What is the World's Best Selling Book Reaches 100m Mark?

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In November 2003, Guinness World Records celebrated the publication of its 100 millionth copy! This confirms that, excluding non-copyright works such as the Bible and the Koran, the definitive book of world records is the world's best selling book. It was first published in October 1955 by Guinness Superlatives, a subsidiary of Arthur Guinness Son Co. (Park Royal) Ltd and has since gone global, selling in some 37 languages.Comparatively, the five Harry Potter books to date have sold over 100 million copies, and Mao Tse-Tung's Little Red Book was sold or given away to around 900 million.

What is the Most Valuable Comic in the World?

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In November 2001, the most valuable comic in the world is a 1939 'Pay Copy' of Marvel Comics #1 which was sold to Jay Parrino's The Mint for $350,000 (£240,533).

What is the Most Valuable Atlas in the World?

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A version of Ptolemy's Cosmographia, dating from 1492, was sold for $1,925,000 at Sotheby's, New York City, USA, on January 31, 1990. Ptolemy not only envisioned the world as round but invented and set upon it lines of longitude and latitude. Every site was then given identifying coordinates. This single treatise remained the standard work on geographical theory throughout the Middle Ages.

What is the Largest Bookshop in the World?

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The largest individual bookstore in the world is the Barnes & Noble Bookstore at 105 Fifth Avenue at 18th Street, New York City, USA. It covers 14,330 sq m (154,250 sq ft) and has 20.7 km (12.87 miles) of shelving.

What is the Smallest Nightclub in the World?

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In August 1998, four British friends, Sam Williamson, Keith Packer, Francis Clarke, and Kevin Wright created a tiny disco sensation. The Miniscule Of Sound, the world's smallest nightclub, is 2.4 m (8 ft) long, 1.2 m (4 ft) wide, and 2.4 m (8 ft) high - and every clubber on earth is dying to get past the doorman! Complete with DJ, full sound system, smoke machine, and tiny 2 m² dance floor, The Miniscule Of Sound is an intense disco experience. The maximum capacity is 14 people, including DJ, and the music is a mix of 1970s disco, techno, drum and bass, reggae, and rock.

What is the Smallest Kite Flown in the World?

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A kite built by Nobuhiko Yoshizuni of Kyoto, Japan, measured 10 x 8 mm (0.04 x 0.03 in), and was flown at the Seattle Cherry Blossom and Japanese Cultural Festival, in Washington, USA, on April 18, 1998. Nobuhiko Yoshizuni has been building and designing kites throughout his life and is world-renowned master kite-maker. He is a member of the Kyoto Kite Association and of the International Friends of Small Kites organization.

What is the Smallest Guitar in the World?

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A guitar carved from a block of silicon and based on a Fender Stratocaster measured 10 micrometers long - 1/20 of the thickness of human hair. Each string was 0.05 mm (1/500 in) thick, equivalent to 100 atoms laid end to end. Made in order to demonstrate a new technology that could be used in fiber optics, displays and sensors. The strings on the guitar can be plucked with the right instruments, but produce a sound frequency which is too high to be heard by the human ear.