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Guinness World Records was founded in 1951 when Sir Hugh Beaver - then managing director of the Guinness Brewery - asked a simple question: what was Europe's fastest game bird? With the help of the London-based fact-finding twins Norris and Ross McWhirter, he set about creating a definitive catalogue of notable feats which culminated on August 27, 1955, in the publication of the first edition of "The Guinness Book of Records". By Christmas that year it became Britain's number one bestseller and has since produced a book each year under its new title, Guinness World Records.

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The sale to an Asian customer handily surpasses the US$201 million cover bought by a tech billionaire in California in March 2014. It was certified by Guinness World Records.

Bobi, a purebred Rafeiro Alentejano, had his title as ‘world’s oldest dog’ revoked after Guinness World Records said it found no evidence he had in fact lived for more than 31 years.

Created to usher in the Year of the Dragon, Wilson Pang’s 38,000-balloon installation for a Hong Kong shopping mall has scooped the Guinness World Record for ‘largest balloon sculpture of a dragon’.

Kuroyanagi’s childhood memoir Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window is the most published autobiography written by a single author, Guinness World Records said on Monday.

Tomoko Horino, who started working for a cosmetics company in the 1960s, has raked in more than US$835,000 over her career – and she still nails her sales goals.

Bobi, a guard dog, claimed the Guinness World Record for world’s oldest dog from Bluey, an Australian cattle dog, who died in 1939 aged 29 and had held the record for almost a century.

Pepper X has beaten the Carolina Reaper as the world’s hottest chilli pepper, clocking in at 2.69 million Scoville units, fiercer than police pepper spray. Its creator, Ed Currie, describes its ‘brutal heat’.

‘I don’t feel alone any more, I feel together, a part of something. Being here I’m completed,’ said Liam Hunter from Scotland at the Redhead Days Festival in the southern town of Tilburg.

As Jacky Cheung Hok-yau turns 62, we recall the singer and actor’s best career moments, including the two occasions when he was named “bestselling Asian artist in the world”.

The group includes a British billionaire aviator, a prominent Pakistani businessman and his son, and the founder of OceanGate Expeditions, the company that put on the trip to the Titanic.

Canistus Coonge’s stone was 13.37cm long and weighed 801 grams, making it slightly longer, and much heavier, than the average male kidney. The retired soldier feels ‘normal’ now.

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Made by Japanese ice-cream brand Cellato, the world’s most expensive ice cream includes white truffle from Alba, edible gold and cheese, and has set a Guinness World Record.

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Bobi, whose mother died aged 18, lives in a Portuguese village and has never been chained or put on a lead. More than 100 people attended his birthday party.

The people at Guinness love distance-related achievements. From quirky travel using unconventional means of transport to inspiring feats of endurance, here are some world records that may leave you gasping.

Beatriz Flamini, an elite sportswoman and mountaineer, described her experience as ‘excellent, unbeatable’, adding that time had flown by.

Astronauts preparing for a Mars mission were accompanied by a Japanese-made robotic seal during a two-week simulation to see if it helped with their stress levels.