#22: Guinness Beginning

In the spirited din of a pub, where debates run as freely as the beer, the Guinness Book of Records was born — a brainchild of the brewery to end all bar quarrels. It’s a stroke of genius that seems to have been concocted over a pint itself: a book to quell the disputes that liquor loosens the tongue to start. This creation has since leaped from the counters of taverns to become a household name.

From a tool designed to impose order in the midst of barroom bluster, it has become the ultimate adjudicator of extraordinary facts worldwide. The legacy of the Guinness Book of Records has thus woven itself into the fabric of popular culture, extending well beyond the barstool debates it was intended to settle.