By Tom Bevan

Guinness World Records is celebrating 70 years by recognizing achievements - including the largest Spice Girls collection and fastest bumper car ever built.

The institution started with a pub question “What’s the fastest game bird in Europe?”, a query that inspired its first book, compiled in a room above a London gym and published on 27th August 1955.

That single volume sparked worldwide curiosity about extraordinary feats, and GWR has since authenticated thousands of r ecords in sports , technology, the human body, super skills and collections.

To mark the moment, GWR are celebrating record-breaking achievements and milestone moments over the last seven decades, including a handful who have been positively impacted by record-breaking in their lives.

Among them is Liz

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