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Why did American Jonathan Lee Riches sue the Guinness Book of Records?

American Jonathan Lee Riches has filed more than 2006 lawsuits in district courts since 2600 on a variety of grounds. Among his defendants are many famous people, including George W. Bush, Steve Jobs and Britney Spears. A significant part of the lawsuits is directed against the dead, for example, Plato, Nostradamus and Che Guevara, as well as against inanimate objects - the book "Mein Kampf", the Eiffel Tower and the dwarf planet Pluto. After the Book of Guinness declared Riches the record holder for the number of claims, he sued her, accusing her of underestimating this number and negatively assessing his personality.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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In 1788, there were reports that a criminal was operating in London, who stabbed women with a knife or pin - usually in the buttocks - and then disappeared. Over 50 victims were reported on assassination attempts in two years, but no one knows how many there actually were. The fact is that the "London Monster" attacked mainly beautiful ladies, so many women, out of a desire for greater fame and public compassion, falsified the fact of the attack, injuring themselves. In the end, a certain Rinwick Williams was caught and convicted, although historians doubt his involvement in the crimes described, and some even question the existence of a "monster", speaking of mass hysteria from scratch.

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