What do you get if you get a Guinness World Record?

As the world's unrivalled authority on record-breaking achievement, our role is to celebrate the world's best, to inspire ordinary people and to entertain and inform. For these reasons, we do not pay record-breakers for their achievements or for carrying out a record title attempt.

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What happens when you win a Guinness World Record?

If you are successful, congratulations - you will receive an official Guinness World Records certificate (further certificates and merchandise can be purchased in the GWR Store). If not, do not give up, you can apply again or pick a different record to attempt.

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Is there any benefit of Guinness World Record?

Being a Guinness World Record holder does not have any monetary benefits, but it may have some other benefits such as: Recognition: The Guinness World Record certificate is accepted globally and the holders of this certificate are known all around the world1.

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Which world record can I break?

Most socks put on one foot in 30 seconds

Can you put 28 socks on one foot in just 30 seconds? You can! Wow, well then do 29 and you will be a record breaker.

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What does Guinness World Record mean?

/ˌɡɪnɪs wɜːld ˈrekɔːdz/ /ˌɡɪnɪs wɜːrld ˈrekərdz/ ​a book, published every year, which gives all the records achieved in a very wide range of fields and activities. For example, the names of the oldest, tallest, richest and fastest people in the world are all given.

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Who holds most Guinness records?

Meet Ashrita Furman

Now aged 68, Furman, a New York-based health food store manager holds the Guinness World Record for the most Guinness World Records. While he has set more than 600 official records, currently he holds 530 of them.

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Did Eminem get a Guinness World Record?

Eminem's first appearance in the Guinness Book of World Records was in 2000 for being the "fastest-selling rap artist" with his third album The Marshall Mathers LP.

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Do you get paid to break a world record?

As the world's unrivalled authority on record-breaking achievement, our role is to celebrate the world's best, to inspire ordinary people and to entertain and inform. For these reasons, we do not pay record-breakers for their achievements or for carrying out a record title attempt.

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What is the easiest world record for kids?

Set a Record
  • Most tosses of a pancake in one minute.
  • Most Pokémon identified in one minute.
  • Most socks put on one foot in 30 seconds.
  • Fastest time to stack 20 LEGO® bricks in a right-angle tower.
  • Fastest time to pack a school bag.

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What is the quickest world record?

The fastest speed possible is the speed of light in a vacuum, where its velocity is 670,616,629 mph (1,079,252,848 km/h), equivalent to 10,337,670 cheetahs, 5,082 of the planet Mercury, or 12.5 S4714 stars.

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How does Guinness World Record make money?

The people behind the Guinness World Records used to make money by, well, selling books. But with the rise of the Internet came a decline in book sales, and so they had to create a new business model — selling publicity.

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How many Guinness World Records does Michael Jackson have?

Jackson's career was rewarded with 13 Grammy Awards, as well as the Grammy Legend Award and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award; 6 Brit Awards, 5 Billboard Music Awards and 24 American Music Awards. He currently holds 20 Guinness World Records.

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How many Guinness World Records does Messi have?

According to sources and the Guinness website, Lionel Messi possesses as many as 60 Guinness World records to his name. Argentine superstar Lionel Messi is arguably the greatest footballer of his generation and one of the best players of all time.

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What is the hardest world record?

Top 10 Most Difficult World Records to Beat
  • #8: Most Decorated Olympian. ...
  • #7: Most Metal Eaten. ...
  • #6: Heaviest Weight Lifted by the Human Tongue. ...
  • #5: Longest Distance to Pull an Airplane. ...
  • #4: Finding the World's Biggest Diamond. ...
  • #3: The Oldest Person to Wing Walk. ...
  • #2: World's Richest Person (Adjusted) ...
  • #1: Most World Records.

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What is the world record for folding paper?

How many times can you fold a piece of paper? In 2002, Britney Gallivan, then a junior in high school in Pomona, California, folded a single piece of paper in half 12 times. She currently holds the Guinness World Record for the most times to fold a sheet of paper in half.

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How long is the longest kiss?

  • Nov 29, 2022. ...
  • The couple. ...
  • The kiss lasted for a total of, 58 hours 35 minutes and 58 seconds. ...
  • Other competing couples around them fainted from exhaustion. ...
  • Rules. ...
  • They slurped food and liquid through a straw and even went to the toilet while kissing. ...
  • Prizes.

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Who is the 3 year old kid in Guinness World Record?

Wondering what a 3-year-old can be capable of? You would be surprised to know that Darshan won the honour of getting his name in the International Book of Records by identifying 197 countries through just their flags in just 4.40 minutes. The toddler also received an award from Kalam's World Records.

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What is the world record for a 9 year old?

The child prodigy achieved the record during the semi-final of the Yong Jun KL Speedcubing 2023 event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Can you believe that a nine-year-old has become the youngest to break the record for the fastest average time to solve a 3x3x3 rotating puzzle cube — all within 4.69 seconds?

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Who had the most babies?

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.

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How long is the world's longest hug?

Guinness said the record for the world's longest hug is currently held by Ron O'Neil and Theresa Kerr of Canada. Their embrace was achieved on June 13, 2010 and lasted 24 hours and 33 minutes.

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What's the world record for not blinking?

What is the world record of not blinking? The record for spending the longest time without blinking the eye was set by Anand Haridas (born on December 24, 1983) of Kannur, Kerala. He spent 1 hour and 31 minutes without blinking his both eyes, as confirmed on July 12, 2021.

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What is the most words said in 30 seconds?

Eminem Set a New World Record Spitting 229 Words In 30 Seconds On “Godzilla” Eminem hit an all time high. Again.

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How many words are in Rap God?

Rap God packs 1,560 words into six minutes and three seconds, an average of just under 4.3 words a second. It also includes a 15-second passage in which he manages 97 words, at just under 6.5 words a second, which is really quite fast.

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What is the record for Godzilla?

Eminem's third verse on the track holds the record for his fastest rap verse, rapping 11 syllables per second, or 222 words in 30 seconds.

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Who broke the most bones?

The record for the most broken bones in a lifetime is held by Evel Knieval, the famous motorcycle stuntman, who sustained 433 fractures by the end of 1975, when he retired from major performances.

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