Smallest cell phone in the world
The Willcom WX06A model cell phone is currently considered the World’s Smallest Cell Phone. Measuring only 32 x 70 x 10.7 millimeters in size, this working phone only weighs 32 grams. The phone does have a one inch screen for viewing and requires a fold-out antenna for use. The phone screen is the same size as the average face of a watch. Due to its compact size, the WX06A does not have a camera. However, a spokesperson for the...
The smallest Bible in the world: Jerusalem nano Bible
The Jerusalem Nano Bible is considered to be the smallest Bible in the world. Contained on a silicone microchip, this version of the New Testament is about the size of a fingernail, if not a bit smaller. The microchip measures 4.56 millimeters, or 0.19 inches, in length and height. It is I so thin that it measures at 0.18 microns, or 0.00007 of an inch thick. The book contains all 27 chapters of the New Testament. The text can only be...
The smallest park in the world: Mill Ends Park
Mill Ends Park first obtained the designation as World’s Smallest Park in 1971. Located in Portland, Oregon, the park is two feet across and covers 462 square inches. This park is lovingly referred to as home to the only Leprechaun colony outside of Ireland. Created in 1948 by a local journalist who planted some flowers in the road median to cover up a hole that was left when a utility pole was not installed, the little park...
World’s smallest production automobile: Peel P50
It seems that modern vehicles are moving toward being more compact and eco-friendly. However, you may be surprised to learn that the smallest automobile was manufactured over 50 years ago. Between the years of 1962 and 1965, the Peel P50, a three-wheeled microcar, was produced by the Peel Manufacturing Company on the Isle of Man. At only 54 inches long and 39 inches wide, this vehicle still holds the standing record to this day....
World’s smallest human sculpture
Jonty Hurwitz, an artist from Chichester in England, recently gained his claim to fame by creating the smallest sculpture in recorded history, only to have his creation unintentionally destroyed moments after experts documented that his 1mm high sculpture of a female human form destroyed. After spending months laboring to shape and form the tiny figure, posed in a classical Greek athletic stance, photographers using special equipment...
World’s smallest known vertebrate: Paedophryne amauensis
World’s smallest vertebrate is a frog from Papua New Guinea. Known as the Paedophyrne amanuensis, this miniature frog was officially named and described in 2012. The paedophyrne amanuensis is on average only 7.7 millimeters long. This is .2 millimeters smaller than the last known smallest vertebrate. This frog lives in leaf litter in the tropical forest and was discovered near a very small village in Papua New Guinea. The frog,...
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