1Lobster underbelly
The underbelly membrane of lobsters is the toughest material of all-natural hydrogels, including collagen, animal skins, and natural rubber. The membrane is about as strong as industrial rubber composites, such as those used to make car tires, garden hoses, and conveyor belts.
2. The Hercules Moth is the largest moth in the world which has a wingspan up to 36 cm (14 inches). It spends up to two years in its cocoon but only lives two to eight days as it has no mouth and ultimately dies of starvation.
3. The saltiest lake on the planet is Lake Don Juan in Antarctica. Although the temperature can be as low as -50°C, it never freezes because of its high salinity.
4. The longest prison sentence ever requested in the world was 384,912 years of jailtime, against a 22-years-old man who was simply accused of failing to deliver 42,768 letters as a postman.
5. The world's shiniest living thing is a fruit named pollia condensata that grows in the central African forests.
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6Son Doong Cave
The biggest cave in the world is the Son Doong Cave in Vietnam. It’s over 5.5 miles long, has a jungle and river, and could fit a 40-story skyscraper within its walls.
7. The oldest known piece of music is a drinking song called the Epitaph of Seikilos. It was found written on a 4,000-year-old Sumerian clay tablet. Its lyrics include the line “Life exists only for a short while, and time demands its toll.”
8. Mawsynram in India is the wettest place on Earth. It receives an average yearly rainfall of 467 inches. Another village located near Mawsynram currently holds 2 Guinness records, one for most rain in a 12 month period at 1,041.75 inches and the most rain in one month at 366 inches.
9. The longest mathematical proof is 15000 pages long, involved more than 100 mathematicians, and took 30 years just to complete it.
10. The world's narrowest street, Spreuerhofstraße in Germany, ranges from 12 inches at its narrowest to 20 inches at its widest.
11Longest photo
The longest photographic exposure in history went for 3 years straight. That means the shutter was open and capturing light for 3 years straight without the photo becoming overexposed.
12. Sea Otters have the densest hair in the world, with up to 140,000/cm² hairs. Humans have about 300/cm² on their head.
13. Mount Chimborazo of Ecuador is the highest point on Earth, 1.5 miles/2.4 kilometers above Mount Everest. The Earth is an 'oblate spheroid' shape, so the equator bulges out. The mountain sits on top of this bulge so it is the closest point to the moon and outer space.
14. The biggest cashew tree (Cashew of Pirangi) in the world covers an area of about 80,000 square feet and produces over 60,000 fruits each year. The tree gets its size from two genetic issues, which allow branches to grow outwards instead of upwards, taking new roots when touching the ground.
15. The driest polar place on earth is McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica where it hasn't rained for 2 million years. Only anaerobic bacteria are able to survive in this extreme condition. Scientists also consider the area terrestrially closest to Mars on earth.
16Shizo Kanakuri
Shizo Kanakuri has the record for the slowest time in the men's Olympic marathon: 54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 5 hours, 32 minutes, and 20.3 seconds. He disappeared in the middle of the race in 1912 and was given a chance to finish his marathon in 1967. He said, “Along the way, I got married, had 6 children and 10 grandchildren.”
17. The world's hottest vodka named Naga Chilli Vodka at 250,000 Scoville is so hot the manufacturers put a lead seal on the bottle that has to be cut with a wire cutter; and they insist on their website you don't buy it.
18. The longest work of fiction ever written is three million words long and six times longer than War and Peace, as of July 2013. It is a Super Smash Bros. Brawl fanfiction.
19. The lowest sound ever recorded by humans is 57 octaves below middle-C and it is from a black hole in the Perseus Cluster.
20. The Oh-My-God particle was a proton that was found to be traveling at about 99.99999999999999999999951% the speed of light. It is the fastest moving object ever recorded and as it hit the atmosphere it carried the kinetic energy equivalent to a baseball traveling at 50MPH, all in one particle.
21Etruscan Gold Book
Etruscan Gold Book dating to about 660 B.C. is the oldest surviving book in the world. It is made of gold and was found by someone digging trench for a canal only 70 years ago in Bulgaria.
22. The hottest curry on earth is a British curry made in Grantham, Lincolnshire. It is known as 'The Widower' because it is so hot it can make you hallucinate.
23. The world's longest burning light bulb (Centennial bulb) was installed in 1901 and has been glowing for over 110 years straight. It has a carbon filament that is eight times thicker than the ones used in a contemporary bulb.
24. The 'loneliest organism' in the world is a single, lone cycad tree. The once dominant tree during the dinosaur era was discovered in Africa in 1895. Researchers have yet to find a mate to pollinate it.
25. The longest-lived domestic cat was named Creme Puff. She lived from August 3, 1967, to August 6, 2005, a span of 38 years and 3 days. This is well over double the normal life span for domestic cats, which is typically around 12-14 years for males and 13-15 years for females.
