Extraordinary World Records That Prove The Human Body And Mind Is Capable Of Anything

Memorizing a whole business's records
At first when you come across "Memorizing business records" as one of the Guinness Book of World Records amazing feats, you might be a little confused. It's pretty esoteric, even for them. Are there lots of people out there memorizing the business records of Apple and Google and trying to make it into the exclusive book?It turns out, no. This record has only ever been held by one person and probably won't be beaten anytime soon since it's been around for 180 years. There wasn't a Guinness adjudicator there when it happened, but they included it in the book, so they obviously think it's true.The story goes that Bartholomew Bidder had an amazing memory. He was born in 1809 and only lived until 1849, but in those 40 years he managed to fit in at least one mean feat of remembering stuff. In 1838 he became an actuary at the Royal Exchange Assurance Company. He probably thought he had landed a sweet gig, but that same year the whole company went up in smoke … literally. A fire destroyed every single record. But Bidder thought he could reconstruct everything using his awesome brain, and in six months he did. Of course, there was no way to know if what he came up with was right or wrong, but it's in the books so it counts.Imagine if your computer died and you lost everything on it. Would you be able to reconstruct even that? Thought not.