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Every year, millions of readers count on The World Almanac and Book of Facts to deliver accurate, up-to-date and comprehensive information on thousands of topics. Now those same factoid fanatics will be able to dig into the all-new, fully illustrated World Almanac Book of Records: Firsts, Feats, Facts Phenomena. This first edition of The World Almanac Book of Records delivers more records, in more pages, than any other record book. Its sure to become the new authoritative source for record research and record fun. Spanning more than 500 illustrated pages and 4,000 records, The World Almanac Book of Records is simply the worlds most comprehensive record book, with hundreds more pages and thousands more records than the competitors. The first edition is sure to be a collectors item, perhaps like the first edition of The World Almanac from 1868. The World Almanac Book of Records will entertain and inform any reader who has a curiosity for the fastest, the oldest, the biggest, the first, and the most extraordinary. Students will use this authoritative guide for school and pore over it with friends. Grown-ups will learn things they never knew, laugh at things theyd forgotten, check for records while they watch sports on TV and find plenty of new tidbits for party talk. Anyone will be happy to receive The World Almanac Book of Records as a gift. Factoids, tables, timelines, stories; the natural, man-made and otherworldly; the essential, obscure and weird; The World Almanac Book of Records makes information easy to look up and easy to use. Records are organized by subject and painstakingly indexed, so readers can quickly find all the fascinating records for their favorite topics. Want to know about the: Nation with the most immigrants to the U.S.? Director with most Academy Awards? First toothpick machine? Pitcher with four saves in a World Series? Waves that can be surfed for half an hour? The stories of these and more than 3,995 other records are in The World Almanac Book of Records. (For the record, the answers are Germany, John Ford, Benjamin Sturtevants 1863 invention, Yankee John Wetteland in 1996 and....well youll just have wait for The World Almanac Book of Records!)