Facts in "World Records" Category
#3401 - World Records Fact     7  The Tokyo World Lanes Bowling Center is the largest bowling establishment in the world. It has 252 lanes and one very tired pinsetter. |
| #3402 - World Records Fact 11 The longest Monopoly game in a bathtub was 99 hours long. |
| #3403 - World Records Fact 7 The highest wind velocity ever recorded in the United States was 231 miles per hour, on Mount Washington, New Hampshire, in 1934. |
| #3404 - World Records Fact 9 Howard Kinsey and Mrs. R. Roark, during a game of tennis, batted the ball back and forth 2001 consecutive times. |
| #3405 - World Records Fact -4 The largest web-footed bird is the albatross. |
| #3406 - World Records Fact 2 On July 31, 1994, Simon Sang Sung of Singapore turned a single piece of dough into 8,192 noodles in 59.29 seconds! |
| #3407 - World Records Fact 7 At 12 years old, an African named Ernest Loftus made his first entry in his diary and continued everyday for 91 years. |
| #3408 - World Records Fact 3 Toronto, Ontario was home to the biggest swimming pool in the world in 1925. It held 2000 swimmers, and was 300ft x 75ft. It is still in operation. |
| #3409 - World Records Fact 4 In 1968, Steve McPeak traveled from Chicago to Los Angeles on a unicycle. The trip took him six weeks, but he planned for the long bike journey. He brought an extra tire and a spare heinie. |
| #3410 - World Records Fact 0 The biggest bell is the "Tsar Kolokol" cast in the Kremlin in 1733. It weighs 216 tons, but alas, is cracked and has never been rung. The bell was being stored in a Moscow shed which caught fire. To "save" it, caretakers decided to throw water on the bell. This did not succeed, as the water hit the superheated metal and a giant piece immediately cracked off, destroying the bell forever. |
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