| City with most skyscrappers | Hong Kong | ||
| Most expensive building | Abraj Al Bait, Mecca, Saudi Arabia | ||
| Most remote man-made object | Voyager 1 | ||
| Fastest spacecraft | Parker Solar Probe (532,000 km/h) | ||
| Fastest boat | Spirit of Australia (511 km/h) | ||
| Human-piloted aircraft | North American X-15 (7,270 km/h) | ||
| Fastest train | SCMaglev of Japan (603 km/h) | ||
| Fastest land vehicle | ThrustSSC (1,228 km/h) | ||
| Nearest star to the Sun | Proxima Centauri (4.25 light-years) | ||
| First spacecraft to orbit an asteroid | Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous – Shoemaker (NEAR Shoemaker) orbited Eros | ||
| First spacecraft to land on an asteroid | Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous – Shoemaker (NEAR Shoemaker) on Eros | ||
| First spacecraft to land and return to Earth from an asteroid | Hayabusa on 25143 Itokawa | ||
| Smallest asteroid ever photographed and visited by a spacecraft | 25143 Itokawa | ||
| First human to travel into space | Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin of USSR in Vostok 7 on 12 April 1961 | ||
| Hottest planet in our Solar System | Venus has the hottest surface of any planet in the Solar System, with a mean temperature of 464 °C (867 °F) | ||
| Largest planet in our Solar System with no magnetic field | Venus | ||
| Largest planet in our Solar System without a moon | Venus | ||
| Planet with longest day | Venus (243.16 Earth days) | ||
| Brightest planet seen from Earth | Venus (about 80% of sunlight is bounced back) | ||
| Planet with thickest atmosphere | Venus | ||
| First spacecraft to orbit a comet | Rosetta orbited 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko | ||
| First lander to crash-land on a comet | Deep Impact's impactor vehicle on Tempel 1 | ||
| First lander to soft-land on a comet | Philae (Rosetta's lander) on 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko | ||
| First song to be beamed into deep space | 'Across the Universe' by Beatles | ||
| First successful interplanetary mission | Mariner 2 to Venus | ||
| Planet in our Solar System with the slowest rotation | Venus (243 earth days) | ||
| First commercial filmed in space | Tnuva milk commercial for Israeli milk company | ||
| First living creature to go to space | A dog named Laika (Laika means “bark”) on board Sputnik 2 (November 3, 1957) | ||
| Largest single cave | Hang Son Đoòng (means "Mountain River Cave") of Vietnam is the world's largest single cave passage. | ||
| Country with the highest percentage of nuclear power use | France (about 70% of its electricity from nuclear energy) | ||
| first commercial nuclear power station | Calder Hall at Windscale, England (17 October 1956) | ||
| Most valuable man-made item by weight | British Guiana 1c magenta stamp | ||
| Most famous and valuable stamp | British Guiana 1c magenta stamp | ||
| Rarest stamp | British Guiana 1c magenta stamp | ||
| Oldest operating bookshop | Bertrand bookshop in Lisbon, Portugal (1732) | ||
| largest animal | blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) | ||
| largest fish | whale shark (Rhincodon typus) | ||
| largest freshwater fish | beluga sturgeon | ||
| Most widely trafficked mammal in the world | Pangolin | ||
| Largest desert city | Cairo, Egypt | ||
| First Peace Laureates | Henry Dunant of Switzerland for being a principal founder of the Red Cross and Frederic Passy of France for organizing the first Universal Peace Congress | ||
| First female Peace Laureate | Bertha von Suttner of Austria for her novel 'Lay Down Your Arms' (1889) and for assisting Alfred Nobel in founding the Peace Prize | ||
