The 12 Weirdest Guinness World Records Ever

October 1955 marks the year the first edition of The Guinness Book of Records was published. It contained 198 pages and 50,000 copies were printed. It only took two months for the book to become a bestseller in England. A copy of the was offered to each member of the brewery at half the book’s retail price.The book had 12 separate chapters. Each section of the book had a different title. They were; The Universe, The Natural World, The Animal Kingdom, The Human Being, The Human World, The Scientific World, The World’s Structures, The Mechanical World, The Business World, Accidents and Disaster, Human Achievements and Sport.