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 ...

The fattiest organ in the human body is the brain, which is typically composed of 60% fat. By weight, water accounts for c. 77% of the brain, with lipids (fats) accounting for 10–12%. The brain is ...

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From the most Big Macs eaten to the largest scoop of ice cream, discover the top food-fuelled records guaranteed to make your mouth water.

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 ...

Guinness World Records has a strict list of record policies that must be adhered to for all our record breaking achievements. We assess all new record titles against our values of integrity, respect, ...

Before there were motion pictures, as we think of them, there was motion photography, first achieved when Eadweard Muybridge used multiple cameras in 1878 to make “The Horse in Motion.” The project ...

The Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge, on the Jinghu High-Speed Railway (aka Beijing–Shanghai High-Speed Railway) is 164 km (102 miles) long. This new line (open from June 2011) also crosses the 114-km (70 ...

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.

With its summit at 8,848.86 m (29,031 ft 8 in) above sea level, Everest (aka Sagarmāthā or Chomolungma) is the highest mountain on Earth. In 2020, a joint initiative by Chinese and Nepalese land ...

The world's largest parking lot can hold 20,000 vehicles and is situated at the world's largest shopping and entertainment centre, West Edmonton Mall, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. There are overflow ...

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 ...