| A hamlet is a village without a church and a town is not a city until it has a cathedral. |
| The quickest ascent of Everest, in 10 hours, 56 minutes, was achieved by Sherpa Lhakpa Gelu |
| The quickest ascent of Everest, in 10 hours, 56 minutes, was achieved by Sherpa Lhakpa Gelu |
| Pizza Hut is the world's largest pizza restaurant serving close to 1.7 million pizzas a day |
| It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there have only been 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world |
| The longest fence in the world is in Australia and it runs for over 3,436 miles (5,530 km) |
| Karmit Tsubera and Dror Orpaz kissed for a record 30 hrs and 45 min to win a kissing contest in Israel |
| Guinness Book of World Records holds the record for being the book most stolen from Public Libraries. |
| Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die |
| The fewest aeroplane passengers killed in one year was 1 in 1993 and the most was 526 in 1985 |