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Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.
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A Russian woman named Valentina Vassilyeva and her husband Feodor Vassilyev are alleged to hold the record for the most children a couple has produced. She gave birth to a total of 69 children – sixteen pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets – between 1725 and 1765, a total of 27 births . 67 of the 69 children ...
The world's tallest man, as confirmed by the Guinness Book of Records, is Robert Pershing Wadlow, who was born in 1918 in Alton, Ill. Standing at a colossal 8'11.1″ (2.72 m) and weighing in at ...
In the United States, the form World's Record was formerly more common. The term The World's Best was also briefly in use. The latter term is still used in athletics events, including track and field and road running to describe good and bad performances that are not recognized as an official world record: either because it is not an event where World Athletics tracks the record (e.g. the 150 ...
This category is for articles about a subject who at some point set a world record. They still qualify for this category even if they no longer hold the record because it was later surpassed, since they held it at some point in the past; much like deceased people are no longer actively doing politics but are still categorized as politicians.
Timeline of national independence – List of countries by year of independence; Geopolitics – Study of geography's effects on politics; List of administrative division name changes; List of city name changes; List of national border changes (1914–present) – List of changes in national borders between nations since 1914
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