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World Records That Will Never Be Broken

Joe Scott | November 12, 2026



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The Guinness Book of World Records started out as a fun conversation starter for pubs selling Guinness beer. It has become a worldwide phenomenon that people literally risk their lives get their names into. But there are some records that should maybe stay unbroken. Here’s a list of some of the biggest ones.

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LINKS LINKS LINKS
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/25jeeb/world_record_dive_177_feet_54m_olivier_favre/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpYWnpLUllA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPS1q3QBBDo
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2015/12/new-photos-laso-schaller-completes-the-highest-cliff-jump-ever-attempted-408930
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_diving
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/about-us/our-story
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness_World_Records
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/64635-most-points-scored-by-an-individual-in-an-nba-game
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/723754-highest-death-toll-from-a-ship-disaster-iceberg
https://chartmasters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/2025-Taylor-Swift-album-and-song-sales.jpg
https://chartmasters.org/top-album/
https://www.therevolverclub.com/blogs/the-revolver-club/the-bar-why-thriller-remains-the-highest-selling-album-of-all-time
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/70133-best-selling-album
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/oldest-person
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2021/10/why-robert-wadlow-will-be-the-tallest-person-ever-forever-680024
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/67621-strangest-diet
https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/03/07/michel-lotito-ate-entire-airplane/
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2023/4/why-record-breaking-47-minute-saxophone-note-is-too-dangerous-to-outdo-745398
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2023/7/why-did-we-deactivate-the-longest-kiss-world-record-754853
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2024/2/the-deadly-history-of-the-water-speed-world-record-764494

TIMESTAMPS
0:00 – Highest Dive
2:13 – A History of The Guinness Book of World Records
4:00 – Sports Records
6:24 – The Titanic Death Toll
7:56 – Michael Jackson’s Thriller
9:35 – Oldest Person Ever
13:30 – Tallest Person Ever
15:00 – Too Dangerous For Guinness
21:30 – Water Speed Record

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Comments

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  1. @Aisaaax

    November 12, 2026 at 11:16 pm

    Also speaking of Michael Jackson, wasn't it proven just this year that his accuser lied about everything? And completely derailed Michael's life and ruined him? 😮

  2. @Aisaaax

    November 12, 2026 at 11:16 pm

    7:00 I think you underestimate the power of human stupidity when you say that such a disaster will never happen again. Take, for example, Costa Concordia. The captain refused to admit that the ship is sinking for a good half an hour, was coping, and refused to start evacuation. This didn't end in total tragedy because instead of sinking it just touched the bottom and rolled on its side. But if something like that happened in the open ocean, for whatever reason, and you got such a captain, you have a chance to lose a lot of lives.
    It's just a matter of the probability of rolling that alignment of unfortunate factors. 😮

  3. @bholdr----0

    November 12, 2026 at 11:16 pm

    Here's a couple of unbreakable baseball records

    Johnny Vandermeer- two no-hotters in consecutive starts. Heck, it'll probably never be matched! (And broken? That would require three no-nos in a row!)

    Also, Joe Dimaggio and 'The Streak' (of 56 consecutive games with a base hit), statistically, should take about 10,000 years of Major League Baseball to be broken. It should not have happened. (Though, there was a slightly longer hit streak in the Pacific Coast League- 61, a record held by… Joe Dimaggio!)

    P.S: Supposedly Satchel Paige pitched back to back no hitters several times, even against major league level players- but that wasn't IN the Majors.

  4. @lumpytwothree

    November 12, 2026 at 11:16 pm

    I'm not sure just because Guinness Book of Records don't have the category anymore is a good enough reason to say that these records won't be broken. Guinness don't own the rights to records or who gets to attempt them. Although I have heard they try to. I also heard it could cost thousands of dollars to get them to judge attempts, essentially holding records for ransom. Records are there to be broken and Guinness can't stop you from attempting them or braking them. The internet is a thing. Chuck it on YouTube or online somewhere and you good to go.

  5. @Blue-raleigh

    November 12, 2026 at 11:16 pm

    I don’t know any drunks reading Guinness world book of records, they are usually for kids to read and they typically get them for Christmas : I’m Irish and that’s how I know about the books in the first place

  6. @spacebees86

    November 12, 2026 at 11:16 pm

    if I was falling into open water, cold deep ocean. and I had a flamethrower or firebending powers or whatever that allowed me to boil an area of water beneath me before I hit it, so that the bubbles soften the impact. would I be burned by the water or would the surrounding cold leech the heat away by the time I hit? how far up would you have to be for that to balance out into a "safe" landing, if it's even possible?
    Why do you make me think these things?
    Also in college we pronounced Merganser the way you did, as a joke.

  7. @marc.ristau

    November 12, 2026 at 11:16 pm

    I think GTA V will stay as the most sold full priced retail ever. Tetris is ahead across multiple iterations and developers and Minecraft, but that’s a comparatively cheap "indie" game that wasn’t available for retail.

    GTA V sits at 225 million units sold and Red Dead 2 which is the next best selling game is at 90. GTA IV sits at 25 million and Cyberpunk 2077 is at 40 million for some other comparison.

    Just something timely for next weeks launch

  8. @TheLemonyBard

    November 12, 2026 at 11:16 pm

    23:20 I have quite a few small speedrun world records (none recognized by Guinness, at least not yet), some tied with others and others completely alone. My silliest one is called “Melatonin% NG+” for Kirby Super Star, in which you make Kirby fall asleep as fast as possible (13.383 seconds).

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