The fastest elevators in the world : Taipei 101's high speed lifts, which travel at 17m per second
9

The world's tallest building : Taipei 101 at 509m tall   18

The world's largest proposed building : Burj Dubai in Dubai, UAE, expected to be completed in 2008, will be 800m tall   18

Price of a new Triumph Rocket III motorcycle in Taiwan : NT$1,220,000   5

The size of the engine on this mad machine : 2294cc   5

The largest engine size for a motorcycle in Taiwan that can be legally driven without a special driver's license : 150cc

Rolling Stone magazine's opinion about Canadian 80's rock band Triumph according to one review : They were "mutant hoseheads"   1

The only homosexual comic book character with the ability to kill Superman : Triumph   2

His method : Draining all of the "solar energy" from Superman's cells   2

The reason Triumph's sexual orientation was never revealed in the comic : The writers "didn't have an appropriate storyline to deal sensitively with that issue"   2

The population of Triumph, Idaho, USA : approximately 350   6

The tourism slogan of Idaho, USA : "Great potatoes, tasty destinations"   6

Record recently attained by Claudio Paulo Pinto : best 'eye popper' in Brazil with a 7mm 'pop'. 7

Distance Pinto claims he can bulge his eyeballs out of their sockets : approximately 11.5mm   7

Current 'eyeball popping' world record : 11mm, held by Kim Goodman of Chicago, U.S.A.   7

The amount of money that Mark Giorgio chased over the edge of a bridge (he dropped it) in Palmetto, U.S.A. : $20   8

The distance he fell : 50ft into the Manatee River   8

Distance he swam to recover the bill : approximately 100 yards   8

His comment to the local newspaper about the incident : "I got my money back, hell yeah!"   8

World record for most kicks to one's own head in one minute : 42, held by Michael Lloyd of Midland, Texas, USA   9

World record for highest fall survived without a parachute : 10,160 meters, held by Vesna Vulovic 10

Name of a new energy drink manufactured by Redux Beverages : Cocaine

Amount of cocaine in the beverage : None

Amount of caffeine : 280 milligrams

Reaction of Dr. Charles O'Brien to the drink : "Just a bad idea and...a very bad name"

World Record for fastest time to drink one liter of beer : 1.3 seconds by Peter Dowdesell in Carlise, PA, USA   12

World Record for Farthest Spaghetti Nasal Ejection : 19cm held by Kevin Cole of Carlsbad, New Mexico, USA   13

Fastest text message ever : 160 character text in 43.24 seconds held by Kimberly Yeo of Singapore   14

The 160 character phrase used in most speed text messaging contests : "The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human." 14

Number of arithmetic world records broken by three Taiwanese siblings aged 8 to 13 years old in Kaohsiung in December, 2000 : 4   16

Length of time it took 13-year-old Wang Chia-lu to multiply two 8-digit figures correctly : 25.08 seconds   16

Length of time it took him to multiply two 13-digit figures correctly : 26.51 seconds   16

Length of time it took 12-year-old Wang Yi-hui to add two 100 single-digit numbers : 18.98 seconds   16

Length of time it took 8-year-old Wang Hui-yin to calculate the square root of a six-digit number : 10.48 seconds (more than 50 seconds faster than the previous record of 63.8 seconds)   16

 

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2 Wikipedia -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_%28comics%29

3 Goodcomics.com -- http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.co
m/2005/11/24/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-26

4 NY Times -- http://topics.nytimes.com/top
/reference/timestopics/people/s/
picabo_street/index.html?s=oldest&

5 Triumph.co.uk -- http://www.triumphtaiwan.com
/06-bike/rocket-class.html

6 Open-site.org -- http://open-site.org/Regional/North_America/United_States/Idaho/

7 Yahoo! News -- http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/2006091
8/ap_on_fe_st/eye_popping_brazilian

8 AOL News -- http://news.aol.com/strange/story/_a/man-jumps-off-
bridge-after- 20-bill/n20060919235309990003

9 Wierdspot.com -- http://www.weirdspot.
com/index.php/weblog/C1/P8/

10 Wierdspot.com -- http://www.weirdspot.c
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11 AOL News -- http://articles.news.aol.com/business/_a
/the-ultimate-energy-drink-cocaine/20060919094109990001

12 Beerrecord.com -- http://www.beerrecord.com/

13 Guiness Book of World Records -- http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content
_pages/record.asp?recordid=52781

14 - The Guardian Online http://www.guardian.co.uk/mobile
/article/0,2763,1249512,00.html

15 Guiness Book of World Records -- http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content
_pages/record.asp?recordid=54654

16 Taiwan Government Information Office -- http://th.gio.gov.tw/show.cfm?news_id=1349

17 Newsfox.com-- http://www.newsfox.com/pte.mc?pte=041217019

18 About.com -- http://architecture.about.com/library/bltall.htm