The 'Voyager of the Seas' is the longest cruise ship in the world with a weight of 1, 42, 000 tonnes having a capacity of 3, 840 passengers and over 1,181 crew members. It is as long as three American football grounds, having a theatre, golf course, ice-skating rink, ballroom, gyms, three swimming pools each with sauna, 3 restaurants, lifts and more than 3,000 cabins.
70 % of world's ducks (about 400 million of them) are reared in China where certain types of these web-footed birds are considered a special treat.
The Great Wall of China as well as an airport in Kansai, built on a man-made island in Osaka Bay, (Japan) are the only two man-made structures, visible from the moon.
The country with more females (54%) is Latvia, and the country with more males is United Arab Emirates (UAE) with 66.6 per cent.
The most extensive Tram network in the world is in St. Petersburg (Russia), which has 2402 trams working on 64 lines, covering a combined length of 690 km.
Since 1919, in the textile business, Arvind Mills (India) is Asia's largest producer and the world's leading exporter of Denim clothes.
Albert Einstein, the genius of the 20th century and a Nobel Prize winner, failed in his first attempt to pass the entrance exam for the Federal Polytechnic of Zurich (Switzerland).
The Long Beach peninsula at a stretch of 28 miles of the vast expanse of sandy beach along Washington's south-west coast, Washington (USA), is the longest beach in the world.
The world’s longest and the heaviest train. Convoy, has a formation of 682 wagons laden with steel minerals, linking mines of Yandi and New Man at Port Hedland in eastern Australia. With a length of 7.3 km and weighing over 1,00, 000 tonnes of load, this freight train takes 10 hours to cover 275 km stretch, despite being hauled by 8 locomotives. Better known as 'Mole,' this a slow moving train.
The Lamprechtsoten-vagelshacht cave in Austria is the world’s deepest cave with a depth of 1632 m.
The Gouttre Mirolda, with a depth of 1610 m, and the Roseau-Jean Bernard, with a depth of 1602 m, in France are the other deepest caves in the world.
