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 ...

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 Old Course at St Andrews Links in Fife, Scotland, UK, is the oldest golf course in the world. Archbishop Hamilton's Charter in 1552 is the earliest documentary evidence that allowed the people of ...

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 ...

The largest film studio complex in the world is Ramoji Film City, Hyderabad, India, which opened in 1996 and measures 674 ha (1,666 acres). Comprising of 47 sound stages, it has permanent sets ranging ...

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 ...

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 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 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”), ...

The earliest surviving examples of autographs are those made by scribes on cuneiform clay tablets from Tell Abu Salãbikh, Iraq, dated to the early Dynastic III A period c. 2600 BC. A scribe named ...

The famous YouTuber and writer just claimed a Guinness World Records title for the “most tip in sheets signed by an author in ...

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