David Beckham (UK) is the world's richest soccer player, earning around US $ 38 million through his salary, commercial endorsements and image rights. Jose Mourinho is the highest paid football coach in the world earning around US $ 10 million per annum.
The Indian epic Mahabharata contains about three million words.
The American swimmer, Michael Phelps, won 8 gold medals in the Beijing Olympics 2008 - the most gold medals in one game. He had also won 6 gold and 2 bronzes at the Athens Olympics in 2004.
Titanic (1997) the blockbuster movie is the only film since Ben-Hur (1959), to have won 11 Oscars.
The NBA (basketball) players of USA who had won Gold in Beijing Olympics 2008 are in the Top 10 list of highest paid sports-persons. The list includes Kobe Bryant (L.A. Lakers), Dwayne Wade (Miami Heats) Lebron James (Cleveland Caveliers) and Jason Kidd (Mavericks).
Hicham El Guerrouj made history for Morocco by emulating the great Paavo Nurmi's (Finland) feat, by sweeping a double gold medal in the middle distance races, 1500 m and 5000 m, in Athens Olympics, 2004.
The fastest ball ever bowled by any bowler is by Shoaib Akhtar (Pakistan) at 161.3 KMPH. against England on February 2003, in ODI World Cup cricket match in South Africa.
Kelly Holmes (34), the ace runner from UK, won the women's 800 m and 1500 m gold medals in Athens Olympics, 2004. She is being hailed as the greatest females- athlete in Britain's history.
The Tate Modern, London (UK), is the world's favourite modern art museum and the most visited modern art gallery with 5.25 million visitors every year, on an average.
The Arabic legislation encyclopaedia, compiled by Mohamed Abubaker-Bin-Younis (Libya) is the largest encyclopaedia in current use having 1, 64, 000 pages in 200 volumes and weighing 420 kg. The general index is contained in another 6 volumes.
