12. The strongest earthquake ever recorded
Morsel: The strongest earthquake ever recorded shook the Chilean city of Valdivia on 22nd May, 1960, with an enormous magnitude of 9.4-9.6 on the MMS.
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11. The longest novel
Morsel: Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past or In Search of Lost Time ) is the longest novel at 9,609,000 characters or roughly 1.3 million words.
10. Yuri Gagarin: The First of Us
Morsel: On 12th April, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first man to go into space and orbit the Earth.
9. Toasty Summer Mornings on the Surface of Venus
Morsel: Venus's surface has temperatures that are hot enough to melt lead.
8. The Age of All that is
Morsel: The current scientific estimation of the age of the universe is about 13.799 billion years.
6. The longest word without vowels
Morsel: Twyndyllyngs, which means ‘twins’, is the longest word in English without vowels if obsolete words are considered.