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People have found out that if you get specific enough or if you choose something people don't really care about, you can get a Guinness World Record.

For example: there's a guy who had a record invalidated for "fastest time to build the Lego UCS Millenium Falcon (75192)" because he forgot a piece. That's not the point. The point is that he clocked a time of right around 16 hours. Which I found weird. Because that's about what I clocked as well. Now, I wasn't super rigorous. When I started, I started a timer, when I finished for the day, I stopped the timer. At the end, I added all the times together.

And I wasn't trying to build fast. I was just vaguely interested in how long it would take me to assemble a 7500 piece set.

There's a guy on Penn Jillette's podcast, Michael Goudeau. He's a clown. Like, professionally. He has the Guinness World Record for most bites taken out of an apple in a minute while juggling. Dude Perfect holds the Guinness World Record for most ping pong balls stuck on a person's head using shaving cream.

Remember, Guinness doesn't approach people, people approach Guinness. Then there's a whole process about getting the record verified. If it seems like a lot of work for a piece of paper and to be an answer to a trivia question, you'd be right.

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I met someone years ago who was an adjudicator for Guinness. I remember two stories in particular. One was a trip to Venezuela to judge a biggest bowl of soup (chicken IIRC), the other to Italy for a biggest doner kebab! (yes Italy not Greece). She said her biggest concern was that the doner kebab would fall off an underspecced trolley and kill someone, though I imagine that would probably have achieved a record of its own!