World Records & Wild Facts

Usain Bolt ran 100m in 9.58 seconds (2009)

Burj Khalifa — 828 meters (2,717 ft)

Mariana Trench — 10,994 meters deep

56.7°C (134°F) in Death Valley (1913)

Methuselah — over 4,855 years old

Singapore to New York — 18h 50min (15,349 km)

Vatican City — 0.44 km²

Peregrine Falcon — 389 km/h in a dive

Honey Fungus in Oregon — 9.6 km²

Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela — ~300 storms/year

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis — 45 letters

Cullinan Diamond — 3,106 carats (uncut)

The Nile — 6,650 km (4,130 mi)

−89.2°C (−128.6°F) at Vostok Station, Antarctica (1983)

Blue Whale — up to 200 tonnes

Mount Everest — 8,849 meters (29,032 ft)

Cheetah — 120 km/h (75 mph)

English — 1.5 billion total speakers

Damascus, Syria — continuously inhabited for ~11,000 years

Antarctica — 14.2 million km² (yes, it's a desert!)

ALFA-X Shinkansen (Japan) — 400 km/h in testing

Antimatter — ~$62.5 trillion per gram

Mauna Loa, Hawaii — 75,000 km³ volume

The stapes (stirrup bone) — 3mm long

9.5 magnitude — Chile, 1960

Star Citizen — over $600 million raised

Hans Langseth — 5.33 meters (17.5 ft)

Charles Osborne — 68 years of hiccups

38 cm (15 inches) wide — Montana, 1887