The Guinness World Records’ 2017 edition is being released on 8 th September (a day after the iPhone 7 goes on sale, no connection though). But they’ve already declared some of the record holders. 22 year old singing sensation Justin Beiber walks away with 8 titles in the record book, some of them being Most streamed track on Spotify in one week (The song “What Do You Mean?”), Most viewed music channel on YouTube (individual) , Most followers on twitter (male) (85 million and counting), etc. Also, in the week gone by, Majuli, Assam (in the Brahmaputra river) was recognized as the largest river island . It covers an area of around 880 km² (340 miles²). So this week’s GK Nugget will look at the Guinness World Records: First published in 1955 , the Guinness Book of Records was the brainchild of Sir Hugh Beaver , Managing Director of the Guinness Brewery , UK. (It was later renamed the Guinness Book of World Records and finally, the Guinness World Records). ...