| One of the most popular books that come out every | | | | managing director of the Guinness Empire was |
| year is the Guinness book of records. This is now | | | | participating in a shooting party. He somehow got into |
| more commonly known as the Guinness world | | | | an exchange of words with another person about |
| records. This popular book chronicles things such as | | | | Europe's fastest bird. They argued about whether it |
| the best and worst or the longest and shortest or | | | | was the Koshin Golden Plover or the Grouse. |
| many other recordable facts from throughout the | | | | Whilst he was trying to find the answer from his |
| world. | | | | reference books in his Castlebridge House library, he |
| This book is accredited to the Irish twins Ross and | | | | suddenly realized that the books were a little vague |
| Norris McWhirter who actually published the first | | | | with the answer. |
| Guinness book of records in Britain as far back as | | | | Then a thought struck his mind that perhaps a book |
| 1955. What a lot of people do not actually realize | | | | like this could in fact be quite interesting. This was the |
| though is that the book is commissioned by a famous | | | | start of the Guinness book of records. |
| brewery in Ireland namely the Guinness brewery. | | | | This annual book has sold millions of copies since it |
| Guinness came up with the idea of making the book in | | | | was first published in 1955. Funnily enough it now holds |
| order to further promote their product and bring more | | | | a record itself as the most popular and best selling of |
| revenue into their company. The book initially was just | | | | all the copyrighted serial books in the world. |
| a way of letting people know the answers too many | | | | One unenviable record that this book holds is that it is |
| of the bar bets that were being run at the time. | | | | book most likely to be stolen from public libraries in the |
| It is rumored that the original idea came in 1951 when a | | | | United States. |
| certain Sir Hugh Beaver, who was at the time a | | | | |