How was Guinness Book of Records started? It all happened in May 1951. Sir Hugh Beaver, then the managing director of the Guinness Breweries, was involved in an argument on a party in a bar. The argument was about which was the fastest bird in Europe. Sir Beaver realized that there was no book which allowed settling arguments about records, and he thought that a book of this kind might become popular.

The first 197-page edition of The Guinness Book of Records was published on August 27, 1955. It quickly flew to the top of the British bestseller lists by Christmas. Since then about 400 million Guinness World Record copies were published. The most recent one is scheduled to be released in 2011. Let’s see what world records it will show.

Smallest Car

Made by British inventor Perry Watkins, this car has become the smallest car in the world. It measures just 41 inches high, 51 inches long and 26 inches wide.

This is a short list of things we shouldn’t feed our dogs. They can be dangerous to your pet.

10.
Nuts

Squirrels love them, dogs like them, but they can be bad for your pet. Nuts are high in fat and can cause your pooch to vomit and have diarrhea.

Neal Thompson dresses up as Jesus, and has for 22 years to represent Jesus.  He wants to spread the word in churches throughout Saint Louis and the US; at least he did until he came to St. Paul’s Lutheran Church.

Right now you have a unique chance to peer inside one of the Moscow skyscrapers. You won’t believe your eyes as you can clearly see offices on each floor.

This is the result of special surgery that gives the person 6 pack abdominal muscles. The method uses superficial liposuction on the tummy. In order to look this way you have to have only 3% to 5% body fat. The surgery costs as much as $20,000.

No, they are not grandfather and grandson.

Go inside the post to see what it’s all about…

These are people and animals that are just jumping. Some are jumping for joy, some are jumping for fun, some are jumping for sport, but mostly they are just jumping. They are awesome jumps.

This is chewing gum art that was created by artist Ben Wilson. While most people think chewing gum on the street is disgusting, the chewing gum artist certainly makes a decorative statement with it. 

Something new to laugh about. Enjoy this new collection of epic fails.

All previous parts:

Epic Fails. The Best of the Best. Part 1 (79 pics)

Epic Fails. The Best of the Best. Part 2 (65 pics)

Epic Fails. The Best of the Best. Part 3 (77 pics)

Epic Fails. The Best of the Best. Part 4 (96 pics)

Epic Fails. The Best of the Best. Part 5 (58 pics)

Epic Fails. The Best of the Best. Part 6 (55 pics)

Epic Fails. The Best of the Best. Part 7 (60 pics)

Epic Fails. The Best of the Best. Part 8 (35 pics)

Epic Fails. The Best of the Best. Part 9 (69 pics)

It is hard to believe that real love is present on these photographs. It seems that Russian girls dream about wealthy life so badly they would do anything to marry a foreign groom, no matter what his age and appearance are, and move abroad.

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What is this?  A Yarn ball?  Mud Ball? Fur Ball.  All wrong, this is a poor little dog left for dead in a ravine.

They should really make an effort in translation for bootleg DVDs; Engrish is not an option.

But the most disturbing is when they hybridize two famous movies. What’s that all about?

Star Wars

More like Star Predators: Episode 1.

Can you imagine a ceiling look this way? It is very unusual.

China is the world’s most populous country. Thus there is a big problem with housing in China, and this is how the national issue can be solved.

It’s probably hard to live having so many neighbors surrounding you, but how else can you settle 1.3 billion people on 9,326,410 square kilometers?

Everybody knows the U.S. Dollar design. It hasn’t changed since 1928, but the time has come to rebrand it. A contest to redesign the American’s buck is run worldwide. Inside this post, you can see many bold new designs of the Dollar bill. Feel free to comment on which design you like the most.

Sometimes when you carefully read recipe guides, the words can have double meaning. This is when the whole cooking process becomes hilarious!

This statue of Jesus is truly bigger than life. It is located in a small town in Poland. It cost $1,500,000 and stands 157 feet tall and is the tallest statue of Jesus Christ in the world. The next closest is Jesus Christ, the redeemer in Rio de Janeiro which is 125 feet tall.

Yesterday, 4 November, an Airbus A380 belonging to Australian company Qantas, made an emergency landing at the airport of Singapore. The reason is that one of the plane’s engines failure. After the plane took off the engine just shut down.

It was reported first that the plane had crashed but later the information confirmed that the aircraft returned to Singapore as a precaution.

None of 459 passengers were injured.

These babies all have 9 lives or a guardian spirit that rides on their shoulders. These small children have one thing in common, they have all taken serious falls and crawled away virtually unscathed.

This shows the evolution of New York City’s Subway from 1919 to 2010. The subway is an amazing transportation system that numerous New Yorkers depend on. It operates both above ground and underground.

1910s -1930s

This story will shock most of you, but according to the mother it is common for her people to get married early and have children.

These parking notes are somewhat passive aggressive. Some are nice, some all nasty, and they all are extremely funny. No doubt other people got to read them while the owner was gone and now they all know what a lousy parking job the owner did and what they think of him.

These are some very old discount coupons. They were both placed in magazines a mailed directly to potential customers. The idea was to tempt people to try their product. By and large the businesses’ plan worked. This all started in the mid 1890s.