World Records

September 3rd, 2007 by Anne

The longest Monopoly game ever played was 1,680 hours long, that’s 70 straight days!
The highest wind velocity ever recorded in the United States was 231 miles per hour, on Mount Washington, New Hampshire, in 1934.
Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables contains one of the longest sentences in the French language—823 words without a period.
At 12 years old, an African named Ernest Loftus made his first entry in his diary and continued everyday for 91 years.
The biggest hog ever recorded was a creature named Big Boy who weighed in at 1, 904 pounds.
The Bible is the number one shoplifted book in America.
Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
The Stratosphere Hotel and Casino is 1,149 feet tall, making it the tallest building west of the Mississippi River.
The escalator in the CNN Center in Atlanta, Georgia is the longest freestanding escalator in the world, rising 160 feet or approximately eight stories in height.