- World's Longest Novel by Character Count
In Search of Lost Time · about 9,609,000 characters · France
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- Only Fifteenth-Century Library Still Intact
Malatesta Novello Library · 15th century · Cesena, Italy
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- Best-Selling Physical Single of All Time
White Christmas (Bing Crosby recording) · about 50 million copies
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- Among the Earliest Archaeologically Confirmed Wind Instruments
Geißenklösterle prehistoric flute assemblage · about 40,000 years old · Geißenklösterle Cave, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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- Longest Regularly Performed Opera
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg · about 315 minutes
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- Oldest Scientifically Dated Cave Hand Stencil
Liang Metanduno LMET2 hand stencil · at least 67,800 years old · Liang Metanduno Cave, Muna Island, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia
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- Oldest Scientifically Identified Liquid Wine
Carmona Roman funerary urn wine · about 2,000 years · Carmona, Andalusia, Spain
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- Oldest Reported Pottery Remains
Early Xianrendong pottery sherds · about 20,000 years before present · Xianrendong Cave, Jiangxi, China
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- Best-Selling Manga Magazine by Cumulative Circulation
Weekly Shōnen Jump · more than 7.5 billion copies
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- Oldest Known Complete Leather Shoe
Areni-1 leather shoe · about 3627–3377 BCE · Areni-1 Cave, Vayots Dzor, Armenia
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- Oldest Substantially Complete Surviving Notated Music
Hymn to Nikkal · about 1400 BCE · Ancient Ugarit, Syria
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- World's Longest Epic Poem
Mahabharata · about 100,000 verses
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