1. Japan has the oldest monarchy in the world.
2. The world’s largest monolithic statue of Buddha was installed in India on December 1, 1992.
3. Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space.
4. The first railway line was laid in England.
5. The United States has the briefest constitution in the world.
6. The first test-tube baby of the world is Louise Joy Brown.
7. Voyager-1 was the first man-made object to leave the solar system.
8. Ms. Kim Campbell was the first woman prime minister of Canada.
9. The oldest observatory is Royal Observatory Greenwich in England.
10. The first satellite was launched by the USSR.
11. The first successful expedition to Mount Everest was in 1953.
12. The highest waterfall in the world is Angel Falls.
13. The smallest country is Vatican City State.
14. The first man to climb Mount Everest twice was Tenzing Norgay.
15. The highest navigable lake in the world is Titicaca Lake.
16. After the break-up of the USSR, the largest country in the world (area-wise) is the Russian Federation.
17. India developed the world’s first seedless mango.
18. The first test-tube baby of the world was born in England.
19. · The world’s largest deposit of cosmic dust was discovered in Greenland. The largest island in the world is Greenland.
20. The space shuttle which landed on the moon was Apollo.
21. China is the largest producer of coal as per recent available data.
22. The greatest archipelago on the globe is Indonesia.
23. The world’s highest habitable building is Burj Khalifa in Dubai, UAE.
24. The first satellite launched was Sputnik.
25. The largest man-made canal in the world is the Suez Canal.
26. The largest gulf in the world is the Gulf of Mexico.
27. The highest title in judo is 10th Dan.
28. The longest optical fiber cable in the world is laid between London and New York.
29. The largest automobile manufacturing center in the world is located in Tokyo.
30. The first test-tube baby was born on July 25, 1978.
31. The first heart transplantation was performed by South African surgeon Dr. Christiaan Barnard in Cape Town in 1967.