What is the Most Expensive Pie in the World?

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A CHEF has baked the world's most expensive pie costing more than £1,000 a slice, it was revealed today. The traditional steak and mushroom ingredients have been replaced by a £500 beef fillet, Chinese mushrooms worth more than £2,000 and truffles. The recipe includes two bottles of 1982 Chateau Mouton Rothschild red wine costing more than £4,000 and the pie comes topped with gold leaf. The pie cuts into eight slices and the total cost is £8,195. It is served with Louis Roederer Cristal Rose champagne - costing £345 a bottle - instead of the traditional pint of real ale.

What is the Longest Pearl Necklace in the World?

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The longest single strand pearl necklace measured 150 m (492 ft 1 in) and was created and exhibited in store De Wan in Milan. Roberto Moschetto De Wan (Italy) used over 12,000 pearls to complete the necklace as part of the inauguration of the Fashion Week in Milan, Italy, on February 17, 2006.

What is the Most Expensive Work of Art in the World?

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A masterpiece by Pablo Picasso, painted in 1905 when he was just 24 years old, became the most expensive piece of art ever sold when it went under the hammer at Sotheby's in New York for $104m. The painting, Garcon a la Pipe (Boy with a Pipe) is one of the most important early works by the artist ever to appear on the market.

What is the Most Expensive Pen in the World?

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Swiss company Caran d'Ache made 'La Modernista Diamonds' a pen that was sold in Harrods, London, for $265,000. Created in memory of architect Antonio Gaudi, the rhodium-coated solid silver pen has an 18-karat gold pen point and is pave-set with 5,072 diamonds and 96 half-cut rubies.

What is the Most Valuable Model Car in the World?

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A rare green, 1937 Dinky Bentalls store delivery truck with yellow upper side panels and a white roof was sold for £12,650 (US$20,148) at Christie’s, London, UK, on October 14, 1994. This particular version of the Bentalls Department Store promotional delivery van is particularly collectable because there are only two others known to exist.

What is the Most Expensive Jeans in the World?

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They wanted to be "the Mercedes-Benz, the Maybach of the denim industry". And APO jeans have done just that with a pair costing as much as $ 4,000 or more. They offer mens and ladies jeans with Silver Buttons and Rivets at $1,000, 14k White or Yellow Gold Button and Rivets at $1,500, Platinum Button and Rivets at $3,250, and the Diamond Button and Rivets start at $4,000.

What is the Smallest Bat in the World?

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The smallest bat in the world is the Philippine bamboo bat (vespertilionid), which belongs to the vespertilionid family. This bat measures about four centimeters (1 1/2 inches) in length and has a wingspan of 15 cm. Approximately, it weighs 1.5 grams (1/20 ounce). The Philippines has at least 56 species of bats. It is home to the smallest among the 1,000 known bat species in the world.

What is the Most Expensive Monopoly Set in the World?

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Sidney Mobell, a jeweler from San Francisco put together a Monopoly set in 1988. The houses and hotels were solid gold, the pips in the dice were diamonds. The board was made of sapphires, rubies and gold. The value of this expensive Monopoly set: A mere $2,000,000.00.

What is the Largest Known Spider in the World?

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The world's largest known spider is a male goliath bird-eating spider (Theraphosa blondi) collected by members of the Pablo San Martin Expedition at Rio Cavro, Venezuela in April 1965. It had a record leg-span of 28 cm (11 in) – sufficient to cover a dinner plate. This species is found in the coastal rainforests of Surinam, Guyana and French Guiana, but isolated specimens have also been reported from Venezuela and Brazil.

What is the Most Expensive Perfume in the World?

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At $83,170.00, it is the world's most expensive perfume. The fragrance, created by renowned British perfumer Arthur Burnham, is held in a 4 in bottle made with platinum, 24 carat gold, rubies and diamonds. Encasing the bottle is a very special box constructed by Rolls-Royce coach builders, locked with a gold and jewel-studded key. Inspired by the Rolls-Royce Phantom Six, it is called Parfum VI. Only 173 are being made.

What is the Smallest Monkey in the World?

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The Philippine tarsier (Tarsius syrichta) is the smallest monkey in the world. Considered as the world's smallest primate, it measures only about twelve centimeters in length. Its two big eyes cannot move and do not have a tapetum - the upper protective tissue. Because of this, the Philippine tarsier has learned to turn its head 180 degrees. It has also two grooming claws on each foot and an almost bald tail extending about nine inches. Found in the islands of Samar, Leyte, Bohol and Mindanao, the Philippine tarsier got its name from its elongated tarsus bone. An ordinary tarsier weighs between 117 and 134 grams. It is able to move between trees by leaping as far as three meters. It also has keen senses of hearing and sight.

What is the Most Expensive Racehorse in the World?

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Amazingly the record for the most expensive racehorse dates back to 1985 when Robert Sangster and some partners paid $13.1 million USD for Seattle Dancer. Seattle Dancer was sired by Nijinsky II and is half brother to Seattle Slew, a Triple Crown winner. One of the reasons the record for the most expensive racehorse hasn't been broken since might be the fact that Seattle Dancer only won twice out of the five races he ran, returning a measly $150,000.00 to the owners in prize money. When it was time to go where all great horses go after their racing career, the stud farm, Seattle Dancer was once again a big disappointment, unable to generate any further revenue.

What is the Most Expensive Baseball Card in the World?

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The most expensive baseball card ever is a rare Honus Wagner card from the 1900s. Wagner was a Major League Baseball player for the Pittsburgh Pirates who was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936. His baseball card appeared in the American Tobacco Company's T206 set, but only in limited quantities. Some say Wagner forced the card to be removed from the set because he refused to promote the tobacco company. Today, the card is highly prized by baseball-card collectors. Several years ago, one sold online for $1.25 million!

What is the Most Expensive Ring in the World?

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When the Donald does something, he does it right. According to Donald Trump, the world's most expensive ring is the engagement ring he presented to Slovenian model Melania Knauss and is reportedly worth $2 million, had he not had it engraved would be valued at even more. The ring, a 12 karat flawless emerald diamond set in platinum came from the best diamond dealer in New York State, the House of Graff.

What is the Smallest Fountain Pen in the World?

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Researchers have created the world's smallest fountain pen with a tip so tiny it can draw lines a hundred times thinner than a red blood cell. Called the "nanonfountain probe," it can paint lines as thin as 40 nanometers and has its own reservoir to hold various types of inks, including pigments for painting patterns and organic materials for designing sensors. The pen was developed by researchers at the National Science Foundation Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for Integrated Nanopatterning and Detection Technologies. The new pen can be attached to the atomic-force microscope, which allows scientists to see nanoscale environments as well as draw on them. Possible uses for such a tiny pen, or an array of several of them, include crafting miniscule protein arrays and complex semiconductors.

What is the Most Expensive Camera in the World?

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Christie's set a new world record price for a camera in their January 2001 sale when a prototype Phantom photographic outfit sold for £146,750 with commission, breaking the previous record, also held by Christie's at £55,750 set in 1995. Words & picture Tim Goldsmith, Phantom image Christie's. The unique Phantom camera and its associated processing accessories were designed by former MP Noel Pemberton Billing in 1946, but the camera never entered production.

What is the Longest Roller Coaster in the World?

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The Steel Dragon, which opened on August 1, 2000, at Nagashima Spaland in Japan, is an out-and-back roller coaster with a total track length of 2,479 m (8,133 ft). Designed by Morgan Manufacturing of La Selva Beach, California, USA, the ride begins with a fall from a 95-m (311-ft 8-in) lift followed by two further hills and dips. At the top of the third hill there is a maze-like spiral section. The return run has a further eight bumps and seven dips.

What is the Smallest Book in the World?

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Mark Palkovic, head librarian for the College-Conservatory of Music Library, owns a prized possession that's bringing him world fame. Guinness World Records has confirmed that Palkovic is the owner of the smallest book in the world. Palkovic's book, Chekhov's Chameleon, measures just .9 by .9 millimeters, not much larger than a grain of salt. Amazingly, this miniscule book has 30 pages and three color illustrations. The print cannot be read by the naked eye, but Palkovic keeps another larger copy of the book, still measuring just a tiny 2 by 1.8 centimeters, nearby.

What is the Largest Drum Set in the World?

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Drummer Michael McNeil of Troy, Missouri, owned a drum set that he called "Everything Plus The Kitchen Sink". This amazing drum kit consisted of 105 playable pieces, including a kitchen sink! The sink was the only "gimmick" item on the entire set; everything else was authentic and playable and included: 7 bass drums, 19 tom toms, 3 snare drums, 8 octabans, 2 timbales, 4 electronic drums, 25 cymbals, 16 bells and blocks, 20 various percussion items and 1 kitchen sink, all mounted on 61 pieces of hardware! Michael had been amassing the set for nearly 10 years and purchased everything from Drum Headquarters.

What is the Most Expensive Teddy Bear in the World?

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The Teddy Bear got was named after Theodore Roosevelt and has been a popular toy ever since. To celebrate the 125th anniversary of the Teddy Bear a German company created a limited edition of 125 bears of which the mouth is made of solid gold and the eyes of sapphires and diamonds. The cost: £43,000.00 making it the world's most expensive available Teddy Bear. The highest price ever paid for a single Teddy Bear was $193,000.00 USD.

What is the Most Expensive Book in the World?

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Paying £4,621,500 ($7.53 million U.S.) for a first edition of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, American-born billionaire Sir Paul Getty now owns his life's dream. Christie's sold the red-leather-bound classic to Getty's representative from a London book dealer July 8. The volume's record price exceeded the previous high of $5.3 million paid at auction in 1987 for a 1455 Gutenberg Bible.

What is the Most Expensive Piece of Food Art?

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The most gorgeous and the most expensive cake is the Diamond fruit Cake, costing $1.65 million. This cake, which is scheduled to be displayed on Friday, is created by a Tokyo pastry chef. Six months of incredible thinking for that incredible design and one month to materialise it, this cake is studded with 223 small diamonds and the rest of the cake is edible. This cake is up for sale on Christmas. It is not only the most expensive cake in the world, I bet it is also the most expensive food in the world. Apart from the 223 diamonds, I guess what the ingredients might be, whatever it is it must be as rich and luscious as the diamonds.

Who has the Largest Ball-Point Pen Collection in the world?

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Angelika Unverhau's ball-point pen collection. Angelika Unverhau from Dinslaken (Germany) has collected more than 220,000 ball-point pens (excluding duplicates) from 146 countries. She has been collecting unusual pens since childhood, but decided to take her hobby more seriously in 1990. She founded a club for ball-point pen collectors who meet twice a year to trade pens.