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 world’s oldest man João Marinho Neto (Brazil) is celebrating his 114 th birthday today! And in a beautiful display of friendship from across the world, he and the world’s second oldest man, ...

The Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest, Romania is believed to be the heaviest building in the world. It is constructed from 700,000 tonnes (1.5 billion lb) of steel and bronze combined with 1 ...

The world's first full-length feature film was The Story of the Kelly Gang, made in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 1906. Produced on a budget of £450 (then US$2185.65), this biopic of the notorious ...

The tallest tree currently living is a specimen of Sequoia sempervirens in Redwood National Park in California, USA. Nicknamed Hyperion, the coast redwood was discovered by Chris Atkins and Michael ...

The oldest known library was assembled by Ashurbanipal, King of the Assyrians, between 668 and 631 BCE. It was located in his royal palace in Nineveh (in present-day northern Iraq, near Mosul), and ...

The world's tallest outdoor elevator is the 326-m (1,070-ft) glass-sided Bailong ("Hundred Dragons") Elevator, the upper 171.4 m of which is above ground and built on the side of a quartzite cliff in ...

With a price tag of 10 million Chinese yuan or £945,000 ($1,513,417), an 11-month-old red Tibetan mastiff became the world's costliest canine when sold by breeder Lu Liang to a Chinese ...

The oldest parrot ever is Cookie, a Major Mitchell’s cockatoo (Cacatua leadbeateri) who was at least 82 years and 88 days old when he passed away on 27 August 2016. Cookie’s exact age was unknown when ...

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 ...

The world's largest wild cat is the Siberian or Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), native to eastern Russia, north-east China and North Korea. Males, which are bigger than females, typically have a ...

In March 2018, a group of Russian speleologists – led by Pavel Demidov and Ilya Turbanov – descended to the bottom of the Veryovkina Cave in the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, north-west Georgia, ...