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The three-meter tall amethyst geode - a hollow rock filled with amethyst crystals - is the main attraction at the Crystal Caves at Atherton, southwest of Cairns. But it's now missing a bit after a tourist broke off a chunk of crystals the size of a tennis ball in a brazen act of theft and vandalism. [Source]
Bryan Berg is a Guinness World Record holder for card stacking and architect of the iconic Radcliffe Camera building. Bryan has been creating wonderful sculptures using playing cards. He held the Guinness World Record for the tallest house of freestanding Playing cards since 1992. He has been commissioned to break his own record on more than ten occasions, and has succeeded in every challenge to set a new record. [Source]
He Pingping (July 13, 1988 – March 13, 2010) was a Chinese citizen and, according to the Guinness World Records, the world's shortest man who was able to walk. In January 2007, He was invited to take part on a television program in Tokyo, Japan. His home of Inner Mongolia is also home to Bao Xishun, who at 2.36 meters tall was recognized by Guinness as the world's tallest man until September 2009. He was admitted to a hospital on 3 March 2010 in Rome, after complaining of chest pains. He had been filming Lo show dei record. He died on March 13, 2010, at the age of twenty-one of heart complications. [Wiki]
Eiffel Tower Erected in 1889 as the entrance arch to the 1889 World's Fair, it has become both a global cultural icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world. The tower stands 320 metres (1,050 ft) tall, about the same height as an 81-storey building. [Wiki]

According to new researches, Scientists have discovered a fish living in forest swamps on the Indonesian island of Sumatra that is hold the record for worlds smallest fish. Paedocypris progenetica is the scientific name for these tiny creatures and they are believed to be the smallest known species of fish and vertebrate in the world. The tiny fish Paedocypris Progenetica was measured at just 7.9 mm in length and average weight is from 4 to 5 mg.

Meet Cupcake,a female long-haired chihuahua.She is World Record holder.She is the world's smallest service dog ,measuring just 15.87 (6.25 in) in height.
Cupcake's owner Angela Bain (Moorestown, New Jersey, USA).