• singer Amy Winehouse (pictured) gained entry to the Guinness World Records in 2009 for having the most Grammy Awards won by a British female act?
• former Romanian boxer Gogea Mitu is listed by the Guiness Book of World Records as the world's tallest professional boxer?
• the Chestnut Tree of One Hundred Horses, located on the eastern slope of Mount Etna, holds the world record for the "greatest tree girth ever", and is also the largest and oldest known chestnut tree?
• the largest body parts do not all belong to the largest animal, and that there are numerous Guinness World Records for the largest human body parts?
• the Turkmen Carpet Museum in Ashgabat has the world's largest hand-woven carpet, recognized by Guinness World Records?
• Pedro Matias typed a 264 character text message in 1:59, beating the existing Guinness Book of World Records record in the LG Mobile World Cup?
• Rock for the Rainforest holds the Guinness World Record for the largest environmental fundraising event?
• David Feldman, philatelist, achieved the world’s record price of 2.5 million Swiss Francs for a single postage stamp, the Treskilling Yellow for which he appeared in the 1996 Guinness Book of World Records?
• Giant George is recognised as the tallest dog ever by Guinness World Records and measures 43 inches (110 cm) high at the withers?
• Mangaloreans hold a Guinness world record for non-stop singing for 40 hours?
• Maurice Catarcio, at age 69, pulled an 80-foot (24 m) boat filled with 125 passengers while swimming 300 feet (91 m) in a lake, which earned him a place in The Guinness Book of World Records?
• amateur footballer Lee Todd is in the Guinness Book of World Records for the quickest sending off in a match, playing for just two seconds?

Facts on topics related to Guinness World Records

List of weather records

• some weather records include a 57.8°C (136°F) air temperature in Libya, 3.8 cm (1.5 in) of rain in just one minute in Guadeloupe, and a 47.6 cm (18.75 in) circumference hailstone in Nebraska?
• the 1911 United Kingdom heat wave set a July temperature record of 36 °C (97 °F) that was not broken until 79 years later?

Land speed record

• Lee Bible had no experience in driving at land speed record speed when he was hired to drive the White Triplex in an attempt to take the record back from Henry Segrave?
• the Daytona Beach Road Course was the site of fifteen world land speed records, and the course was instrumental in the formation of NASCAR?
• the Howmet TX (pictured) earned the first win for a gas turbine racing car in 1968, before earning three more victories and setting six FIA land speed records?
• when Rollie Free rode his motorcycle to a land speed record in 1948, he was wearing only a Speedo bathing suit, a shower cap, and a pair of borrowed sneakers?