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Guinness World Records began with pub arguments

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The definitive catalog of human achievement was literally born out of drunken arguments. The managing director of the Guinness Brewery commissioned the reference guide in 1954 just so patrons would stop arguing over trivial facts and getting into fistfights. Thus, a legendary trivia empire was built entirely on alcohol-fueled stubbornness.

Guinness World Records began with pub arguments
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