Guinness World Records a book supplying the answers to this sort of question might prove successful. Beaver's idea became reality when Guinness employee Christopher Chataway recommended University friends Norris and Ross McWhirter, who had been running a fact-finding agency in London. The twin brothers were commissioned to compile what became "The Guinness Book of Records" in August 1954. A thousand copies were printed and given away. After the founding of "The Guinness Book of Records" at 107 Fleet Street, London, the first 198-page edition was bound on 27 August 1955 and went to the top of the British best seller lists by Christmas.
The Twelve Brothers being placed in a barrel filled with boiling oil and poisonous snakes), all live happily together. The Twelve Brothers "The Twelve Brothers" () is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 9. Andrew Lang included it in "The Red Fairy Book". It is Aarne-Thompson type 451, the brothers who were turned into birds. Other variants of the Aarne-Thompson type include "The Six Swans", "The Twelve Wild Ducks", "Udea and her Seven Brothers", "The Wild Swans", "The Seven Ravens", and "The Magic Swan Geese". A king wants to kill his twelve sons, so that if his thirteenth