 70th birthday of the Guinness Book of Records, that gloriously bonkers compendium of human achievement that celebrates the people who can stuff the most marshmallows in their mouth, balance the most spoons on their body, and hula hoop underwater for the longest time.
It features everything from standard athletic victories to "most high fives in 30 seconds" and "fastest time to make a pasta necklace." And to my mind, there's something delightfully democratic about it all. While most of us will never run a four-minute mile, we might just have what it takes to become the world's fastest at typing the alphabet backwards.
