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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.

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.