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Guinness World Records

The writer is Sir Hugh Beaver, he asked a simple question: what was Europe’s fastest game bird? Despite a heated argument and an exhaustive search within the host’s reference library he could not find the answer.
Sir Hugh realized that similar questions were going unanswered all around the world, and that a definitive book containing superlative facts and answers would be of great use to the general public. With the help of the London-based fact-finding twins Norris and Ross McWhirter, he soon set about bringing this definitive collection of superlative facts to reality. On 27 August 1955, the first edition of “The Guinness Book of Records” was bound and, by Christmas that year, became Britain’s number one bestseller.
Over the intervening years, copies of The Guinness Book of Records – later renamed Guinness World Records – have continued to fly off bookshop shelves. During this time, it has become clear that, to our readers, a world record is more than a simple fact: it’s a means of understanding your position in the world… a yardstick for measuring how you and those around you fit in. Knowing the extremes – the biggest, the smallest, the fastest, the most and the least – offers a way of comprehending and digesting an increasingly complex world overloaded with information.
The page is always constantly updated, and it contains factual information about:
• Most consecutive haircuts by a team in 24 hours
• Largest game of dodgeball
• Longest marathon hosting a radio talk show (team)
• Largest cassata siciliana
• Most people apple bobbing and most apples bobbed in 3 minutes by a team of 6
• Largest ceramic mosaic to be unveiled
• Largest macaroni and cheese
• Largest king cake
• Longest stand up comedy show by an individual
• Most entries in a two person pantomime animal race
• 646 Students and NFL Star Set Fitness World Record
• Largest cooked ham
• Largest virtual aerobics/exercise class
• Largest parade of Mazda cars
• Bungee Jump Guinness World Record Attempt
• Oldest Living Man Turns 114
• Will Ferrell and DreamWorks Rally for Superhero World Record
• Largest T-shirt
From my point of view it is very interesting. I think that the content of the world records can be atractive for the learners, because they can take advantage of this to investigate and write paragraphs, essays to improve the way they write and to become good at writing.
The oficial page is interesting but not amazing, because it should contain a lot of colorful pictures and beautiful titles.
The site works very well, because a lot of people enter the site every day. About the sound and videos they are very funny and interesting, and my favourite video is The biggest hamburger that I have ever seen, and I would like to eat it.