The Guinness World Records Were Once Awe-Inspiring and Hilarious. Now They’re Just Shady.
The Champagne tasting was over, and things had gotten tense. On one side of the discussion were representatives of the Knot, the wedding-guide website hosting the tasting. On the other, polite but firm, was Philip Robertson, a 41-year-old Scotland native wearing a green blazer that announced his affiliation with the Guinness World Records company. At issue was the question of whether more than 515 humans had completed all three rounds of the tasting.
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