LONDON - Norris McWhirter, co-founder of the Guinness World Records book, has died. He was 78.
The British man suffered a heart attack at his home Monday evening, a family spokesperson announced Tuesday.
In the early 1950s, Sir Hugh Beaver, managing director of the Guinness Brewery commissioned McWhirter and his twin brother Ross -- who had been running a fact-finding agency in London -- to compile a book of "answers" to settle bar bets.
In August 1955, the brewery published the Guinness Book of Superlatives, which later became the Guinness Book of Records. In 2000, the name changed once again to Guinness World Records.
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