Place Facts About World Records

The MGM Grand Hotel of Las Vegas washes 15,000 pillowcases per day!

Just before the US started bombing Baghdad, nearly $1 billion dollars was stolen from the Central Bank of Iraq and is now the largest bank robbery in history.

Longest officially recognized place name is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu.

The Caspian Sea is also classed as the world's largest lake.

The longest place name in Europe is llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantsiliogogogoch in Wales.

Niger (Africa) has the world's highest fertility rate - 7.1 children per mother.

The longest cave in the world is the 'Mammoth Cave System' in the USA at 560,000 mtrs deep!

The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!

The Niagara Falls moves upstream at an average rate of about 295ft a century!

Jimmy Carter is the first U.S. President to have been born in a hospital.

The 'King Ranch' in Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island.

The Greek National anthem has 158 verses!

One percent of Greenland's population lives in a single apartment building!

The Pacific island of Nauru's economy is almost entirely based on bird droppings.

Sheikh Hamad, billionaire and royal family member in the United Arab Emirates, had a huge carving of his name that's even visible from space etched into a private island.

If China imported just 10% of it's rice needs- the price on the world market would increase by 80%.

Sweden has more telephones per capita than any country on earth.

The world's officially recognised steepest street is Baldwin Street, with a 35% gradient, in Dunedin, New Zealand.

The highest speed ever achieved on a bicycle was 167.04 mph by Fred Rompelberg in 1995.

Iceland publishes more books per capita than any other country in the world. With a population of just 370,000, the country releases about 1,500 new titles annually—roughly one book for every 250 people. One in ten Icelanders is said to publish a book at some point in their lifetime.