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 ...

The largest ancient castle in the world is Hradcany Castle or Prague Castle in Prague, Czech Republic, built in the 9th century. It is an oblong irregular polygon with an axis of 570 m (1,870 ft) and ...

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The greatest speed achieved by a tortoise is 0.28 m/s (0.92 ft/s) and was achieved by Bertie at Adventure Valley, Brasside, UK on 9 July 2014. Bertie ran the speed over a 5.48m course set at a ...

The heaviest verified weight for any specimen of insect is 71 g (2.5 oz) for a pregnant female Little Barrier giant wētā or wētāpunga (Deinacrida heteracantha), discovered in 2011 by US scientist Mark ...

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 smallest mammal by body length in the world is Kitti's hog-nosed bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai) aka the bumblebee bat. It has a head-body length of only 29–33 millimetres (1.14–1.29 inches), a ...

The tallest waterfall is Kerepakupai Merú, aka Salto Ángel or Angel Falls, located on a branch of the Carrao River, an upper tributary of the Caroní River, in eastern Venezuela, with a total drop of ...

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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