The shortest escalator is the moving walkway at Okadaya More's Shopping Mall at Kawasaki-shi, Japan, which has a vertical height of 83.4 cm (2 ft 8 in). It was installed by Hitachi Ltd. The shortest ...

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 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 longest natural beard locks ever (male) belonged to Hans N. Langseth (Norway, b. 1846) and measured 5.33 m (17 ft 6 in) at the time of his burial in Kensett, Iowa in 1927. It was presented to the ...

The largest pyramid by volume has an estimated total volume of c. 4.45 million cubic metres (157.1 million cubic feet) and is the Great Pyramid of Cholula, aka Tlachihualtepetl (“man-made mountain”), ...

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 world’s largest library, measured by catalogue size (number of items), is the US Library of Congress, which is based in Washington DC and was home to 173,731,463 items as of November 2021. Spread ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The earliest film to use the stop-motion technique, to give the illusion of movement to inanimate objects, was Vitagraph's The Humpty Dumpty Circus (USA, 1897). Albert E. Smith (USA), who conceived ...