The narrowest street is in Reutlingen, Germany. It is called Spreuerhofstrasse and is measures 31 cm (1 ft 0.2 in) at its narrowest point and 50 cm (1 ft 7.68 in) at its widest point. The street was ...

Located in the tallest of the six pyramids that house the Nima Sand Museum, Japan, is a 5.2-m-tall (17-ft 0.72-in) 560-kg (1,234.6-lb) hourglass with a diameter of 1 m (3 ft 3.37 in). It is filled ...

The largest rocking chair measures 17.09 m (56 ft 1 in) tall and 9.99 m (32 ft 10 in) wide and was created by Jim Bolin (USA) and verified in Casey, Illinois, USA, on 20 October 2015. The rocking ...

The world's largest residential palace is the Istana Nurul Iman, near Bandar Seri Begawan, capital of Brunei. Official home of the 29th Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, and also the seat of the ...

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A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust contains an estimated 9,609,000 characters (each letter counts as one character. Spaces are also counted, as one character each). The title translates to ...

From the longest fingernails to the tallest man, check out the incredible people whose unique talents and physical attributes have earned them a Guinness World Records title.

The largest church in the world is the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace (Notre Dame de la Paix) at Yamoussoukro, the legal and administrative capital of Ivory Coast/Côte d'Ivoire, completed in 1989 at a ...

The world's smallest church is that of Santa Isabel de Hungría, in Colomares, a monument to Christopher Columbus at Benalmádena, Málaga, Spain. It is irregular in shape and has a total floor area of 1 ...

Built originally as a private road for King Fahd (SAU), the stretch of Highway 10 connecting Highway 75 in the Haradh area to Highway 95 in the west of Saudi Arabia is 240 km (149 mi) long. It cuts ...

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Steven Spielberg's (USA) Jaws (USA, 1975) is considered the first summer blockbuster. Not only did people queue up around the block to see the movie, during its run in theatres it became the first ...