Guinness World Records® 2010
The World's Best-Selling Copyright Book Celebrates The
End of the Decade with Incredible New Feats!

New Edition Reveals All New Records, Free Online Content,
The Top 100 Records of the Decade, A New "Steampunk" Design, Record of the Day, and More!

Commemorate the end of the first decade of the 21st Century with the world’s best resource for amazing feats and inspirational attainments - Guinness World Records 2010! Having sold over 100 million copies to date, the world’s best selling copyright book hits stores September 17th completely updated and loaded with incredible new facts ready to wow readers from around the globe!

The Guinness World Records 2010 edition features numerous new features to hail the end of this stunningly progressive decade and is filled to the brim with amazing content including: 
• The Top 100 Records of the Decade — check out the most astounding records of the past 10 years, including the Youngest Billionaire and the Fastest Computer
• Links to free online content — including video, photographs, screensavers, interviews, and more
• Brand new records and 100%-new photographs
• Record of the Day — there’s a new record for every single date of the year, find what record was set on your birthday
• Stylized “Steampunk” contemporary design

"Guinness World Records is all about chronicling the world’s best over the ages, and what better time to reflect on this century’s amazing achievements then at the end of its first decade?” said Craig Glenday, Guinness World Records Editor-in-Chief.

A “must-have” for both knowledge-seekers and aspiring record-breakers of all ages, Guinness World Records 2010 contains the most comprehensive collection of the greatest and most amazing accomplishments from around the world and beyond.

About Guinness World Records
Guinness World Records is the universally recognized authority on record-breaking achievement. First published in 1955, the annual Guinness World Records book is published in more than 100 countries and 25 languages and is the highest-selling books under copyright of all time with more than 3 million copies sold annually across the globe. Guinness World Records celebrated its 50th anniversary edition in 2004, a year after the sale of its 100 millionth copy. Guinness World Records also annually publishes the Gamer’s Edition; a records book devoted solely to the world of computer gaming and high score record achievements. The Guinness World Records website (www.guinnessworldrecords.com) receives more than 11 million visitors a year. Guinness World Records is part of the Jim Pattison Group, one of Canada’s largest privately owned companies which is a conglomerate of interests, including advertising, broadcasting, grocery stores and automotive retailing.
 

Canadian Pulls Plane to Achieve Guinness World Record Trenton, ON – On September 17th at 10:00 am ET, Rev. Kevin Fast, a Lutheran Pastor from Cobourg, On and a strong-man competitor successfully pulled a CC177 plane at CFB Trenton, setting a Guinness World Record for the Heaviest Aircraft Pulled by an Individual. The plane pulled weighed 416,299 lb, and it was pulled a distance of 8.8 metres in 1 minute 16 seconds. Fast also holds the record for Heaviest Vehicle Pulled Over 100-Ft, and prominently appears in the recently released Guinness World Records™ 2010: The Book of the Decade. Upon achieving his new record, Fast was proud and humble: “This is something that I have been wanting to do for a long time, it certainly took planning and a lot of practice – and I have done it – when one puts one’s mind to something, it is amazing what one can achieve!”  Canadian Record-Keeper Carey Low presided over the event ensuring that the plane pull met the Guinness World Record guidelines. He officially declared that Fast broke the record, which was previously held by David Huxley of Australia, who pulled a Boeing 747-400, weighing 412,264 lb, on 15 October 1997 at Sydney, Australia. “Everyone here was rooting for Kevin and wanted him to get this record. The folks at 8 Wing have been tremendously helpful and Guinness is proud to have witnessed this amazing feat – it was an incredible sight to see.  This is what Guinness World Records is all about – people striving to be the best that they can be; and to have another Canadian in the record database is spectacular” said Carey Low after declaring the record a success. The plane pulled was a Globemaster III, one of only four in Canada’s Air Force and is primarily used to deliver troops, equipment and cargo anywhere in the world; today was a unique situation.  The Commander of 8 Wing, Colonel Russ Williams, who attended the attempt, was delighted to support Fast’s Canadian attempt. Kevin Fast is going to rest for a while, contemplating his next Guinness World Record Attempt. CN Tower Retains Guinness World Record The signature icon of Toronto’s skyline. A symbol of Canada. One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World. Toronto’s CN Tower has many titles to boast, but one of the most impressive is its Guinness World Record for World’s Tallest Tower. With the recent building of the Burj Dubai in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, many believed that the CN Tower would lose its title. “I can confirm that the Toronto icon will retain its record, as a tower is defined by Guinness World Records and the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat as a building in which less than 50% of the construction is usable floor space” - Craig Glenday, Editor-in-Chief, Guinness World Records Celebrating the launch of Guinness World Records 2010, in which the CN Tower appears, Canadian Record-Keeper Carey Low presented CN Tower’s Chief Operating Officer Jack Robinson with another impressive Guinness World Records certificate for World’s Tallest Tower on Monday, September 21st in Horizons Restaurant atop the CN Tower.