- Largest Pumped-Storage Hydroelectric Plant by Installed Capacity
2024-12-31
Fengning Pumped Storage Power Station · 3600 MW · Fengning Manchu Autonomous County, Chengde, Hebei, China
TechnologyCurrent
- World's Least Populous Sovereign State
2024-12-31
Vatican City State · 882 people · Vatican City State
Human SocietyCurrent
- Fastest Speed Reached by a Human-Made Object
2024-12-24
Parker Solar Probe · about 430,000 mph
SpaceCurrent
- Longest Single Spacewalk
2024-12-17
17 December 2024 Tiangong EVA · 546 minutes
SpaceCurrent
- Largest Single Art Canvas by Area
2024-11-24
Impossibility is a Myth · 12381.02 m²
Culture & EntertainmentCurrent
- Largest Theatre Stage by Area
2024-11-08
Great Qin Theatre stage · 4,393.403 m² · Great Qin Theatre, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
Culture & EntertainmentCurrent
- World's Fastest Supercomputer
2024-11-01
El Capitan supercomputer · 1.742 EFLOPS (exaflops) · Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, USA
TechnologyHistorical
- Fastest Women's Marathon
2024-10-13
Ruth Chepngetich · 2:09:56 · Chicago, Illinois, United States
SportsCurrent
- Longest Cumulative Time Spent in Space by an Astronaut
2024-09-23
Oleg Kononenko · 1,111 days
SpaceCurrent
- Highest Steady Magnetic Field Produced by a Resistive Magnet
2024-09-22
Hefei 42.02-tesla resistive magnet · 42.02 tesla · High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Hefei, Anhui, China
TechnologyCurrent
- Heaviest Single Tree-Borne Fruit
2024-08-22
Artocarpus heterophyllus · 54.43 kg · Homestead, Florida, USA
NatureCurrent
- Farthest Human-Made Object from Earth
2024-08-21
Voyager 1 · 164.7 AU
SpaceCurrent
- Fastest Women's 400m Hurdles
2024-08-08
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone · 50.37 s · Paris
SportsCurrent
- Fastest Mixed 4x400m Relay
2024-08-02
United States · 3:07.41 s · Paris
SportsCurrent
- Men's 100 m Freestyle World Record (Long Course)
2024-07-31
Pan Zhanle · 46.40 s · Paris, France
SportsCurrent
- Highest Women's High Jump
2024-07-07
Yaroslava Mahuchikh · 2.10 m · Paris
SportsCurrent
- Country Hosting the Largest International Migrant Stock
2024-07-01
United States · about 52.375 million people · United States
Human SocietyCurrent
- First Sample Return from the Lunar Far Side
2024-06-25
Chang'e 6 spacecraft · First achievement · South Pole–Aitken basin, Moon; return to Siziwang Banner, China
SpaceCurrent
- Fastest Women's 10,000 Metres
2024-05-25
Beatrice Chebet · 1734.14 s · Hayward Field, Eugene, Oregon, United States
SportsCurrent
- World's Highest Astronomical Observatory
2024-04-30
University of Tokyo Atacama Observatory · 5640 m · University of Tokyo Atacama Observatory site
TechnologyCurrent
- Largest Polymer 3D Printer by Nominal Build Envelope
2024-04-23
Factory of the Future 1.0 3D printer · 55,296 cubic feet · University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA
TechnologyCurrent
- Longest Men's Discus Throw
2024-04-14
Mykolas Alekna · 74.35 m · Ramona, Oklahoma, United States
SportsHistorical
- First Commercial High-NA EUV Lithography Installation
2024-04-01
Intel's first commercial High-NA EUV system · First achievement · Intel Fab D1X, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA
TechnologyCurrent
- World's Longest Main Span of an Arch Bridge
2024-02-01
Tian'e Longtan Bridge · 600 m · Tian'e County, Hechi City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
ArchitectureCurrent
- National General Election with the Largest Registered Electorate
2024-01-01
India · 979,751,847 registered electors · India
Human SocietyCurrent
- World's Largest Library Collection
2024-01-01
Library of Congress · 181,130,554 items · Washington, D.C., United States
Human SocietyCurrent
- World's Most Populous Country
2024-01-01
India · about 1.444 billion people · India
Human SocietyCurrent
- Oldest Verified Living Individual Tree
2024-01-01
Unnamed White Mountains bristlecone pine · about 5,074 years · White Mountains, California, USA (exact location confidential)
NatureCurrent
- Most Densely Populated Sovereign State
2024-01-01
Monaco · about 18537 people/km² · Monaco
Human SocietyCurrent
- Country with the Most Living Languages
2024-01-01
Papua New Guinea · 840 languages · Papua New Guinea
Human SocietyCurrent
- World's Largest Copper Mine by Mineral Resources
2024-01-01
Escondida copper mine · about 26 billion tonnes of ore · Antofagasta Region, Chile
EconomyCurrent