Podcasts that mention 📚 The Guinness book of world records, 1998. by Mark C. Young

Yeah, let's, well you know what we get to do now in our typical two-episode procession, the way that is Stuff You Should Know, is we get to wash the stank of Unit 731 off of us by talking about a very fun thing, which is the Guinness Book of World Records, or the Guinness World Records. I feel like when I was a kid, it was called The Guinness Book of World Records in the United States.

The podcast hosts of Stuff You Should Know introduce a new episode focused on the 'Guinness Book of World Records', highlighting it as a light-hearted topic following a more serious discussion. They also reminisce about its title during their childhood.

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But only 4,000 records are put into the book every year, and a lot of those are like classics, like I think at least half are like classic ones that have been in there for years and years and years that people just want to see that weren't necessarily broken, you know, in the past year. Yeah, I tried to find new entries in the book each year and I couldn't find that number, but I mean it's not a lot.

The hosts discuss that only 4,000 records are published in 'the book' each year, emphasizing that many of these records are classics that have remained unchanged over the years. They also note that finding new entries each year can be challenging.

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