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• the Waterloo Vase is a massive marble urn, 15 feet (4.6 metres) high and weighing 15 tons (13.6 metric tons), which was commissioned by French leader Napoleon but ultimately became an ornament in the British monarch's Buckingham Palace Gardens?
• the tallest building in Tulsa, Oklahoma is the 667-foot (203 m) BOK Tower?
• the tallest building in Minneapolis, Minnesota is the 792-foot (241 m) IDS Tower (pictured)?
• the Heights of Buildings Act of 1910 restricts the height of buildings in Washington D.C. to 20 ft (6 m) taller than the width of the street they face?
• the original version of the Gettysburg Cyclorama (detail pictured), a cylindrical painting of almost 300 feet (91 m) in length, recently sold for a reported US$10 million?
• the peak of Mount Hikurangi (1620 metres) is the highest non-volcanic peak on the North Island of New Zealand?
• there have been at least fifteen deaths at the Welsh cave Porth yr Ogof in the last twenty years, all but one in the seven-metre-deep Resurgance Pool?
• the unusual configuration of the running track at Mike A. Myers Stadium in Austin, Texas – 84 m straights and 118 m curves – has garnered it a reputation as one of the fastest tracks in the world?
• the tallest of the Kelso Dunes in the Mojave Desert rises 200 metres above the surrounding terrain?
• the Flying Dragon is a lizard that has skin membranes which it uses to glide distances over 7 metres?
• the broadfish tapeworm is the longest tapeworm in humans, averaging ten metres long and that it can shed up to a million eggs a day?
• Will Jefferson is probably the tallest professional cricketer ever, at about 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) tall?
• the Tuggerah Lakes (pictured), located on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia, cover a total area of 77 square kilometres yet have an average depth of less than two metres?
• Neil Gardner holds the sixth-fastest recorded time for a Jamaican 400 m hurdler?
• Wyndham Halswelle was winner of the controversial 400-metre run at the 1908 Summer Olympics?
• Yoshioka-Kaitei Station, located 149.5 metres below sea level within the Seikan Tunnel, is the deepest underground station in Japan?
• the banded archerfish (pictured) is able to hit targets up to three metres away by shooting jets of water from its mouth?
• the genus Brachyplatystoma includes many large species of Amazonian catfish, including one which may reach about 3.6 metres (almost 12 feet) in length?
• Pachycheilosuchus, an Early Cretaceous crocodile relative, was less than a meter (3.3 ft) long and had an armored neck?
• Joseph Guillemot, winner of the 5000 m at the 1920 Olympics, was a pack-a-day smoker?