page_title: Guinness World Records
section_title: Records
hierarchical_section_title: Guinness World Records / Records
caption_attribution_description: English: Lucky Diamond Rich face. Français&#160;: Lucky Diamond Rich, homme le plus tatoué du monde selon le Livre Guinness des records.
context_page_description: Guinness World Records is a reference book published each year. It has a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world. The book itself holds a world record, as the best-selling copyrighted book series of all time. It is also one of the most often stolen books from public libraries in the United States.
  It was known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous U.S. editions as The Guinness Book of World Records.
context_section_description: Recent editions have focused on record feats by human competitors. Competitions go from obvious ones such as weightlifting to the longest egg tossing distance, or for longest time spent playing Grand Theft Auto IV or the number of hot dogs that can be eaten in ten minutes. Eating contests and beer and alcohol consumption entries are no longer accepted, possibly for fear of litigation. Besides records about competitions, it has such facts as the heaviest tumor, the most poisonous plant, the shortest river (Roe River), the longest-running drama (Guiding Light) in the USA, the longest-serving members of a drama series (William Roache for Coronation Street in the UK, Ray Meagher for Home and Away in Australia), and the world's most successful salesman (Joe Girard), among others. 
  Each edition has a selection of the large set of records in the Guinness database. The ways used to make that choice have changed over the years. The newest records are added, and the records that have been updated are added too.
  In 2005, Guinness chose 9 November as International Guinness World Records Day.  This is to encourage breaking of world records. In 2006 about 100,000 people participated in over 10 countries. 
  In February 2008, NBC aired The Top 100 Guinness World Records of All Time. Guinness World Records made the complete list available on their website.
  On August 18 2019,Maliha Mohammed from Mombasa in Kenya  broke the record for cooking the longest time, a record 72 hours non stop.
caption: Lucky Diamond Rich is "the world's most tattooed person" , and has tattoos covering his entire body. He holds the Guinness world record as of 2006, being 100 percent tattooed.
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