For your Sunday morning edification:
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The "Guinness Book of Records" was created to settle arguments in pubs.
In 1954, Hugh Beaver, the managing director of the Guinness Brewery, began research on a new book of records meant to help settle pub arguments. The idea stemmed from a bird hunting expedition Beaver took in 1951, during which he and other guests debated about the fastest game bird. Unable to...
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