- Oldest Substantially Complete Surviving Notated Music
Hymn to Nikkal · about 1400 BCE · Ancient Ugarit, Syria
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- World's Largest Nuclear Power Station by Installed Capacity
Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station · 8212 MW · Kashiwazaki and Kariwa, Niigata, Japan
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- Smallest Living Mammal by Body Mass
Etruscan shrew · about 1.8 g
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- Highest Cruising Speed of a Commercial Jet Airliner
Concorde · about 2,160 km/h
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- World's Widest Waterfall
Khone Falls · 10,783 m · Champasak, Laos
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- World's Smallest Sea
Sea of Marmara · about 11,350 km² · Türkiye
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- World's Smallest Bird
Bee hummingbird · about 1.6 g · Cuba
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- World's Deepest Underground Mine
Mponeng gold mine · 3,841 m · Near Carletonville, South Africa
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- World's Longest Oil Pipeline System
Druzhba oil pipeline · about 5,100 km
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- Highest Administrative Capital by Elevation
La Paz · 3,631 m · La Paz, Bolivia
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- Smallest Freshwater Fish by Mature Body Length
Paedocypris progenetica · 7.9 mm
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- Most Saline Natural Water Body
Gaet'ale Pond · 43.3 % · Danakil Depression, Ethiopia
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- World's Tallest Interior Atrium
Burj Al Arab atrium · 180 m · Dubai, UAE
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- Wettest Place by Mean Annual Rainfall
Mawsynram · 11873 mm/year · Meghalaya, India
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- World's Largest Non-Associated Natural Gas Field
North Field · more than 900 trillion standard cubic feet · Offshore northeast Qatar
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- Deepest Unbroken Natural Vertical Shaft
Vrtoglavica · 603 (Guinness figure) m · Mount Kanin, Slovenia
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- Smallest Mammal by Head–Body Length
Kitti's hog-nosed bat · 29 (lower bound) mm
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- Freshwater Lake with the Greatest Underwater Visibility
Rotomairewhenua (Blue Lake) · 81.4 m · Nelson Lakes National Park, New Zealand
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- World's Longest Ocean Trench
Peru–Chile Trench · about 5,900 km · Southeast Pacific off Peru and Chile
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- World's Longest Epic Poem
Mahabharata · about 100,000 verses
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- World's Highest Lightning Flash Density Hotspot
Lake Maracaibo Lightning Hotspot · about 233 flashes/km²/year · Lake Maracaibo Lightning Hotspot
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- Largest Confirmed Terrestrial Impact Structure
Vredefort Dome · about 250–300 (reconstructed range) km
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- World's Oldest Lake
Lake Baikal · about 25 million years
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- World's Longest Strait
Mozambique Channel · about 1,600 km · Indian Ocean between Mozambique and Madagascar
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- Highest Commercially Navigable Lake
Lake Titicaca · about 3,810 m · Lake Titicaca
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- Longest Announced Submarine Telecommunications Cable System
2Africa submarine cable system · about 45,000 km · Intercontinental cable route
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- Largest Known Rare-earth Element Deposit
Bayan Obo rare-earth deposit · Largest known REE deposit (qualitative geological comparison) · Bayan Obo rare-earth deposit
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- Smallest Documented Sexually Mature Vertebrate Individual
Photocorynus spiniceps · 6.2 mm · Philippine Sea (exact sampling coordinates unreported)
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- Location with Most Reported Rainy Days in a Year
Mount Waiʻaleʻale · up to 350 days/year · Mount Waiʻaleʻale
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- Fastest Seasonal Ocean Current
Somali Current · about 12.8 km/h · Western Indian Ocean off Somalia
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- Highest Recorded Inhabited Building by Altitude
Basisi border fort · about 6,000 m · Basisi border fort near Mana Pass, India
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- Longest Hotspot Volcanic and Seamount Chain
Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain · about 6,100 km · North Pacific, Hawaiian Islands to Emperor Seamounts
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