Top 100 Countries and Their Groundbreaking Inventions

1. United States: Internet
2. China: Paper
3. Japan: Video Game Consoles
4. Germany: Automobile
5. India: Cataract Surgery
6. United Kingdom: Radar
7. France: Bicycle
8. Italy: Pizza
9. Brazil: Rubber Extraction
10. Canada: IMAX
11. Russia: Sputnik
12. South Korea: OLED Displays
13. Australia: Wi-Fi
14. Mexico: Chocolate
15. Spain: Microscopy
16. Sweden: Safety Match
17. Netherlands: Shipping Containers
18. Saudi Arabia: Islamic Architecture
19. Argentina: Ballpoint Pen
20. Switzerland: ⌚️ Swiss Watch
21. Turkey: Tulip Cultivation
22. Poland: Enigma Code-Breaking
23. Indonesia: Outrigger Canoe
24. South Africa: Pratley Putty
25. Thailand: Thai Massage Techniques
26. Nigeria: Yoruba Masks
27. Malaysia: Butterfly Farming
28. Philippines: Jeepney Transportation
29. Egypt: ⛴ Pyramids Construction
30. Belgium: French Fries
31. Pakistan: Hepatitis C Treatment
32. UAE: Tallest Buildings
33. Vietnam: ️ Egg Coffee
34. Bangladesh: Bangladeshi Garments
35. Chile: Astronomy Innovations
36. Colombia: ☕ Coffee Cultivation Techniques
37. Peru: 🏔 Terrace Farming
38. Norway: Viking Longships
39. Singapore: E-Payments
40. Hungary: Rubik’s Cube
41. Israel: Iron Dome
42. Austria: Classical Music
43. Romania: Helicopter
44. Czech Republic: Puppetry
45. Kenya: Mpesa Mobile Banking
46. Portugal: Navigational Maps
47. New Zealand: Dairy Innovations
48. Iran: Persian Rugs
49. Ukraine: Rocket Engines
50. Venezuela: Hallaca
51. Puerto Rico: Sugar Processing
52. Greece: Democracy
53. Iraq: Ancient Ziggurats
54. Ireland: Irish Fiddle
55. Serbia: Tesla Coil
56. Bulgaria: 🏔 Yogurt Cultivation
57. Albania: 🏔 Bunkers
58. Vatican City: ⛪️ Sistine Chapel
59. Bahrain: 🏝 Pearl Diving
60. Morocco: Minarets
61. Sri Lanka: Ceylon Tea
62. Estonia: Skype
63. Lithuania: Laser Technologies
64. Latvia: 🛠 Mechanized Agriculture
65. Tunisia: Fortress Construction
66. Slovakia: Screw Propeller

Meet Nicole Smith-Ludvik, the woman who stood atop the tallest building in the world, Burj Khalifa (828m) for an Emirates Airlines ad

List of tallest people:

Men

Robert Wadlow: 272 cm
John Rogan: 267 cm
John Carroll: 264 cm
Willie Camper: 262 cm
Franz Winkelmeier: 258 cm
Leonid Stadnyk: 258 cm
Pornchai Saosri: 257 cm
Hô Vān Trung: 257 cm

Women

Trijntje Keever: 255 cm
Ella Ewing: 254 cm
Zeng Jinlian: 248 cm
Anna Bates: 242 cm
Jane Bunford: 241 cm
Abeltje: 240 cm
Siddiqa Parveen: 233 cm
Mulia: 233 cm

This list may not be exhaustive

It took 28 years to build this massive statue of the Hindu god Vishnu riding a mythical bird.

Garuda Wisnu Kencana in Kuta Selatan, Bali, is Indonesia's tallest statue.

Spirituality was at the heart of Stonehenge from start. Neolithic and Bronze Age people put an enormous effort into building this extraordinary structure, despite the fact that it serves no known practical function. Many theories have been put forward over the years about the purpose of Stonehenge. But what does the evidence suggest that it may have been used for?

The sarsen stones, put up in at the centre of the site in about 2500 BC, were carefully placed to line up with the movements of the sun. If you were to stand in the middle of the stone circle on Midsummer’s Day, you would see the sun rise just to the left of the Heel Stone, an outlying stone north-east of the circle. Archaeologists have found a large stone hole to the left of the Heel Stone which may have held a partner stone: if so, the two stones would have framed the sunrise.

On Midwinter’s Day, the sun would originally have set between the two uprights of the tallest trilithon (two upright stones capped by a horizontal lintel). It would have dropped down over the Altar Stone, a sandstone block which was placed across the solstice axis. Today, this effect has been lost because half of the trilithon has fallen. But a laser survey of Stonehenge has shown that the stones that framed the solstice axis were the most carefully shaped, with vertical sides that framed the movement of the sun.

The whole layout of Stonehenge is therefore designed in relation to the solstices, which are the extreme limits of the sun’s movement. The solstice axis is also marked by the Station Stones, which are placed at the corners of a rectangle around the edge of the surrounding circular ditch. The short sides of the rectangle are parallel to the main alignment at Stonehenge.

The late Neolithic monument known as the Avenue, made up of parallel banks and ditches, links Stonehenge to the nearby river Avon. And it is also linked to the movements of the sun – its final, straight stretch close to Stonehenge is aligned on the north-east to south-west solar axis.

Recent excavations across the Avenue have found that the earthworks appear to follow the line of some ridges, with gullies between them (known as periglacial stripes). These are natural features created by glaciation. But it’s possible that Neolithic people noticed that the ridges and gullies lined up with the solstice, and may have chosen to build Stonehenge here as a result.

Marking the movements of the sun was clearly important to the people who built Stonehenge, as they went to such great lengths to align the monument with them. But we have few clues as to what they did here. Excavations show that the area within the stone circle seems to have been kept clean of everyday debris, and we can imagine that people came here to celebrate midsummer and midwinter.

The people who built Stonehenge were farmers, herders and pastoralists. The changing seasons would have been of immense significance to them, both practically – the seasons dictated what they could grow and when – and also probably spiritually. So Stonehenge is likely to have been much more than a calendar. Midsummer and midwinter may have been important times of year to remember the dead or to worship a solar deity.

Tallest buildings in the world, 2024:

Burj Khalifa (828 m)
Merdeka 118 (678.9 m)
Shanghai Tower (632 m)
Makkah Royal Clock Tower (601 m)
Ping An Finance Center (599.1 m)
Lotte World Tower (554.5 m)
One World Trade Center (541.3 m)
Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre (530 m)
Tianjin CTF Finance Centre (530 m)
CITIC Tower (527.7 m)

Source: CTBUH

DEVELOPING: Japan is building an ‘elevator to space’ for humans to experience what space looks like in person by 2025.

Obayashi Corporation, which built the Japan's tallest tower, plans to start building a space elevator in 2025 with the aim of it being operational by 2050.

That's the same year Japan hopes to achieve carbon neutrality. The construction process is expected to be done in several stages.

Olympus Mons(Mars)- The tallest mountain in the Solar System

On 15 May 2004, Emilio Minnicelli from Italy presented the tallest ever wig, modeled in the Piazza Maggiore, Bologna.

His creation measured 14.3 metres (46 ft 11 in) tall.