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Guinness World Records Answers YOUR Questions!
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Apr 29, 2025
With millions of followers on our social media channels, you can imagine that we get a lot of questions about record breaking. Here, adjudicator Mark and GWR's Josephine sit down and discuss some of the most frequently asked questions. 00:00 Do I have a world record crisp? 01:16 What's your favourite adjudication? 01:44 How do I create a new record? 02:22 How do we prove the world's oldest person? 03:14 Why do we monitor 'silly' records? 03:54 Do I have to pay to be in the book? 04:51 Have I found the smallest chicken egg? 05:27 Why does the book have next year's date on it? 06:05 Are you linked to Guinness, the beer? 07:34 Is there a record for the most beautiful person?
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we get lots of questions about finding
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really big snacks if I was to find like
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a big cheese puff could that be a record
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a large snack or large food records
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involve the creation of manufactured
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scaled up versions now these are people
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working towards the creation of a larger
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version of your cheese puff for example
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they've got to be involving Manpower
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resources and the normal ingredients
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involved in the creation of it in order
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to make those scaled up versions if
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you've just found it then it doesn't
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really fall under the same level of
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record-breaking there's got to be that
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skill there and that determination
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because finding these things it's not
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uncommon these irregularities come out
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of factories all the
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time over the years Guinness World
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Records have showcased some amazing
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records from the fastest people on Earth
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to the highest mountain the most space
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walks to Coconut being headbutted to the
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tallest dog all the way to the shortest
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dog but we always always get thousands
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of questions and I mean thousands of
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questions so today we're going to answer
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them obviously not all of them hi I'm
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Josephine and today we're going in the
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comments with Guinness World Records and
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I have your favorite adjudicator with us
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Mark to answer your questions tell us
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what do you think your favorite
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adjudication been well I've had the joy
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of adjudicating a lot of different
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attempts uh highlight for me though H
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was at the premier of San Andreas
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getting to adjudicate Dwayne The Rock
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Johnson and his attempt of the most
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selfies Tak in 3 minutes big fan of the
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Rock and almost had to disqualify him
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did you manage to get a selfie I did not
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in fact I did get a selfie I was on his
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Instagram feed and I think I'm still
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there oh good so Mark let's say I wanted
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to propose a new record what would I
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need to do well first of all you need to
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go on to our website and send your idea
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through to us that idea then goes to our
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records team who will look at it check
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it and make sure that it meets our
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internal criteria if it does then we'll
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write up guidelines for it rules and
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regulations that you'll need to follow
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as well as listing all of the evidence
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requirements that you'll need and then
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send them off to you once you've got
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them you attempt your record you send us
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the evidence back and then we find out
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whether or not you've been successful at
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World Records we always like to
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celebrate all kinds of achievements and
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one we're specifically interested in is
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the oldest people so Mark how can you
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prove that someone is the oldest person
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we'll often see claims reported in the
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media for the oldest people but it will
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look like it's fairly modern ID we need
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so much more to support that birth
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certificates marriage certificates
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photographs from throughout their life
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witness statements from people who've
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known them we need to be able to prove
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it in terms of fully verified people the
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oldest man ever was Jiran Kimura from
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Japan who lived to be 116 years and 54
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days old and the oldest woman ever was
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Jean Luiz calmon from France who lived
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to be 122 years and 164 days old
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there's a lot of comments that claim
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that our records have become a lot less
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serious over the
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years this is the first edition
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1955 smells old so Mark have we always
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monitored unusual records well it's a
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common misconception that we're always
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serious and all of our records are
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serious in that very addition there are
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a number of Records in there that some
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people might consider to be silly uh
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we've got a record for the longest time
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rocking on a rocking chair
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uh 92 hours if you're interested um
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we've got the most raw eggs eaten at the
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longest time squatting on a pole H and
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also a record for a man in Spain who
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drank 40 PS of wine in 59 minutes now I
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should say that is a record that we no
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longer Monitor and for good reason a
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question we get asked quite a lot is do
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you have to pay to be in the book short
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answer no what goes into the book is
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decided upon by our editorial team they
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find the best records to fit with themed
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spreads and sometimes a theme for the
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whole book for the 2024 Edition it's
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underwater now when it comes to applying
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for a record there can be fees involved
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now if you're applying for an existing
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title and you're an individual then it's
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absolutely free of charge nothing at all
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if however you're suggesting a new title
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then there is a fee of $5 Us in order to
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get that processed of course there are
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additional costs along the way for some
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records if you want to use our logo for
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example there's licensing costs there if
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you want to invite an adjudicator
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there's a cost there so that you can get
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verification on the day if you're a
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business and you're looking to get a bit
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of assistance going through the process
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then that's chargeable as well something
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that is quite unusual is the amount of
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comments we get on people's chickens
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laying tiny little eggs Mark is this a
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record that we monitor unfortunately no
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no it's quite common for chickens to lay
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quite small eggs we do have a record for
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the smallest bird egg however which may
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be of interest um it's held by the veran
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hummingbird which can be found in
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Jamaica and some surrounding eyelets
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their eggs can measure less than 10 mm
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or .39 in so very tiny smaller than a
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chickens a lot of people have asked why
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does the book come out with next year's
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date well the 23rd edition of our book
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which was released on the 28th of
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October back in
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1976 was the first book to have the date
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on the front and they called it the 1977
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Edition now the reason they did that was
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because it was released in time for
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Christmas so most people only really saw
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it the last week of the year so there
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was a good chance it was already going
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to be out of date by the time they got
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it it's quite common in publishing
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actually and once you've started down
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that path you can't really change it or
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you'd have two additions with the same
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name a question we get asked quite a lot
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is why is it called Guinness World
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Records when that's a bit luckily we
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have a video for that play the clip what
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links this woman this building and this
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dog well it All Began in 1951 when two
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Hunters had an argument about which
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gamebird was fastest the grous or the
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golden Plover how could you solve such
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an argument if only there was a book
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that contained all the world's amazing
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superlatives from the tallest people to
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the highest mountain to the fastest
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brick layer well in 1955 they made it
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happen and it was sent to pubs across
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the land to settle arguments and to sell
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beer you'll have to guess which one but
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it was stolen a lot so it went on sale
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and we never looked back people wanted
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to see these records in action TV shows
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were made social media accounts created
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events planned records were there for
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everyone to see or perhaps even attempt
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great at gardening there's a record for
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that terrific at table tennis there's a
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record for that and thus every day all
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around the world records are smashed by
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animals buildings and people like Diana
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all certified by Guinness World Records
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so now the question is what record will
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be broken
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next oh and by the way in case you're
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still wondering it's neither it's the
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red breasted
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meanza let's get to the more important
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question can you get a record for being
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the most beautiful person in the whole
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world or if your boyfriend is the most
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handsome person Mark is this true you
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cannot get a record for being the most
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beautiful person I'm afraid now every
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record that we monitor has to be
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objectively quantifiable so it has to be
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something there that is measurable when
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it comes to Beauty unfortunately it
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truly is in the eye of the beholder so
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there's no objectivity there uh so it
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means that we can't monitor it
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well that's it for now if you have any
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other questions leave them in the
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comments Mark is always happy to answer
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your
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questions
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