It’s a competitive world out there, eh?
A global rat race for the title of the tallest, biggest, fastest – you get it. How about
we make the most unusual comparisons and see where you can find record-holders of all kinds? 1. The world's fastest roller-coaster is in
the Ferrari World theme park in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The thing takes just 5 seconds to reach
its top speed of 150 mph. You complete the 1-mile track in just over a minute and a half!
And then you barf. The slowest roller-coaster in the world is
in Germany - and it's a walkable one! Yep, your speed depends on how fast you can climb
the steps of the 69-ft-tall structure! There’s a loop and everything! 2. The biggest sports stadium in the world
is in North Korea - it can seat 114,000 people, which is the entire population of Springfield,
Illinois. To see the world's smallest stadium, just
look at your typical foosball table! Ok, fine, if we’re going by capacity, there are plenty
that tie with 40,000 max – Russia’s Fisht Olympic Stadium, Rentschler Field in the US,
Japan’s Ōita Bank Dome, to name just a few. 3. Venezuela’s Jeison Orlando Rodríguez
Hernández has the largest shoe size today. He wears an unimaginable U.S. size 26. (The
average for men varies from 9 to 12.) The tiniest adult shoes are custom-made for
Indian actress Jyoti Amge, the world’s smallest woman. She’s just over 2 ft tall, and her
shoe size is about a 2…in the infants’ department! 4. The biggest private house in the world
is a 27-story personal skyscraper that belongs to Indian businessman Mukesh Ambani. The Mumbai
home is 550 ft tall, almost as tall as the Washington Monument.
The world's tiniest house was built by nanorobotics researchers in France. The itsy-bitsy construction
is so small that it wouldn't even fit a mite! And still, the house has 7 windows, a chimney,
and a tiled roof! More than I can say about my apartment… 5. Porcelain Palace, the largest public restroom
in the world, is in Chongqing, China. It's not a single bathroom, but a gigantic 4-story,
32,000-sq-ft complex with 1,000 toilets! Hey if you’re there, cmention my name and you’ll
get a good seat. The most compact loo in the world has to be
Britain’s futuristic-looking Vertebrae Vertical Bathroom. It consists of 7 units (or modules)
that can be rotated with a push. There’s 1 commode, a sink, the toilet’s tank, 2
showers (one a bit higher than the other), and 2 storage drawers. 6. The fastest train in the world is Shanghai
Maglev. It runs along a high-speed magnetic levitation line at a max speed of 268 mph!
The world's slowest express train runs in Switzerland. During the trip, the Glacier
Express averages just 24 mph. 7. The most expensive commercially available
pizza in the world costs $2,700 (or $250 for just 1 slice!) and is sold in an upscale Italian
restaurant in New York City. Black squid ink dough, sprinkled with one of the most expensive
kinds of cheese in the world, caviar, and 24K gold leaves. Would you be willing to eat
that much money??? And if we talk about the US, you can find
the cheapest plain pizza in... Alaska! There, you'll pay about $7.25 for a large one. 8. The biggest dog in the world (if we talk
about its weight) was Cloe, a Mastiff that weighed 365 lb, as much as a full-grown reindeer!
Cloe lived in Tibet back in the ‘80s. The smallest living dog is Milly, a Chihuahua
from Dorado, Puerto Rico. When the tiny thing was born, she didn't even weigh 1 ounce and
could fit in a teaspoon! Now, this itsy-bitsy pooch’s height is just under 4 inches. 9. The longest outdoor escalator and moving
walkway system is in Hong Kong. The Central-Mid-Levels escalator is 2,600 ft long and goes just one
way at a time depending on rush hour. The world's longest individual escalators are
at the – Uuh, let’s just throw the names up on the screen. Thanks! – subway stations
in St. Petersburg, Russia. To get down, you'll have to take a 453-ft-long escalator ride,
which is as tall as the Great Pyramid of Giza! As for the shortest escalator in the world,
it’s in the basement of More's Department Store in Kawasaki, Japan. It has only 5 steps
and is just over 2½ ft long. 10. The loudest city in the world is Mumbai,
India. Its noise level is more than 100 decibels, which is almost as loud as a chainsaw!
The world's quietest place is a room in a Microsoft research lab in Redmond, Washington
state. It’s so eerily quiet that nobody can stay there for more than 45 minutes at
a time. Supposedly, you can hear your own heartbeat! 11. If you want to see the tallest building
in the world, you’ll need to book a trip to Dubai. The Burj Khalifa is a jaw-dropping
2,720 ft tall, which makes it 2 times taller than the Empire State Building.
The "world's littlest skyscraper" is the Newby-McMahon Building in Wichita Falls, Texas. It’s just
40 ft tall (roughly the height of a telephone pole) and got the nickname because it looks
like a thin column. 12. Next to the Burj Khalifa, there’s the
world's tallest hotel, the JM Marriott Marquis Dubai. This impressive construction is 1,165
ft high, which is even taller than the Eiffel Tower!
And the world's smallest is -- oh golly, let’s just put up the name guys – I always stumble
over umlauts. Anyway, it’s in Bavaria. The building is a mere 8 ft wide and has a floorspace
with a square footage not much more than 3 parking spaces. No wonder the hotel can't
accommodate more than 2 guests at a time! 13. The tallest bridge in the world is the
Millau Viaduct in Southern France. Its maximum point soars at 1,125 ft above the ground,
which is -- really high for a bridge. The smallest drawbridge in the world is in
Bermuda. There, Somerset Bridge connects Somerset Island with the mainland. The length of the
bridge is a little over 2½ ft. 14. The world's most expensive private jet
is a Boeing 747-8 VIP. It originally cost $358 million, but customization took the total
price up to $558 million. As for the one with the lowest price tag,
it’d be the small Cirrus Vision Jet that’ll set you back “just” $2 million. 15. The biggest school in the world is in
Lucknow, India. It's the City Montessori School, where you’ll find almost 40,000 students
and well over 2,000 teachers! The title for the smallest goes to an elementary
school in the teeny town of Alpette, Italy. In 2014, it was attended by just one 8-year-old
student. 16. The largest art museum in the world is
the Louvre. You’ll “Lourve” to see it! The Parisian landmark covers a total area
of almost 783,000 sq ft – that’s over 13 football fields. Have you noticed how we
compare two things that have absolutely nothing in common other than size? But wait there’s
more! The world's smallest museum is in West Yorkshire,
England. The Warley Museum used to be a phone booth, hence why this museum can only have
one visitor at a time! It also changes exhibitions every 3 months! 17. The largest plant in the world grows in
The Sequoia National Park in California. It’s a tree nicknamed "General Sherman," and the
giant is 271 ft tall, almost as tall as Lady Liberty. There’s another one. Ha. Together
with its root system, it weighs around 1,800 tons. That’s over 15 blue whales! Oops – there
we go again. Duckweed is the world's smallest flowering
plant. The thing is smaller than a grain of sand and has a tiny root with 1 or 2 leaves.
The plant flowers every year and even produces a microscopic fruit! 18. The Earth's slowest animal is the three-toed
sloth. Its maximum speed is 15 ft per hour! That's why these animals don't usually wander
further than 100 ft a day and are pretty much stuck in one place.
The world's fastest land animal is the cheetah. Its speed can reach 75 mph (that’s 26,400
times faster than the sloth), and the feline can go from 0 to 60 in less than 3 seconds! 19. Venezuelan-born stunt performer Ernesto
Gainza Medina used the smallest parachute in the world for his 2014 jump in Dubai. His
parachute's canopy was just 35 sq ft (that’s about the same as 3 bath towels sewn together)!
The world's most massive canopy FORMATION was created by 100 skydivers who linked up
mid-air above Florida. Doing so, their combined canopies were as big as a Boeing-747. If just
one skydiver had made a mistake, all the participants could’ve crashed into each other, which
wouldn’t have been good, let’s just put it that way… 20. The world's smallest reproduction of a
printed book is "Teeny Ted from Turnip Town." The thing is etched on a microchip the width
of a human hair! It's impossible to read this book without a scanning electron microscope.
The largest published book is "The Little Prince." This record-breaking edition is almost
7 ft tall and over 10 ft wide when open! That’s over 200 times bigger than the book’s typical
copy! And that’s all I got. Good thing too, the
comparisons alone about wore me out. I mean c’mon, the General Sherman and a blue whale?
Hey if we could see General Sherman riding the Blue Whale, well, I’d watch that! Hey, if you learned something new today, then
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