The largest insect egg belongs to the Malaysian jungle nymph, a sticklike insect, and measures about 1.3 centimeters long larger than a peanut! (Some insects, mainly mantises and cockroaches, lay egg cases that are larger, but they contain about 200 individual eggs.)
The largest item on any menu in the world is probably the roast camel, sometimes served at Bedouin wedding feasts. The camel is stuffed with a sheep's carcass, which is stuffed with chickens, which are stuffed with fish, which are stuffed with eggs.
The largest living organism ever found is a honey mushroom, Armillaria ostoyae. It covers 3.4 square miles of land in the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon, and it's still growing.
The largest movie theater in the world, Radio City Music Hall in New York City, opened in December, 1932. It originally had 5,945 seats.
The largest painting in the world is The Battle of Gettysburg, painted in 1883 by Paul Philippoteaux and sixteen of his assistants. The painting took two and a half years to create and is 410 feet long, 70 feet high, and weighs 11,792 pounds.
The largest pig on record was a Poland-China hog named Big Bill, who weighed 2,552 lbs.
The largest sculpture ever made are the faces of Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson and Roosevelt on Mt. Rushmore.
The largest ship in the world is the French oil tanker that is nearly 415 mts. long, almost as long as Sydney harbour bridge.
The largest single flower is the Rafflesia or "corpse flower". They are generally 3 feet in diameter with the record being 42 inches.
The largest single-ticket jackpot winner in history is Jack Whittaker Jr. of West Virginia. In December 2002 he had the sole winning ticket for a $314.9 million jackpot in the U.S. Powerball lottery.
The largest stained-glass window in the world is at Kennedy International Airport in New York City. It can be seen on the American Airlines terminal building and measures 300 feet long by 23 feet high
The largest stained-glass window in the world is at Kennedy International Airport in New York City. It can be found in the American Airlines terminal building and measures 300 feet long by 23 feet high.
The largest US city in area is Juneau, Alaska, which covers 3,108 square miles. Los Angeles covers only 458.2 square miles.
The last member of the famous Bonaparte family, Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, died in 1945, of injuries sustained from tripping over his dog's leash.
The last thing to happen is the ultimate. The next-to-last is the penultimate, and the second-to-last is the antepenultimate.
The lead in a normal pencil would draw a line of 35 miles.
The leading cause of deaths for children between the ages of 1 and 4 are motor vehicle crashes.
The Leaning Tower of Pisa was built on the site of a river estuary. The land under the town has several layers of silt and soft clay. The 15,000-ton tower tilts to the south because the subsoil is too unstable.
The left lung is smaller than the right lung to make room for the heart.
The left side of your brain controls the right side of your body and vice versa.
The left testicle usually hangs lower than the right for right-handed men. The opposite is true for lefties.
The lemur of Madagascar is one of very few of the human species' ancestors that has survived unchanged down the long corridors of evolution. Having developed after the first primates, it is classified as a prosimian, meaning "before monkey," and is one of the ancestors common to both monkeys and men.
The letter "I" is used exactly 109 times in Act IV of Shakespeare's Macbeth.
The letter "W" is the only letter in the alphabet that doesn't have just one syllable – it has three.
The letter J does not appear ANYWHERE in the periodic table of elements.
The letter most in use in the English language is "E" and the letter "Q" is least used.
The letters in the abbreviation e.g. stand for exempli gratia – a Latin term meaning "for example."
The Library of Congress has approx. 327 miles of bookshelves.
The lie detector was invented by John Augustus Larson in 1921.
The light from your computer screen streams at you at almost 186,000 miles per second.
The lights of Las Vegas at night can be seen from outer space.
The linen bandages that were used to wrap Egyptian mummies averaged 1,000 yards in length.
The liquid inside coconuts can be used as blood plasma substitutes!
The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive, so much so that they will set off an alarm at a nuclear reactor.
The little lump of flesh just forward of your ear canal, right next to your temple, is called a tragus.
The little overhang of bone and feathers over an eagle's eye is there to protect the sensitive eyeball from the mountain and desert sun. It's not meant to make the bird look fierce.
The Lone Ranger's "real" name is John Reid.
The longest movie ever screened was a 1970 British film that lasted 48 hours, 0 minutes. Believe it or not, its name is The Longest and Most Meaningless Movie in the World.
The longest muscle in the human body is the sartorius. This narrow muscle of the thigh passes obliquely across the front of the thigh and helps rotate the leg to the position assumed in sitting cross-legged. Its name is a derivation of the adjective "sartorial," a reference to what was the traditional cross-legged position of tailors (or "sartors") at work.
The longest one syllable word in he English language is "screeched".
The longest railway in the world is the Trans-Siberian Railway or Trans-Siberian Railroad, built 1891-1916, a network of railways connecting European Russia with Russian Far East provinces. It is 9, 288.2 kilometres (5,787 miles) long and spans 8 time zones.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
The longest recorded gloved boxing match took place in 1893. Andy Bowen and Jack Burke fought for more than 7 hours. After 110 rounds, the fight was declared a draw because both Bowen and Burke were too exhausted to continue.
The longest reign in the history of the world was that of Pepi II of the sixth Egyptian dynasty. He ruled from the age of 6 until his death at age 94.
The longest reigning monarch in history was Pepi II, who ruled Egypt for 90 years; 2566 to 2476 BC. The second longest was France's Louis XIV, who ruled for 72 years, 1643 to 1715.
The longest river in the world, the Nile, is 4,145 miles long.
The longest war between two nations in history, The Hundred Years War between England and France, really lasted for 115 years(1338-1453).
The longest word in the dictionary with only one vowel is "STRENGTHS."
The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
The longest word that can be typed on the top row of letters on a "Qwerty" keyboard is TYPEWRITER.
The low frequency call of the humpback whale is the loudest noise made by a living creature. The call of the humpback whale is louder than Concorde and can be heard from 500 miles away.
The lowest point that a person can reach on Earth, outside of riding a submarine or going down a mine shaft, is where the Jordan River enters the Dead Sea. It's 1,290 feet below sea level.
The lowest temperature ever recorded in the world was 129 degrees below 0 at Vostok, Antarctica, on July 21, 1983.
The lowest valued note in the world is the Hong Kong 1 cent note of which
The magician's words "hocus-pocus" were taken from the name of a mythological sorcerer, Ochus Bochus, who appeared in Norse folktales and legends.
The magnetic North Pole shifts by about 7 meters a day.
The magnolia tree is named after Pierre Magnol, a French scientist.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, the engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.
The male penguin incubates the single egg laid by his mate. During the two month period he does not eat, and will lose up to 40% of his body weight.
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off.
The male scorpion fly gets other males to bring him food by imitating a female fly.
The male seahorse carries the eggs until they hatch instead of the female.
The man who commissioned the Mona Lisa refused it.
The melting point of cocoa butter is just below the human body temperature -which is why it literally melts in your mouth.
The Mesopotamians were the first people to keep records of lunar eclipses. The earliest records show that they started sometime around 2200 B.C.
The metal instrument used in shoe stores to measure feet is called the Brannock device.
The metric system was to blame for the loss of the Mars Climate orbiter.
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