LENGTH of each side of the world’s largest Rubik’s Cube. It was assembled and put on display in a mall in Hong Kong earlier this year.
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8.2 feet
$12.2 million
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PRICE at auction of a tiny Leonardo da Vinci sketch of a bear. The drawing, thought to date to the early 1480s, is the size of a standard sticky note.
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120 hr, 2 min.
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DURATION of the world’s longest basketball game, held in New York in August. High school and college players subbed in and out of the continuous game to raise money for mental health causes.
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Text-to-Speech