Man Spends 8 Years Building Eiffel Tower with Matches, Guinness World Records Rejects Record

February 20, 2024

A man spent 8 years of his life building the Eiffel Tower out of matches, but the Guinness World Records commission rejected the record due to an error. The potential record holder used 706 thousand matches and dedicated 4200 hours of his life to the construction, only to find out that he used the wrong type of matches.