Sir, Mulu, that's Mr. . Eats everything in French. He held the record for the world's strangest diet.>> The guy who' you know, he'd supposedly eaten a Cessna cuz he could eat metal and glass. >> A Cessna plane. >> Well, apparently it took him 2 years.We couldn't quite get >> sound very healthy. >> Well, I mean, he his wife wouldn't let him use the toilet at home cuz if he'd been eating metal, it tends to come out like bullets and it would chip the porcelain. So, he'd have to use a hotel with metal toilets n ...

The idea for the book began during a hunting trip at this country estate in Ireland, where the manager of the Guinness Brewery got into an argument over who could name the fastest game bird in Europe. To settle future pub debates, he commissioned a book of superlatives, which eventually became the Guinness World Records. The first one was published in 1955.>> The initial reaction from the book trade was not that positive. In the first sales meeting ever, the the salesperson wrote six on the slip and they sa ...

Many of the record holders you know, Usain Bolt for the fastest 200 m, Beyonce for the most Grammys, and many you've probably never even imagined. Go. >> Like serial record breaker David Rush, an Idaho tech worker who has broken more than 350 records and counting, including most bites taken from three apples while juggling for a minute.>> Just passed the 2-m mark. And most t-shirts worn during a half marathon. ...

Not everyone chooses to break records. >> I'm 5'10". So, what was she. >> She's just on seven foot.>> The tallest and shortest people often have had genetic conditions. The woman with the longest fingernails, 43 feet, hasn't cut them since her daughter, who painted her nails, passed away in 1997. So, she still holds the record. >> Still has the record.And I think that's the longest ever measured. ...

One of my favorite days in the job was I was at the X Games at the Staple Center in LA and a dog zipped past me on a skateboard and despite the heat, I chased after this dog and I found the owner and said, "I've never seen a dog on a skateboard." And he said, "Oh, this is Tilman. He loves skateboarding." I had a tape measure. We measured out 100 meters in the car park at the Staple Center and we set the record there and then cuz I was so amazed by it. >> Do you just walk through the world with a tape measur ...

There are the rules. So rigid they've sparked office debates over who makes the cut for the largest gathering of people dressed as Smurfs. >> So it's like, okay, well, what is a Smurf.What do they wear. Do they all have blue skin. Yes.You know, you might have to write guidelines for any possible topic. So we've got this huge big book of experts, you know, from archaeologists >> to smurfs >> to smurfologists. Yeah.I don't know if that's something but you know like we've we've got a mmacologist which >> what ...

Is Google your biggest competition. I could pull my phone out right now and search the world's fastest bird. >> You might as well open the window and shout your question into the street and you'll get an answer.Yeah, but is it the right one. Well, I can say I know Sultan Coen's 8' 3 because I've I was there with a tape measure. I measured him.>> He's also measured the shortest person who he learned about after a wood cutter passed through a remote village in Nepal and alerted the team at Guinness World Reco ...

I got to tell you, I thought it would be a little crazier in here. >> Inside the company's London headquarters, Glende keeps a cabinet of greatest hits. >> It's Craig's cabinet of curioities, >> like the world's smallest playing cards and a giant size 29 shoe.>> My arm. I'm like the Vanna White of oddities here. >> What is this.>> Um, if you have a little investigation of that. Uh, it's the world's oldest vomit. >> Vomit.>> Vomit's about >> You got me on that one. 160. ...

The largest pizza party is probably the most competitive record that I've ever been a part of. >> Is that true. >> I didn't think it would be as it's it's a lot.Yes. >> Stressing you out. >> It's This is probably one of the most stressful record attempts I've had.>> Colin Kaplan needs 3,358 people to show up in order to beat the current record. >> And you want to beat Tulsa. >> We're going to beat Tulsa, Oklahoma.>> Participants get 15 minutes to eat two slices of pizza and drink a bottle of water. But here ...

Humans are such an interesting bunch, aren't we. And record-breaking is an innately human thing. And if that means you do strange things like swallowing sausages whole or climbing Everest or running a marathon with a milk bottle on your head, then that's that's fine.That's great. >> Craig Glende has been the book's editor-inchief for the past 21 years. >> I really like that. So, I think we want more of that.In his signature Scottish accent, he recounts with a straight face what is often a circus of absurdit ...