An Egyptian man attempts a Guinness World Record for doing push ups on the two fingers of his right hand only last year
There are records in areas like most tattoos, most piercings, most married, longest hair, fastest talker and biggest hands. Some records appear in almost every edition of the book, like the tallest and shortest people and the oldest man and woman in the world. But as much as eighty percent of the content is new each year.
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CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: Why do people try to get into the Guinness book? That might seem like asking why Olympic athletes keep trying to run faster, throw farther and jump higher.
Guinness says a world record is not simply a fact but a way to measure ourselves. Knowing "the biggest, the smallest, the fastest, the most and the least," it says, helps us understand our position in the world and how we fit in.
BARBARA KLEIN: Larry Olmsted once held two Guinness records. He set one by playing poker for seventy-two hours, which was a record for that card game. He set the other for "Greatest Distance Between Two Rounds of Golf on the Same Day." He played golf in Australia and California -- a distance of more than twelve thousand kilometers.
Both records have since been broken, and Larry Olmsted says he has no plans to try to recapture them. Instead, he has written a book called "Getting Into Guinness: One Man's Longest, Fastest, Highest Journey Inside the World's Most Famous Record Book."
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