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The official register of the longest, fastest and most improbable things people have done entirely on purpose.
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Guinness World Records sits in Curious Facts under Learn, filed as coffee break.
About this category: Records, comparisons, scale demonstrations and weird knowledge. The category most likely to produce a sentence beginning "did you know".
Yes. Guinness World Records is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Guinness World Records without signing up for anything.
Yes. Guinness World Records works on phones as well as desktop browsers.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Coffee break": Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
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