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 ...

Cath Bowie, based in Aberdeen in the UK, said she was "instantly intrigued" when she saw her grandson playing Fortnite. That was back in 2017, when Epic Games' famous multiplayer game first launched ...

Florida paramedic Autumn Kelso (USA) just claimed the record for the shortest female firefighter in the world!

The highest point of Neuschwanstein Castle overlooking the village of Hohenschwangau in Bavaria, Germany, rises 213 feet (65 metres) above ground. The Romanesque Revival castle was built upon the ...

The world's tallest obelisk is the Washington Monument in Washington DC, USA. It stands 169 m (555 ft) tall and was completed in 1884 to honour George Washington, the first president of the United ...

With tattoos on top of tattoos, Ephemeral Remy’s body is a work of art. The Canadian – real name Jeremy Schofield – has had at least 90% of his skin covered in ink since 2005. He’s been covered and re ...

Soaring high in her latest daredevil stunt, 97-year-old Betty Bromage (UK) has not only broken her own record for oldest wing walker (female), she also became the oldest person to perform 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, ...

The loudest insect is the shrill thorntree cicada (Brevisana brevis), native to wooded areas of sub-Saharan Africa including Zambia, South Africa and Malawi, which produces a calling song with a mean ...

The world’s first skyscraper was the Home Insurance Building in Chicago, erected in 1884-1885. The so-called “Father of the Skyscraper” towered all of 10 stories with its peak at 138 feet, miniature ...

The most expensive sandwich commercially available is the "Quintessential Grilled Cheese" which sells for US $214 (£132.64) at Serendipity 3 in New York, New York, USA, as of 29 October 2014. The ...

The densest planet in the Solar System is Earth, which has an average density of 5,513 kg/m³ (344 lb/cu ft). The next most dense planet in Mercury, at 5,240 kg/m³ (327 lb/cu ft). The density of the ...