Last Thursday over 200,000 people around the world worked towards breaking records to mark the fifth annual Guinness World Records Day including one friendly group of commuters in the U.K.
Early in the morning at St. Pancras International railway station in London, 112 strangers on their way to work set the record for the “most people hugging for a minute.”
Joe Calderone, an event organizer in New York, noted the importance of world records.
“Everyone’s always interested in world records […] Guinness has always been famous for finding the biggest, the best, the longest, the grandest of things in the world,” Calderone said. “People are naturally intrigued by it — it’s part of pop culture.”
Enjoying a top position on the U.K. bestseller list, the Guinness Book of World Records is an annual reference book publication containing a collection of human achievements and other remarkable tidbits.

—Aaron Pinto